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City of Sydney - Civic Survey, 1938-1950

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City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972

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Unique IDAS-0801Start date1st January 1949End date1st January 1949FormatMapDescriptionOn 1 January 1949 the boundaries of the City of Sydney expanded to take in the neighbouring municipal councils of Glebe, Darlington, Newtown, Erskineville, Alexandria, Waterloo, Redfern and Paddington. This expansion took place in accordance with provisions in the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948. To effectively manage the enlarged area, and also to come to grips with new town planning responsibilities given to local government after 1945, the City of Sydney embarked on a project to make a detailed map of the whole area within the new boundaries. The City commissioned an aerial photogrammetric survey, which was flown on 15 December 1949 at 4800 feet by Adastra Photography. Using the aerial photographs as a basis, the staff of the City Building Surveyor’s department prepared a set of 27 detail sheets, plus a master sheet. Work was completed by about 1955. The detail sheets were regarded as a working document rather than a definitive plan of the City at a moment in time. As details on the ground changed, the corresponding detail sheet was redrawn to reflect this. Changes of land use, road realignments and new features were filled in, and previous details erased from the map. This process largely continued until the early 1970s. The result of this process is that the detail sheets, completed during the years 1949-1955, in fact show the City as it was by about 1949-1972.
Relationship legacy dataCREATED BY: City Architect and Building Surveyors Department II AG-0016 (01/01/1936 to 01/01/1971) PRECEDED BY: Civic Survey AS-1041 (c. 01/01/1949) RELATED TO: Surveying AY-46 (01/01/1949) RELATED TO: Planning for public spaces AY-31 (01/01/1949) RELATED TO: Strategic town planning AY-30 (01/01/1949) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 9 - Glebe

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 8 - Harold Park

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 7 - Sydney East

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 6 - CBD

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 5 - Pyrmont

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 4 - Glebe Point

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 3 - Farm Cove

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 27 - Rosebery

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 26 - Gardiners Rd

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 25 - Sheas Creek

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 24 - Zetland

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 23 - Alexandria

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 22 - St Peters

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 21 - Centennial Park

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 20 - Waterloo

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 2 - Sydney Cove

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 19 - Erskineville

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 18 - Newtown

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 17 - Hargrave St

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 16 - Moore Park

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 15 - Surry Hills

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 14 - University

City of Sydney - Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets, 1949-1972: Sheet 13 - Camperdown

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City Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets - CSA025369

City Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets - CSA025368

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City of Sydney - Aerial Photographic Survey, 1949

Negatives of City Building Surveyor's Detail Sheets

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Source system ID801System of arrangementBy sheet numberCopiesRefer to smaller versions in reading room

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Disposal statusArchived

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Legacy dataRegistered by: Renato Perdon
Registered date: 13/05/1994
Amendments: Mark Stevens, 28/8/2008 - replaced administrative note.
Last amendment date: 28/08/2008
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System of arrangements: By sheet number
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UpdatedDate: 28/08/2008
UpdatedUser: Aug 28 2008 1:04PM

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On 1 January 1949 the boundaries of the City of Sydney expanded to take in the neighbouring municipal councils of Glebe, Darlington, Newtown, Erskineville, Alexandria, Waterloo, Redfern and Paddington. This expansion took place in accordance with provisions in the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948. The effect was to give the City responsibility for a ring of adjacent suburbs containing mostly dilapidated residential and industrial properties.

To effectively manage the enlarged area, and also to come to grips with new town planning responsibilities given to local government after 1945, the City of Sydney embarked on a project to make a detailed map of the whole area within the new boundaries. The City commissioned an aerial photogrammetric survey, which was flown on 15 December 1949 at 4800 feet by Adastra Photography.

Using the aerial photographs as a basis, the staff of the City Building Surveyor’s department prepared a set of 27 detail sheets, plus a master sheet. Retired staff who worked on the project tell us that the work was completed by about 1955.

The plans were widely copied for use throughout the Council over the following years. The original set appears to have been produced in large sheets (approx modern AO size) at a scale of 2 chains to the inch, but smaller sets at 5 chains to the inch were also used. Several of these smaller scale sets survive in the City of Sydney Archives, but only one incomplete full scale set, and it does not seem to be a first-generation copy. Some of the smaller sets have been used for various town planning purposes and are overlaid with zoning and road improvement scheme information.

The detail sheets were regarded as a working document rather than a definitive plan of the City at a moment in time. As details on the ground changed, the corresponding detail sheet was redrawn to reflect this. Changes of land use, road realignments and new features were filled in, and previous details erased from the map. This process continued until the early 1970s, except that for areas removed from City control in 1968 (Paddington, Glebe and part of Newtown) the updating stopped at that point.

The result of this process is that the detail sheets, completed during the years 1949-1955, in fact show the City as it was by about 1968-1972. As far as we know, only last-generation copies have survived.

An important component of these maps is the new street numbers assigned to properties located on streets that extend through two or three abolished municipalities. For example prior to 1949, Australia Street had two sets of property numbers, one for properties found within the Newtown Municipality and the other for properties found within the Camperdown area of the City. Since the whole stretch of Australia Street became part of the City, renumbering took place and this is reflected in the detail maps. Hence, Australia Street was renumbered from Parramatta Road down to its end at King St Newtown.

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Start Date: 01/01/1949
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End Date: None

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Source systemBusiness operation system (BOS); Archives investigatorPreceding seriesCity of Sydney - Civic Survey, 1938-1950Creating agenciesCity Architect and Building Surveyor's Department IIRelated activitiesStrategic town planningPlanning for public spacesSurveying

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