Press Release
Immediate Use
Eden Albert Community Board
29th April 2009
Eden Albert Community Board delivers another heritage project
Eden Albert Ward Councillor Glenda Fryer today welcomed news of installation of footpath plaques outside historic
buildings in Mount Eden Village that tell local passers-by stories and history of the building.
“The project took a long time in gestation, but Council has now got the prototype right. We will now plan to roll out
similar historic signage in Kingsland, Eden Valley, Sandringham, and Balmoral village centres. Once a heritage
assessment is done of the Mount Albert shops, plaques will be placed there as well”, says Mrs Fryer.
Mrs Fryer warns that “These are the sorts of projects that may well disappear when a super-city takes more of a
commercial approach to everything it does. Local community benefits such as these may be lost from the super-city
agenda, so it’s a race against time to get these local projects completed.”
She concludes, “Locals like to see and learn about the community’s early beginnings, and its rich sense of place. I felt
these plaques was a tangible way of telling the stories of Mount Eden, stories that provide a rich sense of place for
the village.”
Council is currently scoping sites where the plaques will be, which will be installed once the sites are approved. It is
expected that the plaques will be installed over the next few weeks.
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