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Which option best describes your support for the North Head Sanctuary Draft Master Plan?
Natural values
First Nations values of place
Military Heritage values
Community values and use
Main entrance reconfiguration
Restoration of the main barracks building to bring back into use
Consolidation of Restoration Workshop and Makers Place
Creation of a walking place with shared access
Habitat and ecological rehabilitation
First Nations cultural space
Ecology and environmental centre
Protect and enhance existing walking tracks and lookouts through improved signage and wayfinding
Relocation of shed buildings to create new public domain and defence of nation interpretation space
Increase the profile of Australia's Memorial Walk and public access to the gun emplacements by creation of loop path and enhanced interpretation
Enhance interpretation of Third Quarantine Cemetery
Reconfigure public domain to improve pedestrian safety at North Fort entry off Scenic Drive
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Even at this conceptual stage of the plan, I feel that the Shelly Beach to the Barracks Precinct has also been overlooked in the proposed reconfiguration of the Main Site Entry (page 21), as a crucial point of entry.
It IS faintly marked in figure 23, but it appears not to otherwise feature in the concept maps and drawings, particularly where it would cross the proposed new entry road to the northern car park.
The Trust put considerable resources into building the metal-mesh track, from a point opposite the Gatehouse, to Bluefish Road to link with the NPWS track to Shelly Beach.. Both the Trust and the NPWS sections pass through significant displays of wildflowers and other native flora (with spectacular views to the Central Coast) and add to the WW2 story of North Head with direct access to two anti-aircraft emplacements.
The track up from Shelly Beach to the Barracks Precinct is arguably still the most popular way for walkers to 'discover' North Head Sanctuary. Certainly most visitors to the Visitor Centre, when it was located in the eastern end of the Gatehouse, had walked in that way.
On a separate issue, the site of the wooden military barracks, that existed until the early 1950s on the northern side of the wall at North Fort (and on each side of the central road), should be marked and interpreted appropriately. During WW2, these barracks housed the North Fort gunners as well as members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) who served in the underground plotting room and in the observation posts.
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