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House RB.002 for Lend Lease Homes Pty. Ltd., 6 Glen Tower Drive. Glen Waverley. Appletree Hill estate, designed by Robin Boyd. 1966.
House RB.002 for Lend Lease Homes Pty. Ltd., 6 Glen Tower Drive. Glen Waverley. Appletree Hill estate, designed by Robin Boyd. 1966.

In 1965 Lend Lease Homes commissioned Robin Boyd to design six brick veneer houses. They were built as a display village at Appletree Hill, 'an estate planned to harmonise without light poles and front fencing'. Prices ranged from $17,900 to $21,000. Boyd's houses had the advantage of surrounding mature trees. In his book The Australian Ugliness, he had complained about both 'arboriphobia' or the cutting down of trees to make way for housing, and the pollarding of street trees to prevent interference with electricity and phone wires, hence the under grounding of services to Boyd's houses.

The display homes were sold and the rest of the land was sold to private individuals 'the Robin Boyd concept being adopted by the people who have built there'. Ann Gartner has argued that the houses for Lend Lease were a financial failure. They do not seem to have been a financial failure for those who bought them. Houses on Appletee Hill appear to have been selling at something of a premium by 1971, with prices up to $30,000. In that year new four bedroom homes with two bathrooms, heating, polished floors, rotary hoed gardens and concrete drives at Wheelers Hill could be bought for $22,000. Possibly the Boyd designs were ahead of their time and their popularity (and value) took a while to establish.

Text source: Monash City Heritage.

See more pictures of locale as originally built at SLV and recently onGoogle Maps and note the extensive modifications.

Author / Creator: Peter Wille 1931-1971 photographer.
Contributor(s): Robin Boyd 1919-1971 architect.

Copyright status: This work is in copyright
Conditions of use: Use of this work allowed provided the creator and SLV acknowledged.

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Accession no: H91.244/701
Series / Collection: Peter Wille collection of architectural slides

Link to online item:
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/321910

Link to this record:
search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1695450

Taken on: May 21, 2019
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House RB.002 for Lend Lease Homes Pty. Ltd., 6 Glen Tower Drive. Glen Waverley. Appletree Hill estate, designed by Robin Boyd. 1966.

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