There has been a further twist in plans for the Town Hall at Campbell Town, after an application was lodged for the building to be listed on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.
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An application was lodged earlier this week with the Tasmanian Heritage Council despite the Northern Midlands Council voting to sell the facility at their July meeting.
Heritage listing is judged against eight criteria including whether the building has a strong association with a particular community and whether it is important in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics.
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A resolution is likely to be months away because if the building does meet one of the criteria, it will to a 60-day public submission period.
The Heritage Council decision can be appealed to the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal.
The Town Hall has already been to RMPAT this year, where Northern Midlands Council asked their original decision to sell the Town Hall be set aside.
That allowed for the council to vote in a public session to sell the Town Hall again during their July meeting, where they cited maintenance costs as an issue.
"If the representors are so excited about it, we would welcome a bid to buy it and do all of those things and they can take on the responsibility, council cannot," Councillor Jan Davis said at the meeting.
It was the second time this year the council had voted to sell the Town Hall after they voted to sell it during their March meeting in a closed session.
The facility has been touted as a potential regional arts and civic centre to help drive tourism to the area.
Maintaining the hall in public hands had drawn some public support after a petition to save the Town Hall garnered over 200 signatures this year.
However, data from the council indicated the town hall was used for just 102.5 hours during January to May of this year.
That number is inflated by the state election which accounted for 46 hours of use when the Town Hall operated as a polling booth.
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