Hillview Gardens
It should NOT be sold off by the NSW Government
FOKE
Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment
Welcome to FOKE
Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment is a community group dedicated to the conservation and protection of Ku-ring-gai’s built and natural environment. On behalf of residents we work for the maintenance of Ku-ring-gai’s built and natural heritage and the enhancement of its existing character and amenity.
Hillview’s Heritage Significance
The Hillview Heritage Conservation Area displays a layering of history of the North Shore.
Hillview Timeline
The traditional custodians of the area now known as Turramurra are the Darramurragal people (also spelled Tarramerragal or Darramuragal). The name "Turramurra" itself is derived from this clan's name, meaning "high hill" or "big hill", and their land traditionally stretched along the eastern side of the Lane Cove River.
Hillview Artist – George Collingridge
George Alphonse Collingridge de Tourcey (1847-1931), artist and historian, sketched Ivan Auprince home at Hillview and its views to Sydney
Hillview is also a Heritage Conservation Area
The Hillview Conservation Area is historically significant as a substantially intact group of buildings constructed within a short period of time demonstrating the history of Turramurra.
Hillview’s Plaques, Memorials & Art
Generations have valued Hillview. We now need to keep it for future generations
Hillview & Turramurra’s History
Read what the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society has to say about Hillview
Hillview’s ecotourism potential
Hillview has viewlines to Sheldon Forest - one of Sydney's rarest Blue Gum High Forests.
Hillview’s layered history
Read FOKE's 2015 letter highlighting the importance of Hillview Heritage Conservation Area
Hillview needed more than ever
Hillview once operated as a leader in community health. This is now needed more than ever.
Hillview Heritage Walk 2015
FOKE led a guided heritage walk to Hillview in 2015 - over a decade ago. It now has to fight to save its heritage.
Important dates
Time to register Iconic trees in your area of Ku-ring-gai!
If you want to protect the trees important to you, now is the time.
Ku-ring-gai Council is establishing an Iconic Tree register to help conserve our important trees.
The be eligible, a tree must be:
- Over 5 metres tall, or
- Have a trunk more than 15 cm wide at ground level
The trees are assessed on four key criteria:
- Contributing to the landscape character of your area, such as its prominence and canopy spread
- Its age and maturity. Older, mature trees are important to our history
- Social value, such as historical, community or cultural significance
- Rarity, distinctiveness and biodiversity value. Is it unusual or distinctive or provides exceptional habitat for wildlife?
The determining Panel will assess the trees based on these criteria with 20 trees to be recommended for inclusion each round.
The more information you can provide the better the chances that your recommendations will be registered as an Iconic Tree.
See here for more information on how to apply.
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Friends of Kuringgai Environment
(opens in a new tab)FOKE is a community group with a focus across the Ku-ring-gai area, defending our natural heritage and opposing inappropriate overdevelopment.
A reminder......Join FOKE at 'Rise Up Sydney' Rally organised by Doing Density Better for this Saturday 17 October at 2.00 pm Goddard Park Concord.Doing Density Better has formed in response to the destructive impact on local communities of recent NSW Government planning changes, including Transport Oriented Development rezonings, Low and Mid-Rise Housing provisions, and the State Significant Development approval pathway.These changes are too often producing housing outcomes that are neither affordable nor liveable — and in many cases resulting in a net loss of housing, particularly affordable studio and one-bedroom apartments.While additional housing and density are needed across Sydney, Doing Density Better believes the current mass rezonings are causing fear, insecurity and displacement, while eroding trust in the planning system. See less
SEE affordableforever.au/event On 9 October 2026, a group of volunteers from across Sydney will gather at Green Park with an OzHarvest food truck to hand out 600 free smashed avocado wraps and talk to the community about the urgent need to fix "affordable housing".CONFIRMED FOR THE OPENING MEDIA CALL:· Alex Greenwich MP — Member for Sydney· Jenny Leong MP — Member for Newtown· Mayor Ann Marie Kimber — Mayor of Mosman· Cr Yvonne Weldon AM — City of Sydney Councillor· Cr Harriet Price — Woollahra Councillor, Paddington WardFor years, smashed avocado has been used as a joke about why younger Australians struggle to afford housing. Affordable Forever is turning the smashed-avo cliché on its head to make a point: don't blame people's breakfast choices for housing unaffordability — it's time to fix the broken planning rules that are making housing affordability worse.
www.foke.org.au/oppose-ssd-lourdes-retirement-village/Please share and sign the petition Oppose Lourdes Retirement Village High Density Plans on a High bushfire Risk site in Killara
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An experienced architect talking about the State Government draft Edgecliff -Woollahra State led Rezoning plans
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