TRRRA has established a Facebook page with the intention of providing the Tamworth regional residents access to information about Ray Walsh House and its significance to the recent history of Tamworth.
TRC has some 600 employees, where the bulk of the indoor staff could be comfortably accommodated in a refurbished RWH.
Tender awarded for asbestos remediation of Tamworth council building The remediation of the abestos-contaminated former Tamworth Regional Council building is set to get underway, with
Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall Ray Walsh House was designed by Peddle, Thorp and Walker Architects, (PTW Architects) who also designed the Tamworth War Memorial
S O S | Another building under threat of demolition. Ray Walsh House is a stunning Brutalist building in country NSW and the former offices
In 1976, PTW Architects designed the Peel Cunningham County Council Chambers, Tamworth. A PTW Architects Brutalist project completed in 1976 to house the council offices,
It was reported that Ray Walsh House (RWH) would have $2 million spent on removal of all the internal walls and floor coverings in TRC business papers. TRC in their media release of 26 February said that $1 million had been spent on this task.
Future of Ray Walsh House unknown It’s been lying vacant for more than a year, after asbestos was discovered in the building. Now, Tamworth residents
The future of Ray Walsh House is still undecided more than a year and a half since it was vacated due to a problem with asbestos.
Now the council is asking the state government for financial assistance as it “weighs up” its options for the building, which has served as council headquarters since it was purchased in the 1990s.
Council is remediating the site in stages.
Last year council spent about $1 million on stage one, which included removing all materials from below ceiling height so that asbestos in the ceiling cavity remained intact.
Ray Walsh House (RWH) has had $2 million spent on removal of all the internal walls and floor coverings. We are told by a reliable informant that the asbestos lagging around the air conditioning above the false ceilings is still in place. We have also been told that all of the fittings in the Tamworth Regional Council (TRC) Chambers and meeting room on the fourth floor, many being historical artefacts, have been removed and disposed of as waste, as have all of the floor coverings throughout the building. Essentially the interior of RWH has been gutted. The source of the original asbestos issue does not appear to have been addressed.
Design writer and co-founder of Good Habitat and the Australian Design Unit, Heidi Dokulil has released a new book that investigates the contentious architectural genre of brutalism in Sydney, its migration from Europe to Australia, and its uncertain future.
TRRRA is a not for profit incorporated association formed in 2014. TRRRA’s object is to support residents and ratepayers of the Tamworth Regional Council area with regional and local government issues. TRRRA operates on the principle ‘Unity is Strength” and the issues TRRRA supports are as broad and varied as the area it encompasses.
A huge thanks to our two professional photographers Andrew Pearson from Tamworth and Peter (Rick) Dwyer from Barraba for their stunning contributions.
Tamworth Regional Residents and Ratepayers Association Inc (TRRRA) is a not for profit incorporated association formed in 2014. TRRRA’s object is to support residents and ratepayers of the Tamworth Regional Council area with regional and local government issues. TRRRA operates on the principle “Unity is Strength” and the issues TRRRA supports are as broad and varied as the area it encompasses.