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Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. This is the reality of many homeowners living in a Sydney suburb that has begun sinking into the ground below.
Sharon and Peter Luhr bought an investment property in Spring Farm in to help fund their retirement but instead of boosting their funds, the home has been slowly draining their savings. With glass smashing and multiple cracks appearing over the house, the couple have been forced to reduce rent dramatically just to keep tenants.
The soft land means brand new homes have begun to crack and fall apart as the earth shifts below. Spring Farm, which is situated between Camden and Campbelltown, was built on a former chicken farm and large swathes of industrial estate. A class action was filed last week on behalf of the Spring Farm homeowners seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages against Camden Council and the developer.
He states 'the cottage gives me a tactile connection with my ancestors'. Mr Nesbitt recently revisited the house after a number of years' absence and recalled spending many weekend visits with his father during the s. He maintains that 'the closeness to the past does get overwhelming at times'.
His son is the seventh generation of the family to come to the cottage. Spring Farm has had a long history of industrial, mining and agriculture activity. In the twentieth century s—s there were extensive apple and stone fruit orchards and vineyards along Springs Road and the adjacent floodplain of the Nepean River.
The Spring Farm Nepean floodplain has been an ideal location for grape production from the s. Martin Thurn, a vine-cutter who was brought out from Germany by the Macarthurs in , originally put grapes on the site now occupied by Camden Estate Vineyards. In the s and s table grapes were grown and sent to the Sydney markets, as they were from other parts of the Elderslie area.
The deep alluvial soil and mild climate are ideally suited to Chardonnay grapes, which were planted on Camden Estate between and Greg Penman, the estate owner in the late s, stated that the grapes yielded between four and six tonnes per acre depending on seasonal factors, although he said that the March rains could be an issue.
Most of the grapes from the estate vineyard were sent to the Hunter Valley for processing, after which they are blended and bottled. One of the principal land uses has been the production of poultry: chickens for eggs, and both chicken and turkeys for meat. The Tegel family was one of the major operators from the s, when, according to the Camden Advertiser , they owned eight farms and a breeder hatchery.
During the s and s they supplied most of the breeding stock for Inghams, one of Australia's largest poultry producers. Other poultry producers included Neville Clinton who owned a turkey farm in the area for over 30 years.
The heritage of poultry farming is remembered in the area as several streets carry chicken-related names, including Bantam, Freerange, Cockerel and Dorset, and names of poultry producers, including Tegel and Ingham.
From the early twentieth century, before Camden township was connected to town sewerage, the area along Springs Road was used for the dumping and treatment of night soil.
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