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We can maintain school, parish and shop buildings in Herne Hill, where three schools share the slope with the Western Cemetery and small shopping strips. Two of those sites are heritage-listed, so we check the controls before we start.
Herne Hill’s non-residential buildings are mostly schools, with a fire station, a cemetery and small shops.
Clonard College on Church Street had a ministerial permit for new buildings in 2022, and its Oak Centre STEM building, finished in 2024, was the first phase of a ten-year master plan. St Joseph’s College has its Westcourt campus on Minerva Road, and Holy Spirit Parish School is further along. Schools in growth mode need fit-outs, joinery and maintenance between the big builds.
The heritage overlay on Clonard controls paint and trees, and the overlay on the Western Cemetery controls paint as well. External changes on those sites generally need a permit. We work to those controls and match existing timber rather than replacing it with something that doesn’t belong.
Small shopping strips sit along Church and Autumn Streets and Minerva Road. Two shops and four apartments were applied for on Minerva Road, and a Pilates studio was applied for on Church Street in 2025. Our 6 Herne Hill jobs so far have all been in homes, and the same carpentry suits small premises.
Looking for a carpenter for your Herne Hill home or unit? See our Carpenter Herne Hill page.
The commercial work Herne Hill’s schools, fire station and shops call for.
Planned carpentry for schools and parish buildings.
Studios and small shops fitted out.
Work on heritage-listed school and cemetery sites.
Doors, frames and damage repaired.
Doors for classrooms and high-use buildings.
Roof edges repaired on older buildings.
Common-property repairs for mixed-use and unit blocks.
A business manager, a committee or the owner, by call or work order.
Heritage overlays on listed sites are checked first.
Itemised, with any permit step set out.
School holidays, after hours or staged so the site keeps running.
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Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
A burial ground was set aside at the high end of Herne Hill’s slope in 1858, now the Western Cemetery. The state and Catholic primary schools opened in 1954 and 1955, and the Brigidine Sisters opened a convent and Clonard College in 1956.
Growing schools, heritage-listed grounds and small local shops are why the commercial work here is careful, well-timed maintenance and small fit-outs.
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