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Landmark for Sale: The Dennes Point at Kelly's Estate on Bruny Island in Tasmania

Vision

Vision and background

The owners of Kelly's Estate, a couple of European travel writers and photographers, came to Tasmania in 1991 and were overwhelmed by the beauty of the place and the warm welcome of the friendly people of Tasmania. A sudden love affair began, the experienced travel writers expressed by a number of passionate editorials published in the European media.

After eight years of continued intensive editorial and promotional activities for the benefit of Australia, especially Tasmania and its people, the journalists were granted "Permanent Residency, Distinguished Talent, Australian Support", this allowing them to acquire Kelly's Lookout on top of Storm Bay to enhance the unique Bruny Island Lookout into what the new owners called "The distinctive experience" by establishing an Art Gallery together with a Lookout Café to host visitors from all over the globe. The new owners dedicated the private Lookout to the public and shared it with their guests. After six years of serving the Australian community as dedicated hosts the owners acquired Kelly's Estate, the utmost northern point of Bruny Island, because they had recognised the potential of another opportunity of benefiting the community they love so much.

In particular the owners' vision was to organize legal public access for recreational purposes via the Point and to four kilometres of pristine coastline with exceptional views, expanding from the village of Dennes Point via Kelly's Point, Cape de la Sortie as far as Bull Bay in front of Kelly's Lookout.

The local Council initially supported in general a land exchange to achieve legal public access but the owners eventually decided to donate a substantial part of their land to the Crown, to achieve their goal of providing legal access for the public. In appreciation of this "more than generous donation" the owners recently have been granted multiple rights of way over Crown land to the remaining vacant residential blocks at Kelly's Estate.

The vision of the dedicated philanthropists is now, that Kelly's Estate would become synonymous for "life is a beach" in the area, for the benefit of some lucky families and the friendly locals. Or Kelly's Estate may well challenge an experienced and environmentally conscious developer to establish a thriving village beach with desperately needed recreational services for the benefits of the local and wider community.

Vision is that the precious land may attract buyers, who are just as precious by their spirits as reflected by a friend and soul mate of the owners: "...I guess we are a mixed bag both individually and collectively...and it's only really in ourselves we find peace / oneness / a reconciliation of all the elements…(maybe)…" - A. -

The owners' vision finally is that their donation of 6,000 square metres of valuable coastal land may set an example how legal public access issues at the coastline could be resolved, especially in the light of the legal public access issues at the Battery Point walkway along the Derwent shore, where rich and privileged landowners have been trying to sell 40 square meters of submerged land to the tax and ratepayers of Hobart for more than $700,000 instead of donating it for the benefit of the community they are part of.

Last not least the owners wish to thank the State Government of Tasmania, in particular the Minister in charge, the Honorable David Llewellyn, for deciding to acknowledge the owners' donation, which well may have saved the community significant tax and ratepayers money.

Meanwhile the owners remain on track looking for further opportunities to enhance the local environment to benefit the community as best they can. One of the next contributions might not be far away as the owners have been appointed members of the North Bruny Island Committee.

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