A BENDIGO Avenue of Honour may be destroyed if one Bendigo woman's fight against land developers fails.
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A developer could flatten the block, on the corner of Murphy Street and Strickland Road, this year.
East Bendigo resident Gemma Starr will contest the plans at a VCAT hearing this week.
Ms Starr made a formal appeal against the planning application in June 2014 and the planned heritage overlay December 2014.
The four-acre block was re-zoned in 2007 from Public to Industrial Three.
It will divide the block into six industrial blocks with four driveways onto Murphy Street providing access to the back blocks.
Block seven, facing Strickland Road, will block the original entrance to the State School No. 3893 and flatten the trees lining the path to the entrance.
Ms Starr said the changes would restrict the ability to see the heritage-listed school.
"It’s a very strange side view that hardly gives you a view of the building," she said.
She said the trees lining the path framed the school's entrance and the view would be lost.
The avenue currently stands with five trees.
"This is living history. It's not as though this was a forgotten avenue," she said.
"When they bulldoze the trees down, the history will go with it."
Ms Starr said she was outraged over the plan to remove such a historic part of Bendigo's history.
"Their bodies aren't even buried here, this is the only living legacy of these people," she said.
"To me there is a bigger meaning to this."
The East Bendigo avenue of honour trees were planted in 1920 to honour servicemen from the area who fought in the Great War.
The occasion was reported in the Bendigo Advertiser on December 13, 1920, writing "the school committee are determined that the avenue shall be worthwhile, their determination being such that even if they have to plant 50 trees they will see that one grows in memory of each lad who left the district, and we teachers will see that the trees are well looked after."
Ms Gemma Starr said the heritage overlay did not respect the historical integrity of the school.
She said, ideally, a revised heritage overlay would take into consideration the importance of the avenue.
"It is about community, you have older people out there who aren't even aware that this is happening.
Bendigo RSL have been contacted for comment.