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Wasted spaces — old quarries, mines and empty city sites — find new lives as places to love again

Surrounded by the lush forests of the Otway Ranges, about 200 kilometres west of Melbourne, sits an abandoned quarry in the tiny town of Beech Forest.

In need of earthworks, weed removal and government-legislated rehabilitation, the quarry is what you might call a real fixer-upper.

But when Joseph Norster and his partner Millie Cattlin first saw it in 2015, they knew it was what they'd been looking for.

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