Almost 140 heritage homes in Brisbane have been demolished with approval from the Brisbane City Council in the past 5 years.
Since July 2013, there have been 139 successful applications to demolish buildings which have been constructed before 1946.
A BCC spokesman states the Council will only approve demolition of pre-1946 houses in character building areas in very limited circumstances, such as unsafe structures and extensions where the building is no longer considered to represent pre-war architecture.