Heritage for Planners – Interactive WorkshopHeritage Impact Statements
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Heritage Impact Assessments
Post Office Kalgoorlie
Writing a HIS
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Why?
Who?
When?
How?
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Understanding Heritage Significance
Where to get information
What to look for
Sacred Heart Convent and School, Highgate
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Development control principles
• Presumption against demolition
• Give due weight to heritage significance
• Respect historic fabric
Anzac Cottage, Mount Hawthorn, 1916
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Heritage Impact Statement –
Case Study
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Before development
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Plans
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Plans
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Plans
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Heritage Information
One of the area’s oldest houses
Flemish Bond brickwork
Uncommon use of basaltic rock
Rear fibro addition
Largely in original form
“A charming example of early housing in the area”
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Heritage Impact Statement
Respect or enhance
• Retain and restore original fabric• Create commercially viable use• Remove intrusive and non-significant additions• Retain building layout and legibility• Identifies new works
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Detrimental impact
• Extensive new addition• Height at rear• Some design elements not sympathetic to
existing style• Reconfigured layout – main entrance to
side• Visual impact of new works• Change of use
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Recommendation
Approval with suggestions for improvement:
– integrate ramp canopy with rear verandah
– traditional form of windows in key areas
– detailing to consider heritage elements
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Outcome
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