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