What to include in your National Heritage place management plan
A management plan should:
- Describe
- the place, its location and address
- the method used to assess the heritage value
- the stakeholder and community consultation process
- the access, security arrangements and protocols for sensitive information
- how heritage advice was and will be obtained
- who prepared the management plan and what skills were applied.
- Research the history and describe the characteristics of the place.
- Analyse and compare the place with other similar places to reveal its qualities, condition and intactness.
- Identify the place's heritage significance and values.
- List owner/occupier needs and operational requirements and the legislative context applying to the place.
- Include a list of general and detailed conservation policies that permit the continuation of the operational requirements of the owner/occupier in a way that conserves and protects the integrity of the heritage values of the place. These may include identifying, explaining and specifying:
- how the known heritage values will be conserved and protected
- the nature of the management and conservation process of the management agency and how it will follow the management process and apply the conservation policies
- what security measures and protocols need to be established (if any) and implemented to provide for Indigenous participation and to protect sensitive information
- stakeholder, community consultation and liaison arrangements
- how planned development and future works at the place will be managed
- how the place will be adapted for new uses and how the new uses will be consistent with the heritage values
- how disposal of the place will occur and the measures taken to ensure ongoing protection of the heritage values
- any change measured against the condition datum, monitoring and reporting on the condition of the values, measuring intervention and maintenance and reporting change
- how the manager of the place will seek heritage advice and the quality of that advice
- what research, induction and staff training will be applied by the managing agency
- what financial resources will be found by the managing agency to improve recognition of heritage and the management of heritage values including maintenance and conservation works
- how the condition of the heritage values will be measured and how any intervention to and maintenance of the place will be audited, recorded and reported
- how the heritage values of a place will be interpreted and promoted.
- Have detailed strategies to support the conservation policies and expand on their application including measures and resources to overcome any maintenance backlog or to undertake restoration and conservation works.
- Provide information on:
- how the conservation policies will be implemented and monitored; and
- how and when the management plan will be reviewed.
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