HERITAGE INSIGHTS

Heritage Impact Assessments: junctions matter

Ensuring that transition between significant fabric and an addition is vital to the success of a heritage project.

Working with heritage regulations

Municipal regulations are not recent. As pointed out by the fantastic book about the state of American heritage, The Past and Future City...

Announcing Touring the Past’s Blue Mountain’s ‘field office’—solution-based heritage services

Touring the Past is delighted to announce the opening of its Blue Mountain’s ‘field office’. This exciting news means we are able to...

Why Heritage Pre-purchase Advice is necessary

Getting heritage pre-purchase advice is crucial if you plan to invest in a heritage property.

Marketing heritage, neo-liberal style

The heritage management system enacted by the NSW Heritage Act 1977 has matured alongside the ascendant economic creed of our era,...

Notes from the field #3: Heritage Conservation Areas

What are they? Heritage conservation areas (or HCAs) appear across NSW’s physical and planning landscapes. An important heritage tool,...

Heritage consulting: thoughts on place & conservation

How hard is it to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the...

Notes from the field #2: 'Heritage Colours'

In the second instalment of 'Notes from the field' Touring the Past is zeroing in on ‘heritage colours’. We have placed this term in...

Notes from the field #1: Subdivision

Over the last few weeks Touring the Past has worked on a number of heritage projects involving subdivision. This is hardly surprising...

Leveraging your past – using history in the hunt for the authentic

Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make but about the stories you tell - Seth Godin, marketing expert Touring the Past...

Granny Flats and Heritage: what you need to know

Over the past several years, urban consolidation agendas have made it far easier to gain approval to construct granny flats, studios, and...

What's the skinny with heritage mitigation

'mitigation is probably the principal aim of the impact assessment process, especially if conservation involves managing, rather than...

Heritage Impact Statements – some observations

'The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.' –...

An anarchist's guide to heritage interpretation

Historic sites are not static antiquities - they are living institutions uniquely poised to address current issues while retaining their...

Interpretation Strategies: getting to the nub of significance

Heritage interpretation plays a far more important role in heritage initiatives than many people realise. Over the last few years, the...