Heritage Impact Assessments: junctions matter
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Ensuring that transition between significant fabric and an addition is vital to the success of a heritage project.


- Jan 5, 2020
- 2 min
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...


- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
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...


- Jul 24, 2019
- 2 min
Why Heritage Pre-purchase Advice is necessary
Getting heritage pre-purchase advice is crucial if you plan to invest in a heritage property.


- Feb 9, 2019
- 3 min
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,...

- Dec 21, 2018
- 4 min
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,...


- Nov 8, 2018
- 4 min
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...


- Oct 1, 2018
- 5 min
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...

- Sep 12, 2018
- 3 min
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...


- Aug 21, 2018
- 2 min
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...


- Aug 9, 2018
- 3 min
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...


- Aug 8, 2018
- 4 min
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...


- Aug 8, 2018
- 6 min
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.' –...


- Jul 18, 2018
- 4 min
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...

- Jul 3, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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