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...