NSW Government Heritage Policy 1996
In April 1996 the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning, announced the New South Wales Government's heritage policy.
The key elements of this policy are:
- Creating the Heritage Branch directly responsible to the Minister;
- Basing membership of the Heritage Council on skills rather than representation of interest groups;
- Focusing the Heritage Council on the protection of major items of State significance;
- Developing a comprehensive inventory of the State's heritage items to be completed within a year;
- Developing a model local environmental plan for local councils to use in protecting heritage items in their area;
- Establishing a new $30M heritage fund to restore and conserve the State's heritage;
- Introducing enforceable wilful negligence provisions where owners of heritage properties allow deliberate damage to occur;
Other elements of the policy:
- Facilitating and fast tracking the preparation of registers of heritage assets owned and managed by State government agencies;
- Improving partnerships with the corporate sector and increasing promotion of heritage;
- Increasing access to heritage information through State government agencies;
- Publicising completed Heritage Assistance Program funded projects;
- Widening the focus of the Heritage Council to include more appropriate consideration of Aboriginal, movable and natural heritage as well as other cultural heritage.
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