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Heritage Planning

The Firm has been involved in a wide range of Heritage Planning issues, again from Queensland to Tasmania. In the North the Firm has been responsible for a number of heritage planning studies – Mulgrave Shire, Cairns City, the Towns of Gordonvale, Cardstone, Kuranda and Mt Morgan to Tasmania where again Peter was in charge of the numerous Heritage Planning matters undertaken by the Tasmanian Heritage Council.

The Firm was responsible for the production of the landmark Study and Report – first ‘Towards a Cairns Style’ and then ‘Cairns Style’, a Guide to establishing a style in building, planning and landscape for Cairns, based very much on the heritage of the area and the traditional styles produced by the tropical climate of the city.

On a smaller scale they have had experience on many individual heritage properties. Peter James was responsible for the 20 or more properties owned by the National Trust in New South Wales and also for its very successful Bicentennial Program through which some five million dollars was raised to acquire and restore and properly plan another seven properties. This program, ‘A Gift to the Nation’, eventually became a National Program. It was in this area that Peter James was appointed to Chair the Ministerial Committee in Tasmania into the National Trust property holdings which resulted in the rationalisation of their holdings and later he chaired the Commonwealth Government’s Committee oversighting the restoration of Clarendon, the National Trust’s largest house in Tasmania.