The NSW Heritage Strategy will work to recognise, protect and celebrate the places, objects and cultural practices that give our communities meaning. It looks to modernise heritage systems and processes, understand the meaning of heritage to the NSW community and address key challenges of heritage now and into the future.
The Strategy will:
- implement the review of the Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) to ensure its powers and responsibilities meet the needs of coming decades
- examine the s170 Heritage and Conservation Registers of NSW Government agencies and the management of the assets listed on the registers
- examine the interaction between state planning laws, planning policies and the Heritage Act
- review the funding support and incentives for heritage conservation and maintenance.
Engagement
Heritage NSW is now listening to the views of the NSW community, government agencies, and peak bodies to ensure the strategy reflects diverse perspectives. Through understanding the multiple and diverse values of NSW communities, the strategy will work towards a NSW heritage system that reflects the state's population, remains relevant to communities, and brings people together in understanding, valuing and protecting our history.
You can share your thoughts and insights on heritage in New South Wales through the NSW Heritage Strategy survey until 31 March 2024 on the:
NSW Heritage Act review
A Parliamentary inquiry into the Heritage Act 1977 (the Heritage Act) was held in 2021. The inquiry reviewed the effectiveness of the Heritage Act and the NSW heritage regulatory system to consider ways to deliver more effective, relevant, and best-practice approaches to recognise, conserve, re-use and celebrate NSW heritage.
Contact us in writing if you have questions.