Listening and understanding.
We are place-makers who appreciate that our heritage means different things to different communities.
We facilitate discussion and listen so that we can work with communities to identify what they value and how we can conserve and celebrate it. We have a speciality in Aboriginal community engagement.
Consultation
Engagement Strategies
Social Impact Assessment
The inner-western suburb of Sunshine boasts a rich and diverse working-class history that is readily evident in its impressive industrial sites. Extent Heritage was engaged by Brimbank City Council to undertake a heritage assessment of one of these sites – the Sunshine Silos.
Extent Heritage was engaged (in partnership with Lovell Chen) to prepare a Heritage Management Plan for Fremantle Prison - a place inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The managers of the TWWHA are now well-placed to implement culturally sensitive management regimes that meet the needs and expectations of Aboriginal communities, the Tasmanian State Government, ICOMOS, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the World Heritage Committee.
We are proud of the role that we have played in ensuring the dignified and respectful management of the Aboriginal heritage values embodied by the QVM. Our work has resulted in the place's heritage values being communicated and understood so that appropriate processes are in place to protect its diverse heritage values, while assisting the City of Melbourne to design and deliver its renewal program.
Our landscape-based approach was an excellent illustration of how Extent Heritage is responsive to the multi-layered heritage values of large areas and demonstrates our team’s ability to be receptive to the competing aspirations of multiple Aboriginal groups, as well as those of the local council, state government and local residents.
Our work has assisted the local community and shire council to identify those places that are important to them, while providing clear guidance to future developers in the region.
