Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620:body:0:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 8847–11863

Designated Area Precincts: the Parliamentary Zone is identified as precinct 1
Figure 45 Parliamentary Zone, Indicative Development Plan, detail of the Parliamentary Executive, Campus A ('H' is Magna Carta Place, and 'I' is Constitution Place)
Figure 46 Perspective view of the Parliamentary Zone 'campuses' looking south-west: West Block is indicated
Figure 47 Significant trees and landscape character areas
Figure 48 West Block: heritage curtilage, showing the curtilage extending toward East Block
Figure 49 West elevation of West Block (part), c. 1928: the pull-down awnings in boxed casings were an early addition
Figure 50 West elevation of West Block (part), 1972
Figure 51 Aerial view of West Block: the location of an indicative building envelope is in pink
Figure 52 Lettering reading 'Commonwealth Offices West Block' was added over the main entrance in the early post-World War II period
Figure 53 Detail of 'Permanent Planting for the Governmental Group', 1928, with the original structured arrangement indicated
Figure 54 Existing interpretation at West Block

PROJECT TEAM
Adam Mornement, Associate Principal, Lovell Chen
Peter Lovell, Director and Founding Principal, Lovell Chen
Felicity Strong, Heritage Consultant, Lovell Chen
Michael Cook, Heritage Consultant, Lovell Chen
Brigitte Samwell, Graphic Design, Lovell Chen

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Eric Martin, Managing Director, Eric Martin and Associates

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Heritage Management Plan (HMP) for West Block and the Dugout (generally referred to here as West Block) at Block 3, Section 23 Parkes (part), Canberra was commissioned by the Geocon Group.  The company signed a 99-year Crown Lease for the property on 20 November 2017.  It plans to adapt the redundant three and four-level office building at the site as a hotel.
West Block is included in the Commonwealth Heritage List (CHL place ID 105428), which is established under the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).  This HMP has been prepared in accordance with Schedule 7A of the Commonwealth Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Regulations, 2000: 'Management Plans for Commonwealth Heritage Places'.  The overarching objective of Schedule 7A of the EPBC Act is to provide frameworks to inform the future conservation and management of the cultural heritage values of places included in the Commonwealth and National heritage lists.  This document also follows the principles and processes set out in heritage best practice guidelines, including the Burra Charter (2013).

Overview of the asset
West Block was designed in 1925, built in 1926-27 and was in use from August 1927.  It formed part of the Parliament House Secretariat group, which also includes East Block and the Provisional Parliament House.
West Block comprises a series of four three-storey wings (or blocks) of varying footprint connected on a north-south axis.  It was designed in the interwar Stripped Classical style (also referred to as Modern Renaissance).