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and Energy a final version of the Heritage Management Plan for its review and approval …
It is consistent with the requirements of Schedules 7A and 7B of the Commonwealth Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Regulations, 2000, respectively 'Management Plans for Commonwealth Heritage Places' and 'Commonwealth Heritage management principles' (see also Section 1.4).
This document supersedes an HMP dated 2014 (but substantially drafted in 2010) for West Block prepared by Eric Martin and Associates Architects.
The primary objectives of this HMP are to:
      * Confirm the cultural heritage significance of West Block and the Dugout;
      * Provide policies for the conservation of the place, taking into account the care of significant fabric, the appropriate management of hazardous materials and the use and management of the site; and
      * Provide a heritage framework to inform future management of the place, including guidance on new works and development.

1.2                    Identification of the place
West Block is located to the south-west of the Provisional Parliament House at the southern apex of the Parliamentary Triangle (Figure 1).  The office building was constructed in 1926-27 and in use from August 1927 as part of the Parliament House Secretariat group.  East Block and the provisional Parliament House itself are the other components of the group.  The three buildings were designed by John Smith Murdoch, Chief Architect of the Commonwealth.  West Block, which was originally known as Secretariat No. 2, has been subject to incremental change and evolution over the past 90 years.  Its current extent is shown at Figure 2.
The Dugout is a small, single-storey electrical substation to the east of the West Block (Figure 3).  It was built in 1942 as an air raid shelter.  The building's significance derives from its adaptation in 1943 to accommodate a Typex cypher machine which enabled secure coded communication between Prime Minister John Curtin and the leaders of Australia's key allies, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt.
An approximately triangular at-grade carpark is located to the west of Block 3, Section 23 Parkes, and there are remnants of the original 1920s landscaping treatment to all sides of West Block, as well as more recent native plantings to the east and south-east.  The subject site covers an area of 1.689ha and includes three easements (see Figure 3).

1.2.1               Note regarding orientation
The axis connecting the four blocks that comprise West Block is oriented on a diagonal to true north – technically north-northeast to south-southwest.  For ease of understanding, the elevation facing Queen Victoria Terrace is referred to in this report as north; the elevation oriented to Commonwealth Avenue as west; the elevation facing the embankment and the large car park south-east of the Provisional Parliament House