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generationally non-matching trees versus the concurrent removal and replacement of both trees.
If the opportunity arises, reinstatement of the Lombardy poplar pair at the northwest corner of the car park, adjacent to the Queen Victoria Terrace / Commonwealth Avenue intersection, is also encouraged.
Figure 53 Detail of 'Permanent Planting for the Governmental Group', 1928, with the original structured arrangement indicated
Source: National Library of Australia, nla.obj-230044722
An alternating row of Giant redwood (Sequiadendron giganteum) and Atlantic Cedar (Cedrus atlantica) originally provided continuity with a large-scale avenue planting of the same species which was established on the irregularly-shaped parkland block to the north-west.  While trees from this alignment have been progressively lost, two of the Atlantic cedars and one of the Giant redwoods still stand between the West Block car park and Commonwealth Avenue, as do a number of the constituent trees of the northern alignment to the north.  It would be appropriate to establish infill plantings to regenerate the continuity and form of this avenue while retaining the existing trees within their feasible lifespans.

Policy 20 Changes to the landscape
Any changes to the landscape setting and broader heritage curtilage should be sensitive to the heritage values of the place.
Changes to the landscaping around West Block should be guided by the plan of permanent plantings for the Governmental Group of 1928 (Appendix B).  The insertion of new structural or planted elements, and the modification or reconstruction of existing features, may be accommodated in the landscape provided that such change is undertaken in a manner sympathetic and subservient to the setting's character as designed and as extant within the place today, and in accordance with other relevant policies in this HMP, including Policy 18.
New plantings and structural elements should be consistent with the original characters of Zone 1 and Zone 2.  Where practical, species selections should be drawn from the original planting specifications and should otherwise be sympathetic to the character and intent of those selections.  The informal native character of Zone 2 should be maintained.
Similarly, the location and treatment of new hard surfaces and structural landscape elements should be consistent with the original formal organisation and features of the place, with the division of circulation networks and with the architectural character of West Block.  While new elements should employ materials or details which differentiate them from original fabric, they should be sympathetic to the form and qualities of that fabric and consistent with the treatment of similar elements elsewhere within the Parliamentary Triangle precinct.

Policy 21 Recording
Geocon, and subsequent owners, should maintain a record of significant interventions to West Block and the Dugout
Records of works/interventions to West Block should be maintained by Geocon.  The record