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sets out the obligations of the Reserve Bank under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

2.2                The Site
The Reserve Bank of Australia Head Office, located at 65 Martin Place, comprises three parcels of land, shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, and is described in documents held by the NSW Land Registry Services as:
                  Lot 1 of Deposited Plan 444499 (Parish of St James, County of Cumberland);
                  Lot 1 of Deposited Plan 32720 (Parish of St James, County of Cumberland); and
                  Lot 1 of Deposited Plan 33919 (Parish of St James, County of Cumberland).

The building defines the south side of Martin Place between Phillip and Macquarie Streets, and is bounded by Macquarie Street to the east, Martin Place to the north and Phillip Street to the west.  The building is a prominent element in all three streets.  Its southern boundary adjoins the boundary of the Law Society of NSW building and Windeyer Chambers.

The building is located on the eastern edge of the Sydney Central Business District.  The early twentieth buildings to the west of Macquarie Street are progressively being demolished and replaced with high rise commercial buildings.

Figure 1 - Plan showing the location of the Reserve Bank of Australia Head Office building, located at 65 Martin Place Sydney.
Source: NSW Land Registry Services, SIX Maps, https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/, accessed 2 September 2019.
Figure 2 - Aerial photograph showing the three parcels of land comprising the current site of the Reserve Bank of Australia Head office building.
Source: NSW Land Registry Services, SIX Maps, https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/, accessed 2 September 2019.

     2.3                Study Objectives
     The main objective of this Heritage Management Plan is generally to provide a practical working document to guide future works or changes to the Reserve Bank of Australia Head Office building to ensure the building's identified Commonwealth Heritage values are adequately identified, protected and conserved.  This heritage management plan aims to:

                  Provide an understanding of the historic development of the place, and a description of the physical fabric and its condition.
                  Identify the Commonwealth Heritage values of the place against the prescribed Commonwealth Heritage criteria.
                  Set out policies to ensure the Reserve Bank of Australia Head Office is managed and interpreted in accordance with Commonwealth Heritage management principles defined by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, as amended.
                  Address the Bank's obligations under Regulation 10.03b (Schedules 7A - Management Plans for Commonwealth Places and Schedule 7B – Commonwealth Heritage management principles) of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended.

     2.4                Methodology
     This report was prepared to, in part, satisfy the obligations of the Reserve Bank of Australia under Section 341S of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended.