Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01869:reg:6:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01869
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 9/86)
Character Range: 33750–36815

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  Human impact

  Manage the impacts of use and change through:

      * monitoring change

      * modifying use to keep change to within acceptable limits

      * implementing mechanisms for users to increase awareness of heritage values and minimise the impact on those values.

  Environmental management

  Engender sound environmental practices through:

      * applying appropriate environmental stewardship principles by demonstrating an understanding and willingness to assist with the care and protection of the broader environment

      * ensuring consistency with Parliament House Vista Management Plan and the National Capital Plan 1990

      * ensuring mechanisms to protect the place and its environmental envelope

      * putting in place processes for business continuity and disaster management.

     2.    Description

     2.1.  Location

      2.1.1.  Australia and the Australian Capital Territory

  Old Parliament House is situated in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory which is surrounded by the state of New South Wales. Canberra is 150 kilometres inland from the coast, 287 kilometres from Sydney and 660 kilometres from Melbourne. Canberra is the seat of the Australian Federal Government.

  Old Parliament House is in the suburb of Parkes, bounded by King George Terrace to the north, Queen Victoria Terrace to the south and Parliament Square to the east and west.

      2.1.2.  Parliamentary Triangle

  There are a number of important relationships between the building and its wider setting. Old Parliament House sits in an important and extensive landscape stretching between Mount Ainslie and Capital Hill. As a result, Old Parliament House has a strong relationship to Parkes Place, which is the area between it and Lake Burley Griffin and includes the reflection ponds and components of the National Rose Gardens. It has a strong relationship with the flanking Senate Garden and House of Representatives Garden, both of which were integral to the social development of the place and were private gardens frequently used by parliamentarians and their families during the time that Old Parliament House was a functioning parliament.

  Figure 3: Map of Australia and the Australian Capital Territory

  Old Parliament House has an historical and architectural relationship to the former two Secretariat buildings (East Block and West Block), and there is a relationship to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy located on King George Terrace. The encircling roads and garden areas immediately adjacent to the building are part of the practical and significant curtilage of the building.

  Figure 4: Aerial photograph and map showing the location of Old Parliament House
      2.1.3.  Boundaries

  This plan includes the building and its collections to the outer edges of the built structure, the internal gardens and the surrounding area (up to the central line of the perimeter roadways). The various management and legal boundaries within this area are outlined below and in Figure 5.

      1. Old Parliament