Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620:body:0:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 17076–20113

planning, design and setting for the building.

Recommendations
The core recommendations of this HMP are summarised below:
Conservation
Conservation objectives for West Block include:
      * Maintaining the external presentation of West Block as a free-standing structure with a general consistency of character and details expressive of the Federal Capital style.
      * Conserving original/early (pre-1950) internal features and fabric specifically: the north-south axis that connects the four blocks on each level; the two staircases in B Block; timber ceiling panels where extant in A, B and C blocks, including a section that is known to survive on the ground floor of B Block; and timber structural framing on levels 1 and 2, which provide an insight into the 'temporary' (provisional) nature of the building.
      * Conserving the Dugout, to the extent of fabric dating to the 1940s, and exploring opportunities to enhance an understanding of the building's historical significance.
      * Maintaining key structural landscape elements, including the original integral car park and the service road to the west of West Block, including a mixed plantation of exotic specimens to the north and west of West Block and native plantings to the east and south-east.
      * Maintaining landscape characteristics as established in the 1920s.
      * Maintaining trees dating to the 1920s.
Management
      * Geocon should comply with all applicable legislation in the management of West Block's Commonwealth heritage values, including the EPBC Act.
      * Programs of priority maintenance, remedial works and cyclical maintenance should form the basis for on-going care of the significant built fabric at West Block.
      * The heritage curtilage for West Block should be understood as extending beyond the boundaries of Block 3, Section 23 Parkes (part) to include elements that connect West Block to the broader planned landscape,
      * Future uses of West Block, including adaptation as a hotel, should be compatible with the assessed values of the place so that its cultural significance is maintained and conserved.  These values are both tangible (built fabric and landscape setting) and intangible (historical significance).  The values that relate to tangible elements can be maintained through conservation works and on-going management.  The historical values can be maintained through conservation of the original/early (pre-1950) building fabric and landscape elements, supplemented by on-site interpretation.
      * Alterations to the Dugout to reveal its original form should be encouraged, supported by in-situ interpretation (see also final bullet point below).
      * The extent of change at West Block since 1927 is such that reconstruction to an earlier or original form would be neither viable nor appropriate – the building's evolved form should be understood as part of its historical significance.  There is, however, potential for that process of evolution to continue, subject to the recommendations of