HERITAGE INSIGHTS

Ensuring that transition between significant fabric and an addition is vital to the success of a heritage project.

Municipal regulations are not recent. As pointed out by the fantastic book about the state of American heritage, The Past and Future City...

Touring the Past is delighted to announce the opening of its Blue Mountain’s ‘field office’. This exciting news means we are able to...

Getting heritage pre-purchase advice is crucial if you plan to invest in a heritage property.

The heritage management system enacted by the NSW Heritage Act 1977 has matured alongside the ascendant economic creed of our era,...

What are they? Heritage conservation areas (or HCAs) appear across NSW’s physical and planning landscapes. An important heritage tool,...

How hard is it to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the...

In the second instalment of 'Notes from the field' Touring the Past is zeroing in on ‘heritage colours’. We have placed this term in...

Over the last few weeks Touring the Past has worked on a number of heritage projects involving subdivision. This is hardly surprising...

Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make but about the stories you tell - Seth Godin, marketing expert Touring the Past...

Over the past several years, urban consolidation agendas have made it far easier to gain approval to construct granny flats, studios, and...

'mitigation is probably the principal aim of the impact assessment process, especially if conservation involves managing, rather than...

'The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.' –...

Historic sites are not static antiquities - they are living institutions uniquely poised to address current issues while retaining their...

Heritage interpretation plays a far more important role in heritage initiatives than many people realise. Over the last few years, the...