Conservation Plan

The Conservation Plan is an important publication written by James Semple Kerr in 1982 and revised many times. It was a landmark in Australian conservation. The document "...outlines the logical processes of the Burra Charter, and how to prepare a Conservation Plan to guide and manage change to a heritage item appropriately". Subtitled "a guide to the preparation of conservation plans for places of European cultural significance", it has guided building conservation in Australia and around the world.^[1]

Conservation Plan

Author	James Semple Kerr
Language	English
Genre	Heritage conservation
Publication date	1982
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback), online
Pages	84 pp
ISBN	1-86364-026-6

The Conservation Plan is widely used by heritage practitioners and property owners in Australia, and worldwide as a primary guide to the process of researching, documenting and managing historic places in accordance with the Burra Charter, through a logical process. First published by the National Trust of Australia (NSW) in 1982, it has subsequently been reprinted in expanded form over seven editions and twelve printing impressions.^[2] The concept has been adopted worldwide as a critical process for conserving heritage places, for example in the British Heritage Lottery Fund guidance note Conservation Plans for Historic Places,^[3] Wales^[4] and British Columbia.^[5]