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These are the services offered by the team:

• Collate and curate legislative heritage compliance documentation for heritage auditing purposes.
• Prepare heritage guidance documentation so that recurrent low-risk heritage-adjacent activities can be managed without external input.
• Prepare and support heritage induction materials to improve heritage awareness for SINSW Business Units.
• Prepare the SINSW Connected with Country Framework and assist in its implementation.
• Build the SINSW Heritage Management Strategy documentation.
• Develop proactive heritage management schedules in conjunction with AM.
• Assist in the development of standard scoping briefs for common heritage services.
• Provide best-practice heritage advice to SINSW business units in a timely manner.
• Provide input into strategic decision-making proposals to heritage assets
• Prepare site selection heritage snapshots for early identification of heritage risks and opportunities for projects.
• Provide detailed review of external heritage consultant’s reporting as well as consultant’s scope of services.

• SINSW Heritage advise on the Department’s heritage obligations under law:
  
  • The Heritage Act
  • The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act (EP & A Act)
  • The State Agency Heritage Guide
  • National Parks and Wildlife Act (NPWS Act)
• We advise on heritage significance, impact and planning management pathways
• We advise across all forms of heritage – Aboriginal, Archaeology (Aboriginal objects and Relics), Built, Landscape, Movable
• We also manage the Schools Stonework Program

SINSW Heritage team have put together some resources to help you get to know a little about the cultural heritage of NSW public schools.

Schools along with other public buildings form the cultural and spiritual centres of our State’s communities - whether historic or modern in style - from the city to the suburbs, to regional cities and towns, small country towns and hamlets. Countless places across NSW have or have had a public school.

SINSW Heritage invite you to browse this growing library of conservation knowledge to help our public schools (heritage listed or yet to be listed) understand their history, maintain and restore their appearance and structure and preserve them for generations to come.

Please take some time to view this presentation 'Heritage in NSW public schools' (PDF).

Access is available to all SINSW members. If you are experiencing any issues with your access please contact: EDConnect.recordsmanagement@det.nsw.edu.au

To find items on the official S170 Heritage and Conservation Register click here. Search for items by entering the following terms in the Advanced Search window below:

• Community War Memorials Fund - to help conserve, repair and protect war memorials. Schools with war memorials onsite can participate in two application rounds per year.

• SINSW Heritage - SharePoint Library
  
• SINSW Heritage - Notifications and Exhibitions
• SINSW Heritage - Heritage Practice Notes
  
• SINSW Heritage - Interim Guidelines and Policies

NB: You will need to have the appropriate level of access to view these resources. Please request access to the SINSW SharePoint library by contacting sinsw.heritage@det.nsw.edu.au

• Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS) 2019-2024
• DEC Heritage Manual 2015
• Government Architecture in NSW Schools - Tanner Kibble Denton 2018
• School Buildings 1848-1930 - Peter F Tonkin 1974
• The work of the N.S.W. Government Architect's Branch, 1958-1973 - Russell C Jack

• Examples of SINSW Heritage library resources
  • Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS) 2019-2024
  • DEC Heritage Manual 2015
  • Government Architecture in NSW Schools - Tanner Kibble Denton 2018
  • School Buildings 1848-1930 - Peter F Tonkin 1974
  • The work of the N.S.W. Government Architect's Branch, 1958-1973 - Russell C Jack

• History of NSW government schools
• Number of government schools (1848-2018)
• Historical information about NSW government schools (1848-2019)

• Heritage Act 1977
• Environmental Planning and Assessment (EP&A) Act 1979
• National Parks and Wildlife (NP&W) Act 1974: Aboriginal Places, Sites and Objects (Archaeology)

• Heritage NSW
• Local Councils: Search local council web page
• Australia ICOMOS
• National Trust of NSW

• State Agency Heritage Guide
• Design Guide for Heritage
• Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter 2013
• Heritage NSW publications
• Heritage NSW technical advice

• Heritage NSW - Aboriginal Cultural Heritage webpage
• Heritage NSW - Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Services webpage
• NSW Government Architect Draft Framework: 'Connecting with Country'
• Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
  
• The-Biggest-Estate-on-Earth by Bill Gammage

• NSW Department of Education S170 Heritage and Conservation Register- State Heritage Register - State Heritage Inventory* - Statements of Significance* - Archaeological* (partial)*
• National Heritage and World Heritage listings
• Local Environmental Plan listings - see Schedule 5 of local LEPs
• Aboriginal Places, Sites and Objects

• NSW Planning Portal - Heritage layer
• SIX Maps - Lot and DP and 1943 aerial map for Sydney and suburbs
• NSW Historical Imagery
• NSW Historical Land Records Viewer
• City of Sydney - 1949 Aerial for City of Sydney
• National Library of Australia - Aerial Mapping
• NSW Department of Education Asset Management System

• The Australian National Museum of Education welcomes historical records and memorabilia (including spoons, badges, certificates, pennants, photographs, punishment books) from NSW schools.

• NSW State Archives and Records
• Trove at the National Library
• State Library of NSW
• City of Sydney Archives and History Resources
• University of Sydney Library
• Video: NSW State Records webinar on school records
• Video: NSW State Records webinar on land title records

• NSW Government Architect Draft Framework: 'Connecting with Country'
• Better Placed
  
• Design Guide for Schools
• Environmental design in Schools
• Regional Urban Design Guide

• NSW Public Works Advisory Heritage Panel
• Heritage NSW professionals list

For further information about school heritage, contact SINSW Heritage at sinsw.heritage@det.nsw.edu.au

lf you have any planning enquiries, contact SINSW Statutory Planning at StatutoryPlanning@det.nsw.edu.au