Heritage Management

We offer value by striving for excellence through best practice and achieving legislatively compliant solutions that address your project’s cultural heritage requirements.

Our services and expertise are needed where and when it matters to you most, across all stages of a project’s lifecycle.

Cultural heritage management

Feasibility

• Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) searches
• Aboriginal Objects Due Diligence Assessments
• Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessments
• Community consultation
• Historical heritage assessments
• Significance assessments
• Condition surveys (heritage buildings)
• Due diligence, duty of dare and risk assessments
• Mitigation advice

Approvals documentation

• Aboriginal Heritage Impact Permits (AHIP)
• Cultural Heritage Management Plans/Agreements (CHMP/A)
• Historical and built heritage surveys
• Statement of Heritage Impacts (SOHI)
• Heritage Impact Statements (HIS)

Management documentation

• Conservation Management Plans (CMP)
• Heritage maintenance schedules and plans
• Heritage interpretation
• Photographic archival recording
• Drone, photogrammetry and digital recording
• Fabric assessment and analysis
• Movable heritage recording, registers

Archaeology

• Aboriginal and historical archaeology
• Archaeological survey
• Archaeological monitoring
• Archaeological test excavations
• Archaeological salvage excavations
• Unexpected archaeological finds management
• Artefact analysis
• Archaeological Research Designs (ARD)
• Archaeological Zoning and Management Plans (AZP/AMP)
• Fish otolith analysis

Heritage planning and advice

Planning

• Local and place heritage studies
• Contextual studies
• Historical research
• Heritage register updates

Heritage advisory

• Planning scheme requirements and preparation advice
• Development, design advice
• Movable heritage requirements
• Adaptive reuse
• Conservation advice
• Independent peer review

Indigenous Engagement advisory

• Engagement strategies for proponents and Indigenous groups
• Independent facilitation
• Negotiation and agreement-making
• Training

As expectations increase for organisations to move beyond compliance and embrace meaningful engagement, the way corporates work with Indigenous groups is evolving. While this positive shift is creating new opportunities for collaboration and positive outcomes, it adds new complexities for parties to navigate.

We support both proponents and Indigenous groups seeking respectful, effective, and outcomes‑focused engagement.

Our advisory service includes facilitation, negotiation, agreement-making, strategy and training – designed and delivered to support specific project requirements or as part of broader ESG initiatives.

Our expertise is in bridging the gap between community, legal and commercial perspectives with practical, relationship‑centred advice to help create durable relationships and genuine outcomes for all parties.