The South Fremantle Power Station (SFPS) is a place of exceptional cultural heritage significance to Western Australia. Proponents looking into the feasibility of the procurement and development of the SFPS, which sits as a ruin in a coastal landscape, required heritage advice and planning to assist in the understanding of heritage requirements, opportunities and constraints associated with its future management.

We prepared a new Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to reflect the place’s current condition. We then developed a Conservation Management Strategy (CMS) to provide a scope of prioritised conservation works. As part of the project team we also advised on heritage matters, possible future uses, and the opportunities for change to assist in feasibility discussions.

The CMP was updated to become the principal guiding document for the future conservation and management of the SFPS. We delivered a practical CMS which identified the condition of the current building and informed the appropriate course of action to conserve the heritage fabric. The document focused on the condition and required conservation works for SFPS to allow budgetary and programming of capital works over the immediate, short, medium and long term. In addition, we developed a scope of conservation works to be included within any future Heritage Agreement developed for the place.

• Heritage advice
• Conservation Management Plan
• Conservation Management Strategy
• Scope of Conservation Works

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