Conservation Plan

{{Short description|Work by James Semple Kerr}}

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| author = James Semple Kerr

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = Heritage conservation

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| release_date = 1982

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback), online

| pages = 84 pp

| isbn = 1-86364-026-6

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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.[https://australia.icomos.org/publications/the-conservation-plan/ Australia ICOMOS > Publications > The Conservation Plan]

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.{{Citation | author1=Kerr, James Semple | author2=Hanna, Bronwyn J. (Interviewer) | title=James Semple Kerr interviewed by Bronwyn Hanna in the Burra Charter oral history project | publication-date=2011 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/160040650 | accessdate=25 October 2014 }} 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,[https://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/consplans/conserve.htm 'Conservation Plans, Benefit or burden?' reproduced from The Building Conservation Directory, 2000] Wales[https://www.architectwestwales.co.uk/conservation-plans/ 'conservation Plans', Frans Nicholas Architects, corporate website] and British Columbia.[http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/heritage/external/!publish/web/Conservation_Planning_Methodology.pdf British Columbia Heritage Branch, Conservation Planning Methodology]