nomination by the Government of Australia - Sydney Opera House

7.B TEXTS RELATING TO PROTECTIVE
DESIGNATION, COPIES OF PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT PLANS OR DOCUMENTED
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND EXTRACTS
OF OTHER PLANS RELEVANT TO THE
PROPERTY
Kerr, JS 2003, Sydney Opera House: a conservation
plan for the Sydney Opera House and its site (known
as the Conservation Plan (SOH)) Sydney Opera House
Trust, Sydney. The Conservation Plan (SOH) was
endorsed by the New South Wales Heritage Council
on 5 November 2003.
Utzon, J 2002, Sydney Opera House Utzon design
principles (known as the Utzon Design Principles)
Sydney Opera House Trust, Sydney.
Management plan for the Sydney Opera House
2005, (the Management plan), prepared by the
New South Wales Government in consultation with
the Australian Government as part of a bilateral
agreement pursuant to the Environment Protection
and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth). The
Management plan incorporates the Conservation Plan
(SOH) and the Utzon Design Principles.
7.B (i) Legislation
Australian Heritage Council Act 2003 (Cwlth)
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
1979 (NSW)
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation
Act 1999 (Cwlth)
Heritage Act 1977 (NSW)
Sydney Opera House Trust Act 1961 (NSW)
7.B (ii) Planning instruments, policies
and guidelines
Minimum standards of maintenance and repair, NSW
Heritage Offi ce 1999, Heritage Information Series, NSW
Heritage Offi ce, Sydney
State agency heritage guide, NSW Heritage Offi ce
and Heritage Council of NSW 2005, NSW Heritage
Offi ce, Sydney
State Environmental Planning Policy (Major Projects)
2005
Sydney Regional Environmental Plan (Sydney Harbour
Catchment) 2005 (‘Harbour REP’)
Draft amendment to Sydney Regional Environmental
Plan (Sydney Harbour Catchment) 2005 which
provides for the Sydney Opera House buffer zone if the
Sydney Opera House should be inscribed on the World
Heritage List.
7.C FORM AND DATE OF MOST RECENT
RECORDS OR INVENTORY OF PROPERTY
The Sydney Opera House’s collection of information
and records about its history (the Dennis Wolanski
Library) was closed in 1996 and most of the collection
was dispersed. The main recipients were the State
Library of New South Wales, the University of New
South Wales and the Victorian Arts Centre Performing
Arts Museum. A small collection was retained on
site by the Sydney Opera House Trust and is known
as the Dennis Wolanski Archives. It includes several
historic models by Jørn Utzon and a collection of
books, articles and artefacts.
‘The Utzon Collection’ held by the Mitchell Library at
the New South Wales State Library is a major collection
of Jørn Utzon’s offi ce fi les, plans, working models and
sketches generated before 1966.
New South Wales State Records holds the records
of New South Wales Public Works which was the
government agency responsible for overseeing the
erection of the Sydney Opera House. The archive
includes the group of 12 drawings by Jørn Utzon that
won the 1956 architectural competition for a ‘National
Opera House’, records from the Hornibrook Group
and Hall Todd & Littlemore, photographs, minutes of
meetings, speeches, press releases, parliamentary
papers and news clippings.
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