Extent Heritage has specialised in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage management for twenty years. In that time, we’ve successfully completed over one thousand projects across all the states and territories of Australia.
Extent Heritage has forged strong and lasting relationships with traditional owners, consent authorities and developers based on professionalism, high standards and ethical conduct. We work closely with our clients and relevant stakeholders to facilitate heritage management outcomes that benefit all parties. Our holistic approach to heritage management balances the conservation needs of places with practical and timely outcomes.
We’re experts in the following areas:
strategic planning and risk assessment
heritage approvals and compliance
significance and impact assessments
management plans
archaeological surveys, salvage and excavation
community engagement
cultural values assessment and mapping
intangible heritage
social impact assessment
training and capacity building
heritage interpretation
land access and native title
RECENT PROJECTS
Extent Heritage WA carried out archaeological and ethnographic surveys across parts of Western Australia’s Midwest in collaboration with representatives of the Southern Yamatji Native Title Claim Group.
Extent Heritage was engaged (in partnership with Lovell Chen) to prepare a Heritage Management Plan for Fremantle Prison - a place inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The managers of the TWWHA are now well-placed to implement culturally sensitive management regimes that meet the needs and expectations of Aboriginal communities, the Tasmanian State Government, ICOMOS, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the World Heritage Committee.
We are proud of the role that we have played in ensuring the dignified and respectful management of the Aboriginal heritage values embodied by the QVM. Our work has resulted in the place's heritage values being communicated and understood so that appropriate processes are in place to protect its diverse heritage values, while assisting the City of Melbourne to design and deliver its renewal program.
Our landscape-based approach was an excellent illustration of how Extent Heritage is responsive to the multi-layered heritage values of large areas and demonstrates our team’s ability to be receptive to the competing aspirations of multiple Aboriginal groups, as well as those of the local council, state government and local residents.
Our work yielded large quantities of highly significant archaeological data crucial to reconstructing our ancient past, while we worked closely with our client to minimise delays to the development of major road infrastructure.
Extent Heritage was commissioned to prepare a heritage interpretation plan for the Lake Macquarie Outdoor Recreation centre in Balcolyn, New South Wales.
Extent Heritage, with collaborative partners Lovell Chen, prepared the Carlton Heritage Study for the City of Melbourne, employing an innovative new model for heritage studies that began with the ongoing Hoddle Grid study.
Extent Heritage was commissioned to prepare a conservation management plan (CMP) for the State Heritage Register-listed Collingwood House, in response to planned restoration work and future adaptive reuse of the site.