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Cultural Heritage Management Plan resources for Heritage Advisors

Find guidance for Heritage Advisors on preparing Cultural Heritage Management Plans (CHMPs), conducting assessments and drafting conditions, as well as templates and approved forms.

Approved forms

Format in which a cultural heritage management plan must be prepared

Format in which a cultural heritage management plan must be prepared
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Format in which a map describing the activity area of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan must be presented

Format in which a map describing the activity area of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan must be presented
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Guides, templates and checklists

Guide to preparing a Cultural Heritage Management Plan

Guide to preparing a Cultural Heritage Management Plan
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Guide for drafting enforceable conditions and contingency plans

Guide for drafting enforceable conditions and contingency plans
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Spatial Data Guidelines

Guide to Lodging Spatial Data in the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register
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Cultural Heritage Management Plan checklist

Cultural Heritage Management Plan - Evaluation checklist
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Cultural Heritage Management Plan template

Cultural Heritage Management Plan template
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Aboriginal cultural heritage place assessment: Archaeological survey and excavation attributes form

Aboriginal cultural heritage place assessment: Archaeological survey and excavation attributes form
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Application forms and notices

Application for approval of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan

Application for approval of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan
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Application for approval of an amendment to a Cultural Heritage Management Plan

Application for approval of an amendment to a Cultural Heritage Management Plan
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Notice of Intention to prepare an amendment to an approved Cultural Heritage Management Plan

Notice of Intention to prepare an amendment to an approved Cultural Heritage Management Plan
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Advisory and practice notes

Geotechnical investigations to prepare for a permit

Advisory Note - Geotechnical Testing
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Advisory Note – Mineral Exploration

Advisory Note - Mineral Exploration
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Practice Note – Significant Ground Disturbance

Practice Note - Significant Ground Disturbance
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Practice Note – Subsurface Testing

Practice Note - Subsurface Testing
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Practice Note – Salvage Excavation

Practice Note - Salvage Excavation
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Information sheet on how to amend a CHMP

Information sheet for CHMPs including how to amend a CHMP
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Open letters to Heritage Advisors

Open Letter to Heritage Advisors - Supervision of Complex Assessments
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Open Letter to Heritage Advisors - Timely Submission of Place Inspection Forms to the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register
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Open Letter to Heritage Advisors - Consultation when preparing a cultural heritage management plan
PDF 943.36 KB
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Open Letter Heritage Advisors - Regarding Aboriginal and historic heritage when a cultural heritage management plan is prepared
PDF 495.99 KB
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Open Letter to Heritage Advisors - Regarding the lodgment of notices of intent to prepare a cultural heritage management plan
PDF 366.96 KB
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Open Letter to Heritage Advisors - contingency plans within cultural heritage management plans
PDF 409.87 KB
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