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NORTH PERTH POLICE STATION 81 ANGOVE STREET, NORTH PERTH CONSERVATION PLAN Prepared for LandCorp on behalf of the State of Western Australia May 2009 HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS NORTH PERTH POLICE STATION 81 ANGOVE STREET, NORTH PERTH CONSERVATION PLAN Prepared for LandCorp on behalf of the State of Western Australia May 2009 HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS 4/168 Hampden Road WA 6009 Postal Address: PO Box 3036 Broadway Crawley 6009 Telephone: (08) 9386 4088 Facsimile: (08) 9386 4388 CONSULTANT TEAM HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS Heritage Architecture Rosemary Rosario History Robin Chinnery Drawings Claire Boujos Report Presentation Alison Storey ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Department of Housing and Works Heritage Council of Western Australia National Trust of Australia (WA) State Records Office of Western Australia Peter Conole, Police Historian, & Police Records Management, WA Police Department Jo Mottolini, Property Management Section, WA Police Department Gordon Walmsley, LandCorp COPYRIGHT Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study or research, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of the information in this report may be stored in a retrieval system, reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the State of Western Australia. INDEX EXECUTIVE SUMMARY................................................................................................................I INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................. I HERITAGE LISTINGS ..................................................................................................................................... I STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE.................................................................................................................. I CONSERVATION POLICY.............................................................................................................................II FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES .....................................................................................................................II PHYSICAL CONSERVATION WORKS ...................................................................................................... III General Physical Conservation Issues, Short, Medium and Long Term Priorities .......................................... iii Urgent Works – 1 to 2 Year Time Frame......................................................................................................... iii Less Urgent Works – 2 to 5 Year Time Frame................................................................................................. iii Long Term Conservation Strategies – 5 to 10 Year Time Frame.....................................................................iv INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 PREAMBLE ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 HERITAGE LISTINGS..................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 PROJECT BRIEF .............................................................................................................................. 1 1.4 METHOD........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.5 DEFINITIONS................................................................................................................................... 2 1.6 LIMITATIONS.................................................................................................................................. 3 2.0 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE........................................................................................... 7 2.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 CHRONOLOGY ................................................................................................................................ 7 2.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH PERTH................................................................................... 9 2.4 NORTH PERTH POLICE STATION ............................................................................................. 10 2.5 COMPARATIVE PLACES............................................................................................................. 27 3.0 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE .................................................................................................... 31 3.1 SITE DESCRIPTION ...................................................................................................................... 31 3.2 NORTH PERTH POLICE STATION ............................................................................................. 36 3.2.1 General Description ....................................................................................................... 36 3.2.2 External Fabric............................................................................................................... 37 3.2.3 Internal Fabric................................................................................................................ 38 3.2.4 Authenticity and Integrity North Perth Police Station ................................................... 40 3.2.5 Condition of the North Perth Police Station .................................................................. 40 3.3 ANALYSIS OF DOCUMENTARY AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE............................................. 54 4.0 SIGNIFICANCE.................................................................................................................. 55 4.1 PREAMBLE .................................................................................................................................... 55 4.2 ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ............................................................................................. 55 4.3 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ............................................................................................... 57 4.4 LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE ........................................................................................................ 58 4.4.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................58 4.4.2 Exceptional Significance................................................................................................ 58 4.4.3 Considerable Significance.............................................................................................. 58 4.4.4 Some Significance.......................................................................................................... 58 4.4.5 Little Significance .......................................................................................................... 59 4.4.6 Intrusive.......................................................................................................................... 59 5.0 GENERAL CONSERVATION POLICIES...................................................................... 63 5.1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................ 63 5.2 CONSERVATION OF ASSESSED SIGNIFICANCE.................................................................... 63 5.3 THE BURRA CHARTER................................................................................................................ 64 5.4 STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................. 65 5.5 ASSESSING FUTURE USE AND DEVELOPMENT.................................................................... 65 5.6 REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERPRETATION................................................................................ 66 5.7 IMPLEMENTATION ...................................................................................................................... 67 6.0 PHYSICAL CONSERVATION POLICIES..................................................................... 69 6.1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................ 69 6.2 CONSERVATION OF THE SITE AND LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS........................................... 69 6.2.1 Conservation Policies for the Site and Landscape Elements.......................................... 69 6.3 CONSERVATION OF NORTH PERTH POLICE STATION........................................................ 71 6.3.1 General Planning Policies............................................................................................... 71 6.3.2 Conservation of the External Fabric............................................................................... 72 6.3.3 Conservation of the Internal Fabric................................................................................ 73 6.4 PHYSICAL CONSERVATION WORKS ....................................................................................... 76 6.4.1 General Physical Conservation Issues, Short, Medium and Long Term Priorities ........ 76 6.4.2 Urgent Works – 1 to 2 Year Time Frame......................................................................