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Parramatta Park Trust STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR PARK Management and conservation of Parramatta Park is informed and guided by a suite of documents arising from compliance with the Parramatta Park Trust Act 2001 and statutory obligations due to listing of the site on the State Heritage Register and the National Heritage List and to meet our obligations arising from the listing of Parramatta Park and Old Government House on the World Heritage List. HERITAGE LISTINGS List or Register Item name Year inscribed (s) = statutory (c) = community National Trust Register # 9237 (c) Parramatta Park 1978 * Register of the National Estate #3072 (s) Parramatta Park 1978, 1980 NSW State heritage Register # 596 (s) Parramatta Park & Old Government House 1989 City of Parramatta, Local Environment Plan, Parramatta Park Archaeological Management Unit 1997 Schedule ‘Heritage Items’ #418 (s) * Sydney Regional Environmental Plan #28 Parramatta Regional Park 1999 Schedule 6 ‘Heritage Items’ Parramatta City Centre Local Environment Plan, Schedule 5 Environmental Heritage Parramatta Park 2007 C6982, C9290, MS90SY National Heritage List # 105957 (s) Old Government House and Government Domain 2007 Inscribed on the World Heritage List as part of a serial World Heritage List listing of 11 forming the Australian 2010 Convict Sites World Heritage Property Registers marked (*) area closed and no longer in use, but retained as historical references

FRAMEWORK National Context Legislation: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Relevant documents: Australian Convict Sites – Strategic Management Framework (2008), and Old Government House and Domain Management Plan (2009) Associated documents: Parramatta Park Conservation Management Plan (2008); Old Government House Conservation & Management Plan (1997) and Supplementary Volume (2001); Parramatta Park Landscape Master Plan (2002); Parramatta Park Archaeological Zoning Plan (1995) Old Government House and Domain Management Plan and companion documents were endorsed by the Minister in 2008. State Context Legislation: Parramatta Park Trust Act 2001; Parramatta Park (Old Government House) Act, 1967; NSW Heritage Act 1977, Planning Act 2002. Relevant documents: Parramatta Park Conservation Management Plan (2008); Old Government House Conservation & Management Plan (1997) and Supplementary Volume (2001); Parramatta Park Landscape Master Plan (2002); Parramatta Park Archaeological Zoning Plan (1995) Other documents: Heritage Asset Management Strategy (2008); Heritage and Conservation Register (s.170 Register) (2009). Parramatta City Centre LEP 2007 Schedule 5 – Environmental Heritage and Heritage Map (HER-001) ATTACHMENT B

AUSTRALIAN CONVICT SITES WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTY

The Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property is a series of eleven outstanding heritage places across . Collectively they are representative of the global phenomenon of the forced migration of convicts.

The Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 31 July 2010. The sites included in the serial listing are:

 Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk (1788 – 1814 and 1824 – 55)  Old Government House and Domain, Parramatta Park NSW (1788 – 1856)  Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney NSW (1819 – 48)  Brickendon-Woolmers Estates, (1820 – 50s)  Darlington Probation Station, National Park Tasmania (1825-32 and 1842 – 50)  Old Great North Road, Wiseman’s Ferry NSW (1828 – 35)  Cascades , Mount Wellington Tasmania (1828-56)  Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania (1830-77)  , Norfolk Bay Tasmania (1833-48)  Cockatoo Island Convict Site, Sydney NSW (1839-69)  , Fremantle WA (1852-86)

Each site represents key elements of the story of forced migration of convicts and is associated with global ideas and practices relating to punishment and reform of criminal elements of society during the modern era. The eleven sites that form the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property are outstanding examples of this story in Australia’s rich convict history, however, more than 3,000 other convict sites still remain around Australia. This is unique in the world today.

The transportation of convicts to penal colonies dates back to the 17th century and continued up until 1938. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Russia and Argentina criminals to penal colonies across the world. British transportation to Australia was the world’s first conscious attempt to build a new society on the labour of convicted prisoners. Some 160,000 men, women and children were transported to Australia over a period of 80 years between 1787 and 1868.

All of the eleven sites included in this World Heritage listing are also inscribed on the Australian National Heritage List and are protected by legislation and site management plans.

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Final Decision for the Australian Convict Sites