Proposed Office Development at the Corner of Parliament Place and Harvest Terrace, West Perth Heritage Impact Statement Prepared for the Pivot Group December 2020 | Job No: L20-023 ARCHITECTURE + HERITAGE Issue Date Status Prepared by Distribution 1 05 November 2020 Draft Nisar Dar Rowe Group, Bolig Design Group 2 09 December 2020 Final Nisar Dar Rowe Group, Bolig Design Group This report has been prepared for the exclusive use of the Client, in accordance with the agreement between the Client and Dar Studio (‘Agreement’). Dar Studio accepts no liability or responsibility in respect of any use of or reliance upon this report by any person who is not a party to the Agreement or an intended recipient. In particular, it should be noted that this report is a qualitative assessment only, based on the scope and timing of services defined by the Client and is based on information supplied by the Client and its agents. 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Introduction 1.1 Purpose This Heritage Impact Statement (HIS) has been prepared to form part of a Development Application to the West Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) for a new four storey office building located at No.1, 3 and 5 Harvest Terrace, West Perth. The proposal has been prepared as a result of a successful response to the State Government’s ‘Office Accommodation Parliamentary Precinct; Request for Expressions of Interest’. The proposal is located opposite Parliament House to the east and directly adjacent Harvest House to the north. Both places are of cultural heritage significance with Parliament House listed as a permanent entry on the State Register of Heritage Places and Harvest House on the Heritage Council’s assessment program, currently progressing towards registration. Both places are also included on the City of Perth’s Heritage List compiled under the City’s Town Planning Scheme No.2. The proposal also includes the demolition of two properties located at No.1 and 5 Harvest Terrace; neither of these hold any statutory heritage listing. The proposal is also located within the Parliament House Precinct, which contains a number of historic government buildings and grounds that include Parliament House, Dumas House, former Hale School and the Old Observatory. This civic precinct does not have any heritage listing but is nevertheless important in assessing the heritage impact of the proposal due to its prominent and elevated location characterised by these landmark heritage buildings set within open grounds that collectively form a significant cultural landscape. As a consequence of the overall heritage context, this HIS will describe and evaluate the likely impact of the proposal on the following places: • Parliament House & Grounds • Harvest House (No.7 Harvest Terrace) • Parliament House Precinct 1.2 References The HIS has been prepared in accordance with the requirements set out of in the ‘Heritage Impact Statement - A Guide’, published by the Heritage Council Western Australia. The assessment has been made against the following architectural drawings prepared by Bolig Design Group, dated August and November 2020: 4 Dar Studio | Architecture + Heritage • SK01 revA | Basement and Ground Floor Plan • SK02 | Level 1 and 2 Floor Plan • SK03 | Level 3 Floor Plan and Roof Plan • SK04 revB | Elevations • SK05 revB | Sections • SK06 | Shadow Diagram • SK07 | Plan Shadow Diagram • SK08 | Plot Ratio • SK09 | Landscaping Area - Ground Floor Plan • SK10 | Contextual Plan • SK11 | Building Setbacks Plan • SK12 | Demolition Plan • SK13 | Streetscapes • Image 01 rev3 | Artist’s impression View 01 • Image 02 rev3 | Artist’s impression View 02 • Image 03 rev3 | Artist’s impression View 03 Reference has also been made to the following landscape drawings prepared by Plan E, dated July 2020: • C1.101, revC | Landscape Concept Plan • C3.101, revB | Planting Palette - Ground • C3.102, revB | Planting Palette - Level 1 Reference has also been made to the following: • Heritage Council of Western Australia, Register of Heritage Places: Register Entry and Assessment Documentation for Parliament House & Grounds, ref: P2239, 05 November 2020. • Heritage Council of Western Australia, Register of Heritage Places: Draft Register Entry and Assessment Documentation for Harvest House, ref: P3925, 27 November 2020. • City of Perth, Heritage Place Record Detail for Harvest House, June 2001. • City of Perth, Precinct Plan No.10 West Perth, 11 April 2017 • Parliament House Planning Precinct Policy, Planning Bulletin July 1983. • Site visit undertaken on 04 November 2020 to assess overall heritage context. 1.3 Subject Site Located in West Perth, the subject site is within the City of Perth, approximately 1km west of the Perth CBD. The site is bound by existing commercial development to the north and west, Harvest Terrace to the east and Parliament Place to the south. The grounds of the Parliament of Western Australia are Heritage Impact Statement | Harvest Terrace, West Perth | December 2020 5 located immediately east and Harvest House (No.7 Harvest Terrace) to the north. There are currently two single storey buildings located on the site at No.1 and No.5 Harvest Terrace. The property at No.3 Harvest Terrace has been demolished and cleared creating a vacant lot. The subject site rises up in a southwards direction along Harvest Terrace and remains relatively flat along Parliament Place. The surrounding built-up urban landscape is a varied mix of low-rise commercial and office buildings in the vicinity of Hay Street, and multi-storey residential developments on Malcolm Street. The hillside to the south of Parliament Place is predominantly open space which includes the reserve on which Dumas House, the Old Observatory and the former Hale School buildings are located. As part of the City of Perth’s Planning Scheme No.2, the site is included within Precinct Plan No.10 West Perth, which also includes a Metropolitan Region Scheme Clause 32 area that defines the spatial boundaries of Parliament House Precinct. The site is located within the inner precinct boundary of this area that was established in order to protect the prominence of Parliament Hill and its relationship to the city centre, as well as the need to control the aesthetic aspect of development in the vicinity of Parliament House. Refer to figure 1 for location plan, figure 2 for a site plan showing the proposal in relation to its heritage context, and figure 3 for location within the boundaries of the Parliament House Precinct. Figure 1. Location Plan (image courtesy of Rowe Group). 6 Dar Studio | Architecture + Heritage HARVEST HOUSE NO.7 HARVEST TERRACE REF: P3925 STATE REGISTER OF HERITAGE PLACES (ASSESSMENT PROGRAM) NO.1 & 5 HARVEST TERRACE NO STATUTORY HERITAGE LISTING NO.3 HARVEST TERRACE (VACANT LOT) SUBJECT SITE NO.1, 3 & 5 HA HARVEST TERRACE Y STREET PARLIAMENT PLACE VEST TERRACE HAR Y A HALE SCHOL (FMR) SOLIDARTY PARK MITCHELL FREEW VELOCK STREET HA THE OLD OBSERVATORY MALCOLM STREET DUMAS HOUSE KINGS P ARK ROAD N LEGEND Adjacent Heritage Listed Places in PARLIAMENT HOUSE & GROUNDS Close Proximity to Site NO.4 HARVEST TERRACE REF: P2239 STATE REGISTER OF HERITAGE PLACES Subject Site Figure 2. Site Plan showing subject site in context of heritage places (base aerial map by Landgate, 2020). Heritage Impact Statement | Harvest Terrace, West Perth | December 2020 7 GSPublisherVersion 0.0.100.100 Figure 3. Parliament House Precinct (image courtesy of Rowe Group). 8 Dar Studio | Architecture + Heritage 2. Heritage Status and Significance 2.1 Heritage Listings Parliament House & Grounds The following list summarises the heritage listings relevant to Parliament House & Grounds. Register / Listing Name Date Statutory Listing WA State Register of Heritage Places Parliament House & Grounds (Ref: P2239) 05 Nov 2020 (Permanent Entry) City of Perth’s Local Government Parliament House & Grounds 13 Mar 2001, (Municipal) Heritage Inventory, 26 June 2001 subsequently on Heritage List Register / Listing Name Date Non-statutory Listing Register of the National Estate Parliament House & Grounds (indicative place) Classified by the National Trust (WA) Parliament House & Grounds 11 Oct 2004 Harvest House (No.7 Harvest Terrace) The following list summarises the heritage listings relevant to Harvest House. Register / Listing Name Date Statutory Listing WA State Register of Heritage Places Harvest House (Ref: P3925) 27 Nov 2020 (Assessed - Stakeholder Consultation) City of Perth’s Local Government Harvest House 13 Mar 2001, (Municipal) Heritage Inventory, Historical Place Name: Kalmeta 26 June 2001 Heritage List Heritage Impact Statement | Harvest Terrace, West Perth | December 2020 9 Parliament House Precinct (Inner Boundary) There is no formal heritage listing for this area but is nevertheless considered to be of cultural heritage significance within which the subject site is located. No.1 and No.5 Harvest Terrace Both these places have no statutory or non-statutory heritage listing. As a precursor to this development they were assessed by the Heritage Council of Western Australia under the Government Heritage Property Disposal Process (GHPDP). This involved a preliminary review of both places to ascertain their cultural heritage significance through historical research and analysis.