Conservation Management Plans

What is a Conservation Management Plan (CMP)?

The Queensland Government's Guideline: Heritage, Conservation Management Plans contains the following description:

A CMP is a practical tool that helps owners, managers and assessing authorities make sound decisions about conserving and managing heritage places.

It identifies the place’s cultural heritage significance, sets out conservation policies to protect the cultural heritage significance of the place in the light of change and provides a strategy for putting these policies into action.

A CMP will help guide planning and expenditure when changes to a heritage place are proposed. It can reduce delays when undertaking changes by ensuring that all heritage considerations and statutory obligations are addressed at an early stage. Good planning is a wise investment in every type of property management.