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Ipswich Heritage Study (1992)
A vision to protect historic places for future generations led to the creation of a Heritage Action Plan for Ipswich. On 14 June 1990, Ipswich City Council adopted the Plan and made a commitment to the most ambitious heritage action then undertaken in Queensland and one of the most ambitious heritage programs undertaken anywhere in Australia.
One of the first steps identified (and indeed one of the most crucial) in Ipswich City Council's overall heritage program involved the need to undertake a comprehensive inventory of the City's heritage assets, with this work being undertaken between 1991 and 1992.
The resulting Ipswich Heritage Study had two principal aims: To identify, document and analyse places of cultural significance within the City of Ipswich. To make practical recommendations for the conservation and management of such places.
The University of Queensland was selected to undertake the study. A multidisciplinary team of 35 people, including practitioners with a wide range of expertise in the fields of history, architecture, town planning, archeology, anthropology and engineering, undertook the study.
Each of the 27,000 rateable properties comprising the 122 km area of the former City of Ipswich were inspected in the field.
The study was also comprehensive in its approach in that not only traditional sites of European cultural significance were studied but also indigenous sites and places of industrial significance. Industrial heritage was particularly targeted from the outset of the study due to the City's prominence as an early coal mining and manufacturing centre.
Read More At Ipswich LibrariesIpswich Heritage Study Vol. 1: Final ReportIpswich Heritage Study Vol. 2: Inventory of Heritage Items Aboriginal and IndustrialIpswich Heritage Study, Vol. 3: Inventory of heritage items, public, commercial and residential (Amberley to Ipswich)Ipswich Heritage Study, Vol. 4: Inventory of heritage items public, commercial and residential (Leichhardt to Woodend)