HERITAGE REPORTS & HistorICAL PLACE RESEARCH

Bronwyn Hanna History and Heritage offers:

  • Heritage nominations
  • Historical place research
  • Heritage significance assessment 
  • Conservation Management Plans (CMPs)
  • Heritage impact analysis
  • Research into the social and physical history of your suburban home
  • Sands Directory searches for individual properties (to establish the names of its occupants between 1858 and 1932) [$300 per ordinary search]
  • Family history research
  • Research the art history of your locality 

Dr Bronwyn Hanna (PhD, BA Hons, M.ICOMOS) has prepared or collaborated on many heritage reports for Australian heritage places of local, state, national and world significance such as:

  • Sydney Opera House (State Heritage Register listing and World Heritage listing)
  • Hyde Park Barracks (Conservation management plan history for Clive Lucas Stapleton Johnson)
  • ANZAC Memorial, Hyde Park (State Heritage Register listing )
  • El Alamein Fountain, Kings Cross (State Heritage Register listing )
  • NSW Parliament Building, Governor Macquarie’s “Rum Hospital” (Interpretation plan for Clive Lucas Stapleton Johnson)
  • Waverly Cemetery (Heritage Impact Statement for Clive Lucas Stapleton Johnson)
  • Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta (Conservation Management Plan history for Clive Lucas Stapleton Johnson)
  • Figtree House, Hunters Hill (Heritage Impact Statement for Clive Lucas Stapleton Johnson)
  • Wentworth Street Port Kembla (streetscape analysis for John Oultram Heritage Design)
  • Ryde Tram Memorial
  • Currawong Workers Holiday Camp (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Women’s College, University of Sydney (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Baronda Holiday House designed by Graeme Gunn (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Lyons House designed by Robin Boyd (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps / Baiame’s Ngunnhu (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Australian Catholic University campus (State Heritage Register listing )
  • Female Factory, Parramatta (National Heritagge List nomination)
  • ACDC House (or Young House), Burwood (National Trust nomination)
  • Lucas Heights Nuclear Energy Reactor Site, Lucas Heights (National Trust nomination)
  • Bini-shell library building at Ashbury Public School (National Trust nomination)
  • Lloyd Rees tensile bandstand at Lane Cove Plaza (National Trust nomination)
  • Hadley Park, Castlereagh (National Trust nomination)
  • 2003 commissioned report, online: “Re-gendering the landscape in New South Wales” (report for the NSW Government NPWS, Sydney, 2003 with a focus on the heritage town of Hill End). Online at: VIEW LINK
  • 2017 commissioned report, not published: “’Ridgewalk’ A History of Culture, Artists and Creativity in the Dandenong Ranges,” unpublished report commissioned by the Yarra RangesRegional Council, 2017.

Bronwyn also advocates for the heritage protection of places and precincts at risk of unsympathetic change or over-development through voluntary work in the Built Heritage Committee of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) and through community lobbying groups.