ABSTRACT
In New South Wales (NSW), the Cumberland County Council, the newly created planning authority for Greater Sydney, invited local councils to identify their historic buildings, and in 1948 40 places were selected for preservation. The first council to identify buildings to be preserved was the Sydney City Council which prepared its Preservation Plan in 1971–1972. The Preservation Plan predated the series of state heritage acts, the first of which was the NSW Heritage Act (1977) which provided for Permanent Conservation Orders (PCOs) to be placed on buildings or sites to ensure their retention. Heritage acts have been introduced in the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania and finally the Australian Capital Territory. The best known New Zealand initiative to list a contemporary building as heritage occurred in the mid-1980s. The building was the Wellington Club (1969–1972), a gentlemen's club in the capital city by Roger Walker of Calder Fowler & Styles.
