OUR HERITAGE AT RISK

              - DEVELOPING THE NATIONAL TOP 10 LIST

Our Heritage at Risk  was developed from the National Trust Endangered Places program and remains focused as a community education program. Its objective is to create greater community awareness of heritage issues and engagement resulting in better heritage conservation and better knowledge of government and non-government heritage organisations.

After the public announcement of State and Territory Our Heritage At Risk lists on 18 April, those assessed as being most at risk were submitted to a national judging panel. This short list was then assessed against the criteria by  to compile the Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 list. This selection was coordinated by the Australian Council of National Trusts.

As in any selection process there was a wide variety of opinion on the types and immediacy of the risks faced by sites. From the beginning it was acknowledged that whether or not a site was eventuallyt selected for a Top 10 listing, every site on a State Our Heritage At Risk list remained at risk and was worthy of community attention and concern until the risk factors were ameliorated or removed. The choice of the final Top 10 was a challenge given the dynamic nature of potential threats, planned but not implemented remedial action and changing development timetables.

The following sites were considered for entry on Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 list which was announced in Hobart, Tasmania on 3 November 2007. The final selection represented a considered opinion of a representative but not necessarily definitive list of places most at risk at a given point in time in 2007.

Register Of The National Estate	Canberra Garden City
Heritage Places In Canberra	Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station
Cameron Offices	Ku-ring-gai Urban Conservation Areas – Blue Gum High Forest
Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Redfern	Hammerhead Crane, Potts Point
Neglected Heritage Listed Buildings	William Street Heritage Precinct (Northbank), Brisbane
Commonwealth-owned heritage places	Archerfield Airport Heritage Precinct, Brisbane
Port of Adelaide Maritime Heritage	Lower Lakes and Coorong
Holy Trinity Church – North Hobart	Lady Franklin Museum Lenah Valley Road – Lenah Valley
“Lauderdale Cottage" – New Town	Post 1950s Architecture in Victoria
Melbourne’s Green Wedges	HMVS Cerberus
Barwon Sewer Acquaduct	Historic Archaeological Sites
Dampier Rock Art	Industrial Machinery - East Perth Power Station
Adelaide Parklands - Victoria Park

 Trust News Australia - August 2007 Article