Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS)

Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS) in PDF format (3.8Mb)

The Heritage Asset Management Strategy process has been formulated by the NSW Heritage Office in consultation with the NSW State Treasury to assist state government agencies, including the universities, to conserve and maintain their assets. HAMS is the guiding document that describes how the heritage assets will be conserved and maintained.

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The University of Sydney has prepared this Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS) in accordance with the requirements of the NSW Heritage Act 1977.

This document responds to the State Agency Heritage Guide, issued by the Heritage Council of NSW in December 2004.

The Guide requires certain actions under Sections 170 and 170A of the Heritage Act 1977. The core elements include:

• agencies to integrate heritage asset management within overall asset management and service delivery, consistent with the recent Treasury requirement for a Total Asset Management Plan to be prepared by each agency, as part of its Results and Services Plan;
• completion by each agency of a Heritage Asset Management Strategy (HAMS), by 30th January 2006, to demonstrate how compliance with the Principles and Guidelines will be achieved in line with service delivery requirements and budget constraints;
• HAMS to outline when State agencies will complete their S.170 Heritage and Conservation Registers (Section 170 Registers);
• opportunities for State agencies to establish self management regimes leading to the delegation of Heritage Council approvals and/or exemptions from the need to obtain Heritage Council approvals.