Discretion in local heritage planning must be based on comprehensive, robust and evidence-based heritage advice. In parallel, homeowners benefit from engaging their own heritage advisors, because this enables a fuller case to be put to council – and VCAT – when discretion is exercised.

Across our projects, Heritage Workshop offers analytical and evidence-based perspectives towards a new consensus for housing and heritage.

Step closer, look deeper. What heritage stories lie within the bricks and mortar of our suburbs, streets, and homes? Too often, heritage...

Heritage Workshop contributes to the Inquiry into Victoria Planning Provisions.

Reflecting on Carlton and Fitzroy's diverse heritage, from high-rise social housing to creative warehouse conversions, we can reimagine heritage practices.

How do heritage places manage advertising? James Lesh on recent debates at Fed Square.

In the current planning, social and cultural climate, heritage needs to evolve. Let's look to history for guidance.

An extract from James Lesh's book 'Values in Cities' on the founding of the Australian National Trusts.

While it might make an irresistible newspaper headline, a single sentence cannot get a house heritage protected.

Heritage Workshop's submission to the new Plan For Victoria.

James Lesh writes about policy opportunities for strengthening Canberra's role in urban heritage matters.

James Lesh's 'Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia' a new book, has been released.

I am making a written submission on the relationship between cultural heritage and the national urban policy. Positively, the national...

An extract from James Lesh's book 'Values in Cities' on values-based conservation, both where it's come from, and where it's heading.

James Lesh reviews Cities in a Sunburnt Country for the Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine.

The City of Maribyrnong has abandoned its local heritage protections for interwar and postwar housing in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Why?

Heritage conservation has been blamed for making the housing crisis worse by standing in the way of new, higher-density housing. But protecting heritage and increasing housing should be complementary objectives.

Destruction, Development and Heritage at one site in Melbourne.

James Lesh reviews 'Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture'.

Does city size matter? What does Melbourne 'overtaking' Sydney as Australia's largest city tell us about urban rivalry?

The heritage of Queen Victoria Market is a historical question.

James Lesh reviews 'The Invention of Melbourne' and 'The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold'

My words on heritage appear in Architect Victoria magazine, Edition 3, 2022. I collaborated with Loren Adams, Felicity Watson, Kerstin...

Adopting new perspectives won’t only preserve our historic buildings and places by enabling us to shape them for today’s needs. It will also mean urban heritage can contribute to cities becoming more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.