CONSULTING

PLANNING

Urban and suburban growth combined with the creation of complex transportation networks has been steadily transforming the character of Ontario communities. Protecting cultural heritage buildings and landscapes has become especially important where landscape change has been occurring at an ever increasing rate, resulting in extensive losses of non-renewable heritage resources. The most effective means of protecting our cultural heritage is through adoption of planning and management guidelines that are informed by background historic research and evaluation.

George Munshaw House, City of Vaughan
In the Province of Ontario, heritage matters are guided by the Ontario Heritage Act and the Planning Act. One of the purposes of the Planning Act is to integrate matters of provincial interest in provincial and municipal planning decisions, and the consideration of cultural heritage features is a stated matter of provincial interest. The Planning Act and related Provincial Policy Statement make a number of provisions relating to heritage conservation. These matters of provincial interest shall be regarded when certain authorities, including the council of a municipality, carry out their responsibilities under the Act. One of these provincial interests is directly concerned with the conservation of features of significant architectural, cultural, historical, archaeological or scientific interest.

Decorative bargeboard and finial, City of Brampton

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