{"id":16495,"date":"2022-05-07T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2022-05-07T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:08:17","slug":"lord-mayor-emeritus-of-newcastle-greg-heys-significant-planning-document-collection-catalogued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/lord-mayor-emeritus-of-newcastle-greg-heys-significant-planning-document-collection-catalogued\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Mayor Emeritus of Newcastle Greg Heys\u2019 significant planning document collection catalogued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A key chapter of Newcastle\u2019s social and regional planning history has been preserved with the completion of the Greg Heys Regional Planning Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 1,400 documents \u2013 including local urban and rural area studies and reports, project proposals and assessments, environmental studies, and the complete set of the original coloured zoning maps for the Northumberland County District Planning Scheme prepared in 1952 \u2013 have been catalogued at Newcastle Libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The archives are the life\u2019s work of former Newcastle Lord Mayor, the late Greg Heys, who studied extensively in these fields and had almost completed a PhD thesis on Regional Governance when he passed away in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small celebration was jointly held by City of Newcastle and the Planning Institute of Australia Hunter Branch on Thursday evening to mark the project\u2019s completion, more than a decade in the making, acknowledging the collaborative efforts of the city\u2019s librarians, the Hunter Planners Network, and Greg\u2019s wife and former Lady Mayoress, Wendy Heys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Lord Mayor Cr Declan Clausen said thanks to their tireless work sorting and processing dozens of boxes of documents, these significant items would be available in perpetuity for research and historical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGreg Heys was a passionate and devoted town planner, working at the Bathurst-Orange Growth Centre as a social planner from 1976 to 1980, and today\u2019s event recognises his contributions to our built form as well as Mrs Heys\u2019 ongoing advocacy,\u201d Cr Clausen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d also like to acknowledge City of Newcastle\u2019s librarians, in particular Sue Ryan, who have dedicated countless hours to this incredible undertaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Heys echoed these sentiments, adding, \u201cThis collection came about through volunteer efforts, especially Len Regan\u2019s, a transport planner with whom Greg worked at the Bathurst-Orange Growth Centre. This is also an opportunity to acknowledge the breadth of the task Newcastle Library undertook and is a fitting tribute to Greg\u2019s dedication to regional planning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of Newcastle will now explore digitising the extensive collection using its state-of-the-art archival grade scanner, the only one of its kind outside of the University of Melbourne. This will allow anyone to access these documents online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning Institute of Australia\u2019s State Manager NSW, Karen Goldsmith, said the collection provided a permanent home for planning documents that held regional significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Planning Institute is proud to have played a part in this important project, carrying on Greg Heys\u2019 legacy,\u201d Ms Goldsmith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Northumberland County District Planning Scheme, for example, was the first planning scheme in the Hunter Region and set the vision for the region\u2019s growth. As far as we know, it may be the only set of these plans still in existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This latest project milestone provides scope to add Newcastle and Hunter material to the collection in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A key chapter of Newcastle\u2019s social and regional planning history has been preserved with the completion of the Greg Heys Regional Planning Collection. More than 1,400 documents \u2013 including local urban and rural area studies and reports, project proposals and assessments, environmental studies, and the complete set of the original coloured zoning maps for the … Continue reading “Lord Mayor Emeritus of Newcastle Greg Heys\u2019 significant planning document collection catalogued”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16496,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}