Heritage+Architecture+Building+Limitations

Certain buildings in the Melbourne CBD are very old and very important. To ensure the safety and preserve the building it is registered to become heritage listed. It may go through many inspections to see if the building is eligible. The building also has to tick quite a few boxes to even be close to being heeritage listed. These rules and regulations include:

The National Heritage criteria against which the heritage values of a place are assessed are:
 * 1) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history
 * 2) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history
 * 3) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history
 * 4) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of:
 * 5) a class of Australia's natural or cultural places; or
 * 6) a class of Australia's natural or cultural environments;
 * 7) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group
 * 8) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period
 * 9) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons
 * 10) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history
 * 11) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's importance as part of Indigenous tradition.
 * Note:** The cultural aspect of a criterion means the Indigenous cultural aspect, the non-Indigenous cultural aspect, or both.

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