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Re-Thinking Heritage and Housing: Register Now for the Walking Tour
As part of the Australian Heritage Festival 2025, Heritage Workshop + Andever are hosting a free walking tour event in Melbourne.
Apr 41 min read


Housing, Heritage, Density: Panel Event
Join Heritage Workshop and an esteemed panel for this Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Australian Heritage Festival Event.
Mar 311 min read

A single sentence cannot get a house heritage protected, but that doesn’t mean Boroondara has done everything right by its local heritage
While it might make an irresistible newspaper headline, a single sentence cannot get a house heritage protected.
Aug 30, 20243 min read


Heritage Workshop on Developing a new Plan for Victoria
Heritage Workshop's submission to the new Plan For Victoria.
Aug 22, 20244 min read


The future of Australian urban heritage policy
James Lesh writes about policy opportunities for strengthening Canberra's role in urban heritage matters.
Jul 1, 20241 min read


Planning, Housing, Pubs: In the Media
Over recent months, I’ve provided expert commentary to media outlets in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide .
Apr 11, 20241 min read

City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy
Check out Heritage Workshop's latest project: our contribution to the City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy.
Mar 2, 20241 min read


We must protect Melbourne’s 20th-century heritage – here’s how to do it right
The City of Maribyrnong has abandoned its local heritage protections for interwar and postwar housing in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Why?
Jul 14, 20234 min read


YIMBYs and NIMBYs unite! You can have both heritage protection and more housing
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.
Jul 11, 20234 min read

Moreland Report Receives Victorian Community History Award
James Lesh wins at the Victorian Community History Awards.
Oct 25, 20221 min read

What is worth keeping and who decides?
My words on heritage appear in Architect Victoria magazine, Edition 3, 2022. I collaborated with Loren Adams, Felicity Watson, Kerstin...
Oct 19, 20221 min read

Release of the "Report on the Place Name: Moreland"
The name “Moreland”, used to designate the municipality, road, and train station, has associational and financial links to slavery.
Apr 14, 20223 min read

A post-punk house in Richmond: in excess
Exploring a heritage-house in Richmond, which featured in the film Dogs in Space.
Mar 31, 20201 min read

Conservation Echoes in East Melbourne: A Walking Tour
Tracing a 1964 Heritage Itinerary!
Apr 19, 20181 min read


Preserving cities: how 'trendies' shaped Australia' urban heritage
In the 1960s-70s, the so-called 'trendies' changed how we think about inner suburban Australian heritage.
Nov 4, 20164 min read
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