Introducing
Asteria Advisory
Dr MacLaren North is a heritage practitioner with over three decades of experience, providing the best strategic advice to guide your project through complex regulatory environments. His experience working for heritage regulators, owners of heritage assets and those developing sites with heritage issues provides him with a well-balanced understanding of the needs and complexities of commercial, industrial and residential projects.
An experienced project and people manager, Dr North can assemble the team of experts needed to deliver successful outcomes.
Expertise
Heritage advice,
law & policy
Developments
Industrial Heritage
Expert Advice
About
Dr MacLaren
North
Dr North has more than thirty years of heritage management
experience in Australia. He commenced his career in the NSW
Government, working in heritage roles for the regulator,
as an intra-governmental heritage consultant and as the
in-house heritage advisor to a major public utility.
In 2006, he left the public service to establish a series of
heritage consultancies: Futurepast Heritage Consulting (merged
2015), Extent Heritage (sold 2023) and Asteria Advisory
(established 2024).
His work has encompassed historical archaeology, built heritage,
infrastructure and industrial heritage and asset and property
portfolio management.
Heritage is an increasingly contested space, and planning is a
highly complex regulatory environment. While we keep expecting
that complexity to lessen, that never seems to eventuate.
Sound heritage advice is important in all stages of a project,
from conception to planning to approval to implementation.
Not having the right advice at the right time adds risk,
complexity and cost to projects.
Dr North's broad experience is able to provide
the strategic advice to best guide your project through these
complex issues. Including, if necessary, through a legal dispute.
He works with a network of similarly experienced heritage
practitioners – architects, planners, archaeologists, landscape
architects and indigenous heritage specialists – to provide
robust advice at the right points in the project cycle.
AND HERITAGE
(Land and Housing Corporation)