• Brochure: Phytophthora and Middle Head

• Sites Unseen

The Harbour Trust is preparing management plans for individual site precincts.

As each Management Plan is finalised and adopted by the Board, they will be made available on this website.

Click here to review the management plans that have been adopted to date.

This brochure gives tips on being a Bush Friendly Neighbour - what plants to grow, responsible pet care, conserving water, using 'friendly' pesticides and fertilisers, and reducing fire hazards.

The brochure has been cooperatively produced by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Manly and Mosman Councils, the NSW Fire Brigade and the Harbour Trust.

You can phone the Harbour Trust for a hardcopy of this brochure on (02) 8969 2100, or download the brochure and/or a poster.

Click here to download the Bush Friendly Neighbour brochure (PDF, 876kb )

Click here to download a poster (PDF, 600kb )

This brochure provides information about the water mould - Phytophthora cinnamomi - a cause of dieback that is affecting plants around Sydney Harbour foreshores.

The brochure outlines what the Harbour Trust and its partners in the Sydney Harbour Dieback Working Group are doing to appropriately manage it and prevent its spread.

Click here to download Phytophthora brochure (PDF, 122kb )

The Harbour Trust Update Newsletter is produced half-yearly to keep you informed of the Trust’s progress with developing plans for each of the sites.

It also has information on projects to provide public access to the sites and prepare them for future uses.

You can download and view each of our newsletters:

Update Newsletter - March 2008 (PDF, 576kb )

Update Newsletter - November 2007 (PDF, 634kb )

Update Newsletter - August 2007 (PDF, 569kb )

Update Newsletter - November 2006 (PDF, 576kb )

Update Newsletter - June 2006 (PDF, 435kb )

Update Newsletter - February 2006 (PDF, 445kb )

Update Newsletter - October 2005 (PDF, 575kb )

Update Newsletter - June 2005 (PDF, 148kb )

Update Newsletter - October 2004 (PDF, 294kb )

Update Newsletter - April 2004 (PDF, 353kb )

Update Newsletter - September 2003 (PDF, 211kb )

Update Newsletter - April 2003 (PDF, 153kb )

Update Newsletter - August 2002 (PDF, 201kb )

Update Newsletter - December 2001 (PDF, 116kb )

Update Newsletter - July 2001 (PDF, 212kb )

Update Newsletter - December 2000 (PDF, 148kb )

Written to accompany the Sites Unseen exhibition, on display at Customs House from 26 May to 2 September 2001, it looks at how the Harbour Trust is developing plans for the sites and the principles that underpin the planning.

The Sites Unseen booklet explores the 'sense of place' and valuable qualities for each of the sites, and puts forward proposals for activities that may occur on the sites in the future.

Click on the following to read:

• Entire Sites Unseen publication
  (PDF, 3Mb)

View individual sites:

• North Head Artillery School
  (PDF, 396kb )
• Middle Head-Georges Heights
  (PDF, 409kb )
• Woolwich Dock and Parklands
  (PDF, 454kb )
• Cockatoo Island
  (PDF, 308kb )
• Macquarie Lightstation
  (PDF, 68kb )
• Snapper Island
  (PDF, 93kb )

Launched in November 2000, this 50 page publication highlights the special and important qualities of the Trust lands.

It discusses what remains on these lands today, the history of how it came to be there and the principles behind deciding its future.

Click on the following to read:

• Acknowledgments, Forward, Preface (PDF, 447kb )
• Qualities of the Trust Lands (PDF, 1,793kb )
• Planning With the Whole Harbour In Mind (PDF, 2,096kb )
• Conclusion (PDF, 147kb )
• Natural and Historical Evolution of the Lands (PDF, 1,250kb )
• Credits (PDF, 94kb )