David Helms Heritage Planning provides heritage planning and management advice to private and government clients in Victoria.

David Helms is a cultural heritage planner with over twenty years' experience who has a particular interest in the preparation of local government area studies and thematic histories, and also in the assessment of places with cultural landscape values such as gardens and parkland. He regularly appears as an expert witness at Independent Panels and VCAT hearings.

David Helms Heritage Planning offers a range of services including: 

• Historic research

• Heritage place and area assessments

• Expert witness services for Independent Panel and VCAT hearings

• Heritage advisory services for local government

• Heritage Overlay planning advice

• Heritage impact assessments

• Typological and thematic heritage studies

• Heritage management plans and strategies

• Hermes heritage database management

• Planning scheme amendments for heritage controls and policy