The City of Onkaparinga is seeking the community’s feedback on a statutory amendment of its Local Heritage Places list, which would affect 89 places across the region.
Why is the council doing this?
The council is committed to the conservation of the region’s built heritage. Local Heritage listing of places is an important part of heritage conservation, helping ensure our past is preserved to tell the story to future generations.
Between 2020 to 2022, council completed a comprehensive city-wide review of Local Heritage Places – including structures, buildings or places that demonstrate important local historical attributes or contribute to the historical themes of a local area.
Following the review, council is now proposing to change the region’s list of Local Heritage Places (in what’s known as a Code Amendment) under the state’s Planning and Design Code.
What places would be affected?
The Code Amendment proposes change that affects 89 places, as follows:
- upgrade two representative buildings (buildings that display characteristics of importance in a particular area) to Local Heritage Places
- 43 places recommended for listing as Local Heritage Places
- 20 Local Heritage Places recommended for delisting
- 24 Local Heritage Places recommended for an amendment.
You can view a list and map of all the places, and share your feedback, at the council’s Your Say page until 5pm on Monday 17 March.
What would these changes mean?
A local heritage place demonstrates important local stories and contributes to the historical themes of the local area – being listed as a local heritage place is not about restricting any change to a property. The core aim of heritage listing is to encourage any additions and/or alterations to be sympathetic to the heritage place, its values, settings and streetscape.
A number of places are being proposed for delisting as they no longer meet the local heritage listing criteria. The delisting of a Local Heritage Place will result in the policies for development of/at a Local Heritage Place being removed. Any new development at these properties, however, will still need to comply with other zone policies relevant to the property.
In addition to the 89 affected places, a Heritage Adjacency Overlay is also proposed to apply to properties adjacent to new Local Heritage Places, and removed from places that are adjacent to properties delisted as Local Heritage Places.
Owners of properties in the adjacency overlay would need to be mindful that any new development they propose does not dominate or impact the heritage values of the neighbouring Local Heritage Place.
Next steps
The council will consider all feedback received during the engagement, and prepare a report outlining what was heard and how the proposed Code Amendment was changed in response to the submissions.
The report will then be presented to Council and subject to endorsement will be forwarded to the state government’s planning minister to either adopt the Code Amendment (with or without changes) or determine that the Code Amendment should not proceed.