Local Heritage List
A Heritage List, developed from the properties identified in the Local Heritage Survey, is an instrument that provides statutory protection under the planning framework when determining planning outcomes for heritage places.
In most instances, building and demolition work (with the exception of some minor works as specified in the draft Local Planning Policy) proposed to a property on the Heritage List will require development approval.
Having a property on the Heritage List does not necessarily prevent building works or improvements being made to the property, but may require a Heritage Assessment to be undertaken.
Town of Victoria Park Heritage List
The Town has prepared a Heritage List and associated Local Planning Policy (which can be found under the Policy page).
Local Heritage Survey
The Local Heritage Survey (previously known as the Municipal Heritage Inventory) is a guiding document outlining the heritage value of various historic buildings throughout the Town.
The Heritage Act 2018 (Heritage Act) requires each local government to identify places of cultural heritage significance in a local heritage survey. The Local Heritage Survey does not form part of the Town Planning scheme, however it provides a thematic framework that has identified places of local historical and cultural significance.
Local Heritage Survey 2021
Municipal Heritage Inventory
In 1990 the Western Australian Government passed the Heritage of Western Australia Act, which under section 45, required “local government to compile etc. inventory of buildings with cultural heritage significance” and so it was in 1996 that the newly reformed Town of Victoria Park began the process of community consultation and the hiring of a heritage consultant to prepare the Town’s first list of historical places.
The Municipal Heritage Inventory or MHI, whilst superseded by the Local Heritage Survey (Heritage Act 2018) is still a great resource for information, and the Town of Victoria Park Municipal Heritage Inventory that was published in June 2000 is no exception. The MHI features over 180 original photographs of sites on the heritage list as they were in the period 1996-2000. A valuable record has thus been made of those years in history also.
Please note that a full colour scanned copy of the MHI is being made and will be added to this site in the near future. In the meantime the below PDF is the best copy we have available in digital format.
Municipal Heritage Inventory