Boroondara celebrates over 15,000 heritage places. The completion of our Municipal Wide Heritage Gap Study and the Heritage Action Plan 2016 led to 5,490 more properties being protected in the Heritage Overlay.
You can nominate properties for us to consider for heritage assessment.
We focus on properties and precincts not included in previous studies, or where new information is available.
Examples of new information could be historic details linking the property to a:
- significant event
- important local family
- reputable architect or builder.
You must include evidence of any new information, such as:
- Copies of architectural plans showing authorship by an architect of note.
- Excerpts of magazine or newspaper articles describing historical details of the property or the original owner, architect or builder.
We'll work towards heritage protection for properties that have the best chance of being added to the Heritage Overlay.
Nomination process
Before nominating a property for heritage assessment:
- Check if the property is already being investigated for heritage protection or is already in the Heritage Overlay. Use our interactive heritage gradings map on our Find Heritage Overlays, gradings and possible heritage places page.
- Learn about our process for accepting, considering and processing nominations in the Community Heritage Nomination Process Explanatory Notes below.
- Read the Privacy Statement below to understand how your personal information is stored, used and could be provided to the owner of the nominated property.
- Collect digital versions or links to evidence for your submission.
Community Heritage Nomination Process explanatory notes
Privacy Statement
We collect personal information as part of the heritage nomination. This is to help us assess the nomination and involve you in the process.
The personal information provided may also be used for reasonably related secondary purposes such as contacting you for other strategic planning projects.
We store personal information in secure central databases and share information among internal work areas to facilitate a more efficient customer experience across our business.
The details you provide in the heritage nomination, including names, may also be (but not only):
- published on our website as part of the project.
- provided to third party stakeholders, including property owners.
- included in Council and/or Delegated Committee meeting agendas which are published on our website.
Unless permitted or required by law (such as Freedom of Information Act 1982), personal information, such as contact details, will not be disclosed to any other external party without your consent. Note that a request made to us under the Freedom of Information Act may require your personal details to be released to an external party, such as the property owner.
All requests for access to personal information should be made to our Freedom of Information Officer. For more information, visit our Make a Freedom of Information request page.
If you do not provide your personal information we:
- may not accept your heritage nomination.
- will not be able to keep you updated on its progress.
- will not be able to request more information which we need to assess your nomination.
For more information about our Privacy and Data Protection Policy visit our Privacy page.