DRAFT Local Heritage Survey and Heritage List
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The Town is preparing a new Heritage Framework to protect the places of our past that are important to us and in telling the story of Mosman Park. The Town proposes to do this by introducing a new heritage framework and reviewing the documents we already have in place. The new Heritage Framework proposed consists of:
- A new Local Planning Policy (LPP) setting out how to manage heritage listed places that propose development.
- A revised Local Heritage Survey (LHS) to replace the current Municipal Inventory; and
- A revised heritage list;
Local Heritage Survey - (Previously Municipal Inventory- MI) identifies and records places that have a level of heritage significance. The significance of a heritage place is assessed against various heritage values (see FAQ’s for detail). A management category of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 is assigned to a place, with a category 1 being the highest level of significance. A Local Heritage survey is an ‘information only’ document and does not have any legal powers.
The Towns Revised Heritage List – The new Local Heritage Survey informs which heritage places in the Town are of the most significant by the assigned management categories. The Town proposes to include those places assigned with a management category 1, 2 and 3 on the Town’s Heritage List. The Town’s Heritage List is afforded legal powers under the Planning and Development Act 2005 (see FAQ’s for more detail).
Local Planning Policy 34 – Management of Heritage Places (LPP34) – The local planning policy has been developed to protect heritage places from development that have potential to impact on a heritage places values. Common aspects of development likely to impact heritage places have been identified with guidance and tools provided on how the Town expects you to avoid them.
The LPP also outlines the Town’s expectations with regard to information provided with a development application. This is to enable the Town to adequately assess what measures have been put in place to ensure that impacts of development have minor impact our most valued heritage places in the Town.
Why are we undertaking a review?
Since our last MHI was prepared and adopted in 2014, legislation has been revised from the Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990 to the Heritage Act 2018. The Heritage Act 2018 requires all local government authorities in Western Australia to survey all places in regard to heritage, and to periodically update that survey.
In response to this requirement the Town is reviewing the 2014 MHI to create a LHS. The Town has appointed specialist heritage consultancy, Element Advisory to assist the Town with this project.
*Please note, engagement on the development of this framework has occurred in different stages. Inline with our processes to engage within statutory requirements for advertising Local Planning Policies, separate project pages were created here on Your Say for the LPP34 and the heritage list and survey. Both project pages are linked so you can easily navigate between the two. Find the link on the right hand side of this project page under 'Related Projects' or click on the link below.
