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                    Heritage place

                    Illustration of a row of three terrace houses of different styles, representing a heritage place
                    Understand what a heritage place is, as well as other key terminology around heritage grading. 

                    ​A heritage place has been assessed to have natural or cultural heritage value and can include a site, area or space, building or other works, structure, group of buildings, precinct, archaeological site, landscape, garden or tree.


                    Heritage precinct

                    A heritage precinct is an area which has been identified as having heritage value. It is identified as such in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay and mapped in the Planning Scheme Heritage Overlay Maps.

                    Illustration showing a combination of mostly significant or contributory heritage buildings forming a Heritage Overlay (HO) precinct


                    Individual heritage place

                    An individual heritage place is equivalent to a significant heritage place. It may be categorised significant within a heritage precinct. It may also have an individual Heritage Overlay control, and be located within or outside a heritage precinct.

                    An individual significant heritage place on a street corner surrounded by non-conttributory places


                    Significant streetscape

                    Significant streetscapes are collections of buildings outstanding either because they are a particularly well preserved group from a similar period or style, or because they are a collection of buildings significant in their own right.

                    A row of significant heritage place terrace houses of a similar style forming a significant streetscapea si


                    Aqua shading indicating a significant heritage placeSignificant heritage place

                    A significant heritage place is individually important at state or local level, and a heritage place in its own right. It is historic, aesthetic, scientific, social or spiritual significance to the municipality. A significant heritage place may be highly valued by the community; is typically externally intact; and/or has notable features associated with the place type, use, period, method of construction, siting or setting. When located in a heritage precinct a significant heritage place can make an important contribution to the precinct.

                    Orange shading indicating a contributory heritage placeContributory heritage place

                    A contributory heritage place is important for its contribution to a heritage precinct. It is of historic, aesthetic, scientific, social or spiritual significance to the heritage precinct. A contributory heritage place may be valued by the community; a representative example of a place type, period or style; and/or combines with other visually or stylistically related places to demonstrate the historic development of a  heritage precinct. Contributory places are typically externally intact, but may have visible changes which do not detract from the  contribution to the heritage precinct.

                    Page grey shading indicating a non-contrbutory placeNon-contributory place

                    A non-contributory place does not make a contribution to the cultural significance or historic character of the heritage precinct.


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