Seventy Three City properties recommended as Local Heritage Places

Why is it Significant?

These properties are mostly houses in the southern residential parts of the City of Adelaide square mile and were recommended for heritage listing on the basis of meeting one or more of the Local Heritage Criteria in the Development Act 1993, by Adelaide City Council and independent Heritage consultants Donovan & Associates. However, the State Government Minister applied additional criteria over and above those specified in the legislation and removed them from the list before even going to public consultation.

Why is it at Risk?

The Minister has not adopted the Local Heritage survey recommendations (only 84 of the original 180 properties recommended by the Council were initially accepted with just another 23 to be considered in a 2nd part of the process). Already some of these properties are subject to development applications, while in other cases owners want them listed.  It remains to be seen how many of a further 250 buildings in the commercial part of the city will be omitted.

What needs to be done?

The buildings should be heritage Listed on the basis of meeting one or more of the Local Heritage Criteria in the Development Act 1993.