Heritage and development

The City of Stirling’s Heritage Management Strategy aims to provide guidance on how the City will approach the management of our heritage buildings, sites and objects.

This will ensure that the City’s traditions, memories and places are identified and protected.

There are four key themes to the strategy which include:

• Understanding
• Protecting
• Sustaining
• Celebrating.

The City of Stirling has created a Heritage List within its Local Planning Scheme No. 3, identifying those places which are of cultural significance and worthy of conservation under the provisions of the Scheme. Part 7 of Local Planning Scheme No. 3 outlines the heritage list provisions.

The City of Stirling Heritage List contains properties considered to be of local cultural heritage significance and worthy of conservation. All applications involving development of properties on the heritage list will be assessed on their merits.

The City may require a heritage assessment to be carried out prior to the approval of any development. Applications involving demolition will be required to be referred to Council for consideration.

For more information, please phone our Customer Contact Centre on (08) 9205 8555.

Once a year, the City opens for nominations where properties on the City's Heritage List and those categorised as 1 or 2A on the City's Local Heritage Survey are encouraged to submit an application for one or more incentives in the City's Heritage Incentives Program. The incentives are:

Heritage Restoration Grant

Our heritage restoration grants have been developed to demonstrate the City of Stirling’s commitment to property owners who want to contribute to the retention and enhancement of buildings on the City’s heritage list and those categorised as 1 or 2A on the City's Local Heritage Survey.

Find out more information here.