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.

For more information or to apply online, please see Heritage Restoration Grants.

Development Application Fee Waiver (NEW)

Owners of a rateable residential or commercial property, that is included in the City of Stirling Heritage List only, can apply for Development Application Fee Waivers when applying for a Heritage Restoration Grant, subject to meeting a number of requirements.

For more information or to apply online, please see Development Application Fees Waiver.

Heritage Rates Concessions

Owners of rateable residential and commercial properties included on the City’s Heritage List only can apply for a discount on their general rates charge, to assist with the care and maintenance of their property.

For more information or to apply online, please see Rates Concessions.

Technical Advice

The provision of pre-lodgement technical heritage advice for Heritage Listed properties only allows the City's Senior Heritage Officer to provide conservation and development advice on the property prior to a formal development application.

For more information or to apply online, please see Heritage Technical Advice Application Form.