Heritage Policies Review
Applies to all properties within an existing Heritage Overlay.
Amendment background
The City of Melbourne prepared and exhibited Amendment C258 to the Melbourne Planning Scheme to modernise and update heritage practice in the City.
Amendment C258 proposes to:
- Revise the local heritage planning policies Clauses 22.04 (Heritage Places within the Capital City Zone) and 22.05 (Heritage Places Outside the Capital City Zone) in the Melbourne Planning Scheme.
- Introduce a new Heritage Precinct Statements of Significance incorporated document, which comprises the statements of significance currently included within clause 22.04 (Heritage Places within the Capital City Zone) and introduces new statements of significance for the six existing large heritage precincts outside the Capital City Zone of Carlton, East Melbourne and Jolimont, North Melbourne and West Melbourne, Parkville, South Yarra and Kensington.
- Replace the ‘A to D’ letter grading system with the ‘Significant/Contributory/Non-Contributory’ category system.
- Apply the Heritage Overlay, and incorporate statements of significance, to new places in West Melbourne assessed to be of heritage significance in the West Melbourne Heritage Review 2016.
The land affected by Amendment C258 is all land within the Melbourne municipal area affected by a Heritage Overlay and land in West Melbourne.
Council adopted Planning Scheme Amendment C258 Heritage Policies Review and West Melbourne Heritage Review at its meeting on Tuesday 25 February 2020.
The Future Melbourne Committee of Council considered the independent Planning Panel Report and revised Amendment documents at its meeting on Tuesday 18 February 2020.
Find out more about the amendment adoption in the FAQ below.
Amendment C258 has been approved by the Minister for Planning.
Notice of approval of Amendment C258 was published in the Government Gazette on 10 July 2020.
The amendment now forms part of the Melbourne Planning Scheme. The approved amendment is available at the Amendment C258 page of Planning Scheme Amendments Online.
Panel hearing
The Amendment C258 Panel Hearing has concluded. The Melbourne Planning Scheme Amendment C258 Panel Report was issued on 21 May 2019. Read the Panel Report.
Panel documents:
- Panel further directions of 21 September 2018
- Panel directions of 14 November 2018
- Panel directions of 4 December 2018
- Panel Directions of 15 January 2019 (includes timetable version 7 and revised circulation list)
- Panel hearing timetable (version 6)
- Panel Document List
- Download Directory (Panel’s document list)
The documents listed below are the exhibited documents of Amendment C258:
- Explanatory Report
- Instruction Sheet
- Clause 22.04 – Heritage Places within the Capital City Zone
- Clause 22.05 – Heritage Places outside the Capital City Zone
- Schedule to Clause 43.01 – Heritage Overlay
- Schedule to Clause 43.01 – Heritage Overlay (with track changes)
- Schedule to Clause 81.01 – Table of documents incorporated in this scheme
- Schedule to Clause 81.01 – Table of documents incorporated in this scheme (with track changes)
- Map – West Melbourne Heritage Review Heritage Overlay Deletions
- Map – West Melbourne Heritage Review Heritage Overlay Additions
- Incorporated document – Heritage Places Inventory 2017 (corrected for re-exhibition, November 2017)
- Incorporated document – Heritage Precincts Statements of Significance 2017
- Incorporated document – West Melbourne Heritage Review Statements of Significance 2016
- Supporting document – West Melbourne Heritage Review 2016
For Expert Witness Statements (evidence) circulated by submitters during the Panel Hearing, see:
- (Supplementary Evidence) King & Wood Mallesons for Melbourne Business School - Submission No.22
- Best Hooper for Sydney Road Holdings Pty Ltd (577-583 Little Collins Street, Melbourne) - Submission No.109
- Rigby Cooke Lawyers for Bennetts Lane Custodians (17-21, 23 Bennetts Lane and 134-144, 146-148 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne) - Submission No.104-107
- Best Hooper for Bardsville Pty Ltd (309-325 Bourke Street, Melbourne) - Submission No. 77
- Best Hooper for Domenico & Maria Patti (322 Walsh Street, South Yarra) - Submission No. 46
- Best Hooper for Lost Dog's Home (2 Gracie Street, North Melbourne) - Submission No. 76
- Best Hooper for Shaun Driscoll & Margaret Bradshaw (159-161 Roden Street, West Melbourne) - Submission No. 43
- Best Hooper for Stadiums Pty Ltd (300 Dudley Street, West Melbourne) - Submission No. 75
- Best Hooper for Stanley Street Holdings Pty Ltd (210 Stanley Street, West Melbourne) - Submission No. 99
- Department of Justice (317 Spencer Street, West Melbourne) - Submission No. 58
- Goldsmiths Lawyers for 613 King Street Pty Ltd & Trevor Nominees Pty Ltd - Submission No. 21
- HWL Ebsworth for Dustday Investments Pty Ltd and Botex Pty Ltd - Submission No. 30 & 31
- King & Wood Mallesons for Melbourne Business School - Submission No. 22
- Norton Rose Fulbright for Oliver Hume Property Funds (164-184 Roden Street, West Melbourne) - Submission No. 38
- Norton Rose Fulbright for University of Melbourne - Submission No. 65
For access to submissions and supporting documents circulated by submitters during the Panel Hearing, refer to the Download Directory for documents listed in the Panel's Document List.
For Submissions and Expert Witness Statements (Evidence) circulated by Council during the Panel Hearing, see:
Council Submissions
- Council’s Part A Submission
- Council’s Part B Submission
- Council's Part B Submission (Response to Additional Submissions)
- Council's Part C Submission
For access to further supporting documents circulated by Council during the Panel Hearing please refer to the Download Directory for documents listed in the Panel’s Document List.
Council Evidence
- Anita Brady - Lovell Chen (Supplementary - February 2019)
- Sophie Jordan (Supplementary - February 2019)
- Anita Brady – Lovell Chen
- Anita Brady – Lovell Chen (Attachment 4)
- David Helms
- Graeme Butler
- Scott Hartley
- Scott Hartley (Addendum)
- Sophie Jordan
Document library
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West Melbourne Heritage Review, Graeme Butler & Associates 2016
Please note, this document is 1,700 pages and contained within a May 2016 report to the Future Melbourne Committee. It is divided here into two parts.
