Heritage Schedule Review Stage 1

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Council has an ongoing role in managing and conserving the broad range of natural and cultural heritage sites throughout the Local Government Area (LGA). There are 475 heritage items and 9 Conservation Areas currently listed in Schedule 5 of the Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 with associated curtilages mapped in the LEP Heritage Maps.

The Wollongong Local Environmental Plan came into force on the 26 February 2010 and has now been in force for over ten years. As an outcome of the detailed review of items a large number of necessary housekeeping amendments to the heritage schedule have been identified to ensure that Schedule 5 is up to date and that errors are corrected.

State Heritage Inventory

As part of Stage 1 of the review all the Local Heritage Inventory Forms have been updated. The Inventory Forms are managed through the State Heritage Inventory. You can access this information via an address or suburb search though the Heritage NSW website at https://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/search-for-heritage/search-for-nsw-heritage/

Proposed amendments

The proposed house keeping amendments to the Local Environmental Plan are essential to ensure that Council’s Heritage Staff have accurate heritage information to assist with customer enquiries, development applications, planning proposals and are able to provide advice on various Council projects. The types of minor amendments required to address various administrative issues in the listing include the following:

  • Amending spelling errors in item names;
  • Amending errors in addresses and listed suburbs;
  • Adding Lot and DP numbers to capture the full extent of an items curtilage due to shifting property boundaries or incorrect descriptions from 2009;
  • Deleting Lots and DP’s to reflect changes in property descriptions such as subdivisions that have reduced the curtilage of an item since 2009;
  • Changing the level of significance of items from local to state to reflect the state listing of items under the NSW Heritage Act 1977;
  • Removal of a small number of items that have been demolished or are now covered by other heritage legislation; and
  • Relisting of 2 items that are mapped as heritage items in the LEP Heritage Maps but do not appear on Schedule 5 due to an administrative error


Who can make a submission?

Anyone can make a submission about the review. However if you are a Heritage Property Owner that is affected by a proposed amendment you will receive a letter from Council advising you what steps you need to take before making a submission.

If you would like to provide any additional information or advise of any corrections required to the NSW State Heritage Inventory form for your (or any) property please submit a comment through the form below.

Before making your submission - read the following in the Document Library

To make a submission you can either

Please read Council's Privacy Notification before submitting your feedback.

Submissions close 19 August 2020.


Council has an ongoing role in managing and conserving the broad range of natural and cultural heritage sites throughout the Local Government Area (LGA). There are 475 heritage items and 9 Conservation Areas currently listed in Schedule 5 of the Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 with associated curtilages mapped in the LEP Heritage Maps.

The Wollongong Local Environmental Plan came into force on the 26 February 2010 and has now been in force for over ten years. As an outcome of the detailed review of items a large number of necessary housekeeping amendments to the heritage schedule have been identified to ensure that Schedule 5 is up to date and that errors are corrected.

State Heritage Inventory

As part of Stage 1 of the review all the Local Heritage Inventory Forms have been updated. The Inventory Forms are managed through the State Heritage Inventory. You can access this information via an address or suburb search though the Heritage NSW website at https://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/search-for-heritage/search-for-nsw-heritage/

Proposed amendments

The proposed house keeping amendments to the Local Environmental Plan are essential to ensure that Council’s Heritage Staff have accurate heritage information to assist with customer enquiries, development applications, planning proposals and are able to provide advice on various Council projects. The types of minor amendments required to address various administrative issues in the listing include the following:

  • Amending spelling errors in item names;
  • Amending errors in addresses and listed suburbs;
  • Adding Lot and DP numbers to capture the full extent of an items curtilage due to shifting property boundaries or incorrect descriptions from 2009;
  • Deleting Lots and DP’s to reflect changes in property descriptions such as subdivisions that have reduced the curtilage of an item since 2009;
  • Changing the level of significance of items from local to state to reflect the state listing of items under the NSW Heritage Act 1977;
  • Removal of a small number of items that have been demolished or are now covered by other heritage legislation; and
  • Relisting of 2 items that are mapped as heritage items in the LEP Heritage Maps but do not appear on Schedule 5 due to an administrative error


Who can make a submission?

Anyone can make a submission about the review. However if you are a Heritage Property Owner that is affected by a proposed amendment you will receive a letter from Council advising you what steps you need to take before making a submission.

If you would like to provide any additional information or advise of any corrections required to the NSW State Heritage Inventory form for your (or any) property please submit a comment through the form below.

Before making your submission - read the following in the Document Library

To make a submission you can either

Please read Council's Privacy Notification before submitting your feedback.

Submissions close 19 August 2020.


  • A summary of the proposed amendments appears in the document library on this webpage.  The 41 page summary includes over 200 changes listed across 5 different tables as below:


    Table 1: Proposed removals due to demolition or reassessment of significance

    Table 2: Proposed removals due to item listed in a SEPP 

    Table 3: Proposed additions

     Table 4: Minor Corrections to listing 

    Table 5: Proposed Mapping Changes 


    Understanding your feedback is important to us and we want to ensure we can easily identify which of the items on the register your comments refer to.  

    We ask that you provide the street address of each of the items you refer to in your submission.  This is particularly important if you are commenting on multiple items across the 5 different tables.

    The addresses of the items under review appear in the each of the 5 tables in the Summary document.    



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