Wyndham Heritage Review

We've been working to protect Wyndham's important heritage

Heritage provides us with important evidence of how our community has evolved and developed over time.

As a region with high growth, heritage is particularly important to Wyndham as a touchstone to the past and a key contributor to a strong sense of place in our communities. There are pressures on our special heritage places due to development and competing strategic objectives such as infrastructure provision and housing growth.

Council must manage these pressures on our heritage to protect the places that make Wyndham special, and ensure that development is sensitive to identified heritage values.

The Wyndham Heritage Review is an important opportunity to protect places of local heritage significance in the face of unprecedented growth, to strengthen the City’s unique character, and to celebrate the history of Wyndham with our community.

Projects underway

Wyndham Heritage Review: Residential Places & Precincts

In 2022, Council engaged Lovell Chen heritage consultants to prepare a detailed heritage study assessing the 87 individual residential places and 7 precincts originally identified in the Gap Study and provide recommendations for residential places and precincts that meet agreed heritage criteria and thresholds for heritage protection.

The Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2 (Residential Places and Precincts) identified 15 individual places and 1 precinct that meet the required criteria and thresholds for being of local heritage significance and are recommended to be protected through the Heritage Overlay.

The recommendations were adopted by Council at its meeting of 25 June 2024.

Council is now implementing the recommendations through Planning Scheme Amendment C270wynd .

Wyndham Heritage Review: Heritage Citations Review

Council has engaged heritage consultants Extent Heritage to review and update existing planning documentation for ninety-two (92) heritage places currently protected in the Wyndham planning scheme through their inclusion in the Heritage Overlay.

The project will involve fieldwork, historical research, and heritage assessments to prepare draft place citations and updated statements of significance.

The consultant will prepare a draft report outlining recommendations such as updated place citation reports, statements of significance, and proposed changes to mapping.

Community engagement on the recommendations will be undertaken in 2026.

Completed Projects

Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 1: Gap Study

The Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 1: Gap Study was adopted by Council on 21 June 2021 and set the work program for the Wyndham Heritage Review.

The Gap Study reviewed the existing Heritage Overlay, existing heritage resources, including unprotected heritage places across Wyndham, and identified a number of gaps in the protection of post contact heritage places in Wyndham.

The Gap Study recommended further investigation and detailed assessment of 173 Individual Sites, including residential, commercial, industrial, community, archaeological places, military and infrastructure related sites, landscapes and trees, complex places, comprised of multiple land parcels and new precincts.

The Gap Study also recommended corrections to existing heritage citations, and the preparation of detailed Thematic Environmental History for Wyndham.

At the 29 June 2021 Ordinary Council Meeting, Council resolved to adopt the Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 1 (Gap Study) and carry out the recommendations, commencing with the Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2 (Residential Places and Precincts).