Wollondilly Heritage Planning Proposal

Updating Our Local Heritage List

We are working on a refined Planning Proposal to update local heritage listings in the Wollondilly Local Environment Plan 2011.

Our aim is to ensure Wollondilly’s heritage places are properly identified, documented and managed, so they are conserved for the enjoyment of current and future generations.

This Planning Proposal has been shaped by the findings and recommendations of the Shire Wide Heritage Study and other relevant heritage studies, previous community consultation, decisions from the Local Planning Panel and elected Council, and a Gateway Determination from the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. We have also updated some of the inventory sheets based on input and feedback from the community.

The Public Exhibition stage in the process enables further opportunity to provide feedback before a final decision is made. The current proposal includes:

New Items

• 52 new heritage items
• Three new landscape conservation areas including Spaniards Hill, Vault Hill, and Appin Massacre Landscape Conservation Areas.

Revised Items

• Four items are amalgamated into two related items
• 48 amendments to existing items, to update item names, addresses, category and / or mapping
• A grading of ‘Local Significance’ has been added to all existing Conservation Areas.
• The extension of the existing Picton Conservation Area.

We are offering landowners / occupants of new sites under consideration the opportunity of an onsite visit by Council staff and an independent heritage professional. See the request form below or call us on 4677 1100.

This will help confirm if the item matches the proposed listing information. Council will further investigate and assess the proposed listings before a final decision is made.

Background

Need for Review: Council’s last Heritage Study was adopted in 1992, and after 30 years, the heritage study and listings are due for review. A review of the existing heritage list and identification of new items for protection is a direct action in Wollondilly 2040 – Local Strategic Planning Statement: Planning Priority 7 – Cultivating a Creative and Cultural Destination Connecting People with Places.

Studies: A pre-study community engagement project was undertaken in early 2022, in which a number of potential heritage items were nominated by the community for further investigation. This was called the ‘Protecting Our Heritage’ consultation. The Heritage Study project was divided into two stages. Stage 1 covered the localities of Appin, Thirlmere, Warragamba and Menangle and was undertaken in 2020-21. The Shire-Wide Heritage Study (Stage 2) was undertaken in 2022-23 and covered the remainder of the Shire. The aim of the heritage study project was to update existing heritage items already listed in the Wollondilly LEP, and identify potential new heritage items for listing, including suggestions we received from the pre-study community engagement.

The Planning Proposal: Preliminary notification of the Planning Proposal to update the heritage list was carried out from 18 September to 16 October 2023. The Planning Proposal was considered by the Local Planning Panel and Council in its December 2023 meetings. They resolved that the Planning Proposal should progress (with some revisions) to allow further investigation and assessment of each item. Gateway determination was granted by Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 29 January 2024.

View Documents

The exhibition documents can be viewed:

• Online: Under 'Heritage Planning Proposal Document'
• Council’s Customer Service Centre: 62-64 Menangle Street, Picton, during office hours
• Wollondilly Library: 42 Menangle Street, Picton, during opening hours.
• Dilly Wanderer Mobile Outreach
• Wollondilly Heritage Centre, The Oaks

Give Feedback

• Online: via feedback form below
• By email: council@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au
• By Post: Chief Executive Officer, Wollondilly Shire Council, PO Box 21, Picton NSW 2571
• In Person: hand delivered to Council’s Customer Service Centre

The closing date for submissions is Thursday 28 March 2024 at 5:00pm.

Delegation

Council has not been delegated as the Local Plan Making Authority to make this amendment.

Enquiries

Please contact Lisa Howard or Christopher Morris by phone: (02) 4677 1100 or email: strategic@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au from Council’s Strategic Planning Team.

Privacy

Council may be required to release your written comments or submissions to an applicant under the Government Information (Public Access) Act, 2009 or Local Government Act, 1993 that impose obligations on us to release documents in certain circumstances.