Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares Heritage Assessment

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28/11/2017 Update: View the summary of the consultation results for the Adelaide Parklands and City Squares Heritage Assessment consultation here (169 KB).

09/08/2017 Update: This page has been edited to make it clearer how your input will be used. You can see the previous content here.

Have your say on the importance and social value of the Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares to inform how best to manage the Park Lands into the future.

Why are we asking what you value about the Adelaide Park Lands?

The heritage significance of the Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares is currently being assessed, prior to them being considered for entry in the South Australian Heritage Register.

In parallel to this assessment the community are being given an opportunity to express its views about the heritage value and importance of the Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares.

How will your input be used?

The information you provide will be made available to the South Australian Heritage Council, Adelaide City Council, the Adelaide Park Lands Authority, and others involved in the management of the Park Lands.

Get involved

You can have your say by:

• completing the online survey
• joining the discussion
• sending in a written submission via hamish.angas@sa.gov.au or post to: Hamish Angas, Senior Heritage Officer, State Heritage Unit, Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources, GPO Box 1047, ADELAIDE SA 5001.

Make sure you provide your feedback before comments close at 5.00 pm on Friday 29 September 2017.

Background

Anyone can nominate a place or object in South Australia to be considered for state heritage-listing. In order to determine if a place or object has state heritage significance, it will be assessed against certain criteria by the South Australian Heritage Council.

The State Heritage Unit in the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources is responsible for the management of State Heritage Places and State Heritage Areas within South Australia. It also provides policy advice and heritage assessments to the South Australian Heritage Council for their decision making.

The State Heritage Unit has recently commissioned a comprehensive assessment of the heritage values of the Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares (see Project Brief) as a cultural landscape, informed by a physical inspection and historical research. In assessing their heritage significance, rigorous assessment against the criteria under the Heritage Places Act 1993 will be required. This assessment process is to ensure that they are of state heritage significance before consideration by the Council for entry in the South Australia Heritage Register as a State Heritage Place.

The “Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout” is already entered in the National Heritage List, having been nominated by the City of Adelaide and is one of the first places to be Nationally-listed, in November 2008. While a number of individual places within the Park Lands are State and Local Heritage Places, the Park Lands as a whole have not been assessed for their heritage value at a State level.

Find out more about the Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares heritage assessment here.