ACT Heritage Guidelines

Please note the public consultation period on the draft ACT Heritage Guidelines has closed.

In making heritage guidelines, the ACT Heritage Council will now consider any comments made to the Council about the proposed guidelines.

These draft Guidelines provide a consistent and accessible set of requirements to protect and manage historic heritage places (registered, provisionally registered or nominated for provisional registration in the Heritage Register) in the Australian Capital Territory. These guidelines do not apply to registered heritage precincts for which specific guidelines are already in force. Additional guidelines are in development for Aboriginal Heritage, Natural Heritage and Heritage Objects. These guidelines directly affect the advice given by the Heritage Council to the ACT Planning and Land Authority about the impact of development applications on heritage significance, particularly in relation to determining ways of avoiding or minimising the effect of a development on the heritage significance of the places and objects.

View a copy of the draft ACT Heritage Guidelines:
ACT Heritage Guidelines ( PDF 1.0 MB)