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Nominating a state heritage place

Individuals or organisations can nominate a place as being of state heritage significance. A nomination can also come from heritage or public survey recommendations.

Nominated places are assessed and acting on advice from DENR, if a nominated place is considered to be of state heritage significance, it will be provisionally entered in the Register by the Register Committee of the South Australian Heritage Council.

Heritage places are first provisionally entered, to allow a period for any representations from the public, and subsequently either confirmed or removed by the Council.

The Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation can require a place to be removed from provisional entry if its confirmation is judged to be 'contrary to the public interest'. Once a place has been confirmed, only the Council can remove it.

The Council and the Register Committee are bodies established under the Heritage Places Act 1993.

More information:

• entering a place into the South Australian Heritage Register (84kb pdf)
• download a nomination form (488kb doc)
• download an example nomination form (722kb pdf). This document is a sample only and not a benchmark of what nominators are expected to complete.

The South Australian Heritage Council is committed to transparency in relation to the listing process and wishes to enhance public confidence in the decision making process. The council’s policy is to make nominations for State heritage listing publicly available to interested parties.

Below are most recent nominations for State heritage listing.

• Royal Adelaide Hospital (8.79mb pdf)
• Brownhill Creek Recreation Park (4.51mb pdf).