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Nominating a state heritage place

Individuals or organisations can nominate a place as being of state 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 significance, it will be entered in the Register by the Register Committee of the South Australian Heritage Council.

The Council and the Register Committee are bodies established under the Heritage Places Act 1993. Heritage places are first provisionally entered, to allow a period for any representations from the public, and subsequently either confirmed or removed.

The Minister for 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, however, only the Heritage Council can remove it.

More information:

• entering a place into the South Australian Heritage Register (84kb pdf)
• download a nomination form (556kb doc)
• download an example nomination form (710kb pdf). This document is a sample only and not a benchmark of what nominators are expected to complete.