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SA Heritage Register

The South Australian Heritage Register is a list of places of heritage value to the state. It includes places and related objects of state significance and records other categories of heritage places in South Australia (including local, national and world heritage places) which are protected under legislation.

In response to heritage survey recommendations or nominations from the public, and acting on advice from DENR, places deemed of state significance are entered in the South Australian Heritage Register by the South Australian Heritage Council. These places must satisfy one or more of the criteria outlined in the Heritage Places Act 1993.

Places assessed of state heritage significance are first provisionally entered for three months, to allow a period for any public representations, and subsequently either confirmed or removed from the South Australian Heritage Register by the South Australian Heritage Council.

There are over 2,215 confirmed state heritage places entered in the Register. In addition, 17 state heritage areas have been designated, 13 under the now repealed South Australian Heritage Act 1978 and four under the Development Act 1993.

The Heritage Places Act 1993 also requires that the Register includes:

• local heritage places designated by a development plan
• local heritage zones and policy areas designated by a development plan
• places within the state entered in any register of places of natural or historic significance kept under the law of the Commonwealth (ie the Register of the National Estate, the Commonwealth Heritage List, National Heritage List and declared World Heritage Properties)
• state heritage areas
• heritage agreements made under the Heritage Places Act 1993.

More about:

• how to nominate state heritage places for the Register
• highlights of places in the Register (75kb pdf).