About Us

• The Heritage Branch
• DEH Heritage Highlights
• Location

The Heritage Branch of the South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage is responsible for the development of strategies and polices relating to the Department's Heritage program. The Department aims to identify, protect, conserve and promote State Heritage Places and Maritime Heritage within the context of relevant legislation - the Heritage Places Act 1993, the State Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981 and the Australian Government Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.

Other agencies deal with Aboriginal, archival, folklife or natural heritage, and with built heritage judged of local significance. See Guide to Heritage Agencies in South Australia.

The State's built and maritime heritage includes such places as wells, monuments, mine sites, shipwrecks and cemeteries as well as buildings. Significant geological, archaeological and palaeontological areas can also be protected.

The Heritage Branch

The Heritage Branch:

• Manages the South Australian Heritage Register which:
• lists places and related objects of State significance that meet one or more of the criteria specified in Section 16 of the Heritage Places Act 1993
• records other categories of heritage places in South Australia (including local, national and world heritage places) which are protected under other legislation


• Helps to identify, assess and conserve built heritage by:
• managing a survey and assessment program
• assessing and advising on the impact of development proposals on State Heritage Places
• providing advice about how best to conserve State Heritage Places.


• Helps to identify, assess and conserve our maritime heritage by:
• conducting regional surveys and collecting information from the community to identify South Australia's land-based and underwater maritime heritage sites.
• researching and surveying sites to assess their significance and developing conservation management plans for their protection
• providing a broader historical perspective through interpretation in the form of brochures, booklets, exhibitions and maritime heritage trails.


• Informs the community about South Australia's heritage by:
• producing a bi-annual newsletter, other publications and a web site
• organising lectures, seminars and events
• developing and supporting education programs for schools
• interpreting significant sites and structures.

DEH Heritage Highlights

For a snapshot summary of DEH heritage milestones and activities during 2006 see DEH Heritage Highlights 2006.

DEH Heritage Highlights from previous years.

Location

The Heritage Branch is located at:

Ground floor
1 Richmond Rd
Keswick 5035

GPO Box 1047
Adelaide 5001

For general enquiries phone: (61 8) 8124 4960
Fax: (61 8) 8124 4980
Email: heritage@saugov.sa.gov.au
DX: 138

We are accessible by bus (167/8 from Grenfell St, Adelaide - bus stop 1A out the front) and train (Keswick on the Noarlunga Centre/Tonsley lines - Belair line trains stop very occasionally), but note that some express trains do not stop at Keswick. Visitor parking (2 hours) is on the west side of the building as you drive in off Richmond Rd. Our offices are on the ground floor.