The Heritage Design Guide assists architects, developers and property owners to better use and understand our heritage policies when adapting or developing heritage properties.
You can
read all sections of the guide via the links below, or
download the full guide as a PDF or Word document.
Introduction
The Heritage Design Guide has been prepared by the City of Melbourne to support interpretation of the heritage policies within the Melbourne Planning Scheme. The heritage policies are as follows:
The guide uses illustrations and photos as examples to visually communicate the intent of the heritage policies. The photo captions and illustration annotations specifically outline the policy requirements achieved or not achieved in each example.
This guide applies to all places within the heritage overlay within the City of Melbourne (except the Docklands Zone); however, the sections of this guide titled 'outside of the CCZ' only apply outside of both the Capital City Zone (CCZ) and the Docklands Zone (DZ). (See map of the City of Melbourne boundary and zones.)
The Heritage Design Guide must be read in conjunction with the Melbourne Planning Scheme and to the extent of any inconsistency, the Melbourne Planning Scheme prevails. The Heritage Design Guide is a resource to assist relevant land owners and provide information generally and does not constitute legal advice. The Heritage Design Guide and in particular the diagrams and photographs contained within it are for illustrative purposes only noting that assessing and responding to heritage controls will depend on the individual site context and all the circumstances.
Image credits
Where the author of the image is not specified, these images are taken by or owned by the City of Melbourne. All illustrations have been prepared by the City of Melbourne.