Amendment C215port - Proposed Heritage Overlay for 21 Dorcas Street South Melbourne (Permanent Controls)

Amendment C215port to the Port Phillip Planning Scheme seeks to give statutory effect to the findings of the 21 Dorcas Street South Melbourne Heritage Report and Place Citation and apply Heritage Overlay 562 to 21 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne on a permanent basis.

Please refer to Explanatory Report for full list of proposed changes.

As part of Council’s on-going commitment through its Heritage Program to identify and protect places of heritage significance in Port Phillip, Council has commissioned a review of the potential heritage values of a number of individual places in South Melbourne. This review included 21 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne.

While that Review is on-going, the findings for 21 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne are included in the 21 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne Heritage Report and Place Citation (Trethowan Architects, 2023). The Report Identifies that 21 Dorcas Street is of local heritage significance to Port Phillip as it is:

• Historically significant as a rare surviving example of housing in this part of South Melbourne, developed at the turn of the twentieth century (Criterion A)
• Of representative significance as a good and largely intact example of a Federation period house built in a transitional style, demonstrating the continuation of the Victorian residential idiom into the early twentieth century.

The report recommends the property be added to the Heritage Overlay.

Proposed C215port amendment documentation 

Should the Amendment be supported at the Council meeting it will be submitted to the Minister for Planning for Authorisation. 

Once authorisation is received the amendment will proceed to exhibition, where the public are invited to make submissions. 

A planning scheme amendment is a statutory process set out in the Planning and Environment Act 1987, and is required in order to apply a heritage overlay to a property. The process can take approximately 12-18 months and provides opportunity for landowners and interested persons to make submissions via the Public Exhibition process.

More information about the process can be found here: Amending a planning scheme).