Welcome to our Geelong Heritage Strategy Survey
Take our short 5-minute survey to provide your feedback on our priorities, and challenges and your aspirations for heritage in Greater Geelong
The Geelong Heritage Strategy is being updated so that it is relevant for today and the future, reflecting values that are important to Traditional Owners and our diverse and thriving community.
As we collaborate with you to shape the sustainable future of heritage in Geelong, we invite you to consider its meaning and significance to our cultural and design landscape, and your views on challenges and opportunities. We want to hear your ideas for engagement with our rich and evolving heritage through events, experiences and interpretative information onsite, and online.
Examples of heritage include spaces and traditions significant to our Wadawurrung Traditional Owners, Wurdi Youang (the You Yangs) and places such as Gordon Technical College (opened 1887), a hub built by a migrant community, the Corio Bowls skatepark, and spaces that have played a part in gender equality and LGBTIQA+ history.
Help shape the future of heritage in Greater Geelong. Your valuable feedback will help inform our roadmap of medium and long-term heritage priorities for Greater Geelong.
Please help us by completing our short survey, sharing your favourite existing and potential new heritage places, or attending one of our drop-in sessions where you will meet our Heritage team.
We look forward to your contribution!
Our heritage is a part of who we are. It’s what we inherit, appreciate today and think is important to protect and pass on to future generations.
Heritage can be something that you can see and feel, like buildings and objects, or something that is non-physical and abstract, like traditions and beliefs.
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Heritage places connect us to our past and future, fostering cultural awareness, continuity, and inspiration.
It's time to update and renew our Heritage Strategy 2017-21 because it has expired, and we believe it's time to broaden our vision.
This update will reflect First Nations values, embrace diversity, and focus on sustainability, ensuring the Geelong Heritage Strategy is inclusive and forward thinking, recognising all aspects of our community's rich heritage and culture.
The objective of Geelong Heritage Strategy 2025-35 is to preserve and enhance the region's heritage places.
This strategy builds on our previous Heritage Strategy 2017-21 and will incorporate community input to ensure it reflects the values and needs of diverse groups, including Traditional Owners.
The strategy is set to guide policies and actions over the next decade, ensuring Geelong's rich history remains an integral part of its future growth and development.
Council plays a key role in conservation and management of heritage places in Greater Geelong.
This is done mainly through the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme, in which our most important heritage places are recognised in heritage and landscape overlays, with any changes to them requiring approval to ensure what we value about them is not diminished by the change.
Council is also active in the following ways in managing heritage places:
Geelong City Council has made significant progress in preserving and promoting the City's rich heritage through its previous Heritage Strategy.
Key achievements include:
Feedback for this engagement closed on Monday 16 September, 2024.
Your feedback is important to us, please visit one or more of the feedback options below to have your say:
Senior Heritage Officer
City of Greater Geelong,
Wadawurrung Country,
PO Box 104,
Geelong VIC 3220
Take our short 5-minute survey to provide your feedback on our priorities, and challenges and your aspirations for heritage in Greater Geelong
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We are running a competition to find the most engaging and interesting stories. Share your story below and if interested, enter the competition at the bottom of this page to go in the running to win a $100 gift voucher.
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