With your input we’ve drafted a Heritage Strategy to help us recognise and celebrate Boroondara’s unique local heritage.

Why have a heritage strategy?

We need to agree on what we consider to be our heritage and how to manage it in the context of future growth and change. 

What is heritage?

We’re broadening our idea of heritage. Heritage helps shape Boroondara and the people who live here. It’s the parts of our history we don’t want to lose. 

We asked you in mid-2024, what does heritage mean to you? Our community consultation received lots of interest, with thousands of people visiting the consultation page and others coming to the pop-up events. We received 492 responses.

What did our community tell us?

Respondents said they value Aboriginal cultural heritage, historic buildings and our streetscapes. They also told us the following needs to be called out in the strategy:

• heritage events and trails – such as festivals, walking tours and exhibitions
• intangible heritage – like oral histories, traditions, languages, cultural practices and historical records
• significant trees and natural landscapes
• opportunities for learning – including public access to archives, collections and heritage resources
• social history – preserving stories
• sustainability – such as adaptive reuse of heritage buildings.

How can you get involved?

You can explore the draft strategy and have your say when we launch it in June. 

Visit and follow the Heritage Strategy page on Your Say Boroondara. We’ll email you when the consultation opens.

We’ll use your feedback as we finalise the strategy later this year.