Amendment C191dare applies a Heritage Overlay to properties within the Thornbury Park Estate Precinct and came into effect in the Darebin Planning Scheme on 24 April 2026. The approved C191dare amendment documents can be viewed at the Department of Transport and Planning website.

Council adopted the amendment at its meeting on Monday 28 November 2022 and submitted it to the Minister for Planning for approval in December 2022.

The approved amendment applies to the area shown in Figure 1. This is a reduced heritage precinct compared to what was adopted by Council, with properties east of Bracken Avenue and some non-contributory properties at the edges of the precinct now excluded from the Heritage Overlay area.

Figure 1: C191dare Approved Heritage Overlay Area

What has happened previously?

At its meeting on 26 April 2021, Council resolved to request authorisation from the Minister for Planning to prepare and exhibit Amendment C191dare. The amendment sought to implement the findings of the Thornbury Park Estate Precinct Heritage Study by applying the Heritage Overlay to the Thornbury Park Estate Precinct.

Exhibition

The amendment was exhibited in August 2021 for a period of 10 weeks.In December 2021, Council resolved to allow for further engagement with the culturally and linguisitically diverse communities of the local area.

Submissions were accepted until 28 March 2022. The exhibited amendment documents can be viewed at the Department of Transport and Planning website.

In March 2022, Council resolved to refer submissions to an independent Planning Panel.

Planning Panel Hearing

The Minister for Planning appointed an independent Planning Panel to consider all submissions to Amendment C191dare - Thornbury Park Estate.

The Planning Panel Hearing took place in July 2022. Panel considered submissions and prepared a report which, among other things, recommended that the size of the heritage precinct be reduced.

Council Adopted Precinct

At its meeting on 28 November 2022 Council adopted an alternate heritage precinct extent. This was generally consistent with the Panel recommendations, but included a portion of the properties to the east of Bracken Avenue, along Miller Street, Keon Street and Rennie Street, due to a high proportion of contributory heritage properties in the area.