Heritage in Moreland
Council acts to protect and enhance the rich history of Moreland. Heritage is an important part of Moreland’s past.
Heritage can be a piece of land, landscape, building(s) memorials, trees, gardens, parks, places of historical events, and spiritual and religious places. The heritage of Moreland includes all of these things – workers cottages, shopping strips, industrial sites, mansions and historic churches.
Most heritage in Moreland is important for the local community but some heritage is also important for the State of Victoria.
Council’s laws about heritage are usually for places dating from the earliest settlement of Moreland in the 1830s until 1945. More recent places may also be included.
Moreland heritage sites
Some heritage sites in Moreland are the Pentridge Prison Complex, Wiseman House, Glenroy, Wentworth House, Pascoe Vale South, Hoffman’s Brick and Pottery Works, Brunswick, and Lincoln Knitting Mills Coburg.
Some heritage precincts in Moreland are Barkly Street, East, Brunswick, Newlands Estate Precinct, Coburg, and Turner Street Precinct, Pascoe Vale.
For a brief list of properties in Moreland with a Heritage Overlay control, see the Moreland Planning Scheme online.
Sometimes new heritage sites are identified in Moreland. After public consultation, the Moreland Planning Scheme may be amended to include and protect new heritage sites. Contact Council to suggest a new heritage place: ask for the Strategic Planning Unit.
Is my home or building a heritage site?
Council identifies and protects heritage sites with a Heritage Overlay control.
Moreland Planning Scheme online lists all individually listed heritage sites and Heritage Precinct Overlays which include groups of properties also shown on the planning scheme maps.
You can contact Council’s Urban Development Branch to see if your home or building is a Heritage Overlay site or has a Heritage Precinct Overlay.
Planning Scheme Maps showing all Heritage Overlays can also be viewed online at the Moreland Planning Scheme online or as a paper copy at the Moreland Civic Centre, 90 Bell Street, Coburg.
How do I obtain more information about a heriatage listed property?
If your property is located within a Heritage Overlay and you would like more information about the significance of the property, see the Victorian Heritage Database (VHD).
The Victorian Heritage Database, managed by Heritage Victoria, is an online database containing information about Victorian Heritage Places and Precincts including
- statements of significance
- physical descriptions
- historical information
- builder
- architectural style
- photographs, and
- heritage overlay number.
Moreland Heritage Studies
Former City of Coburg Studies
- City of Coburg Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Guidelines for Public Works in Heritage Conservation Areas, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, March 1991 (PDF 2Mb) (PDF 0 bytes)
- City of Coburg Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Volume 3 - Data Sheets, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, October 1990 (PDF 3Mb) (PDF 0 bytes)
- City of Coburg Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Extract, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, March 1991 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 1Mb)
- City of Coburg - Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Building Guidelines, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, March 1991 (PDF 536Kb) (PDF 536Kb)
- Further Conservation Areas Report (supplementary Volume to City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study), Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, May 1995 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 0 bytes)
- City of Coburg - Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Volume One - Text, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, October 1990 (PDF 17Mb) (PDF 17Mb)
- City of Coburg - Heritage Conservation and Streetscape Study - Volume Two - Data sheets, Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, October 1990 (PDF 13Mb) (PDF 13Mb)
Former City of Brunswick Studies
- Upfield Railway Heritage Study, Author: Andrew C Ward & Associates, May 1990 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 0 bytes)
- Keeping Brunswicks Heritage (Volume 1), Author: Context P/L, 1990 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 1Mb)
- Keeping Brunswicks Heritage (Volume 2), Author: Context P/L, 1990 (PDF 10Mb) (PDF 0 bytes)
- Keeping Brunswicks Heritage (Volume 3), Author: Context P/L, 1990 (PDF 3Mb) (PDF 3Mb)
- Brunswick Maps of Heritage Areas, Author: City of Brunswick, 1988 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 1Mb)
City of Moreland Studies
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Thematic History (Volume 1), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, April 1998 (Revised January 1999) (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 1Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Building Citations Datasheets A-K (Volume 2, Part 1), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, April 1998 (Revised January 1999) (PDF 4Mb) (PDF 4Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Building Citations Datasheets L-Z (Volume 2, Part 2), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, April 1998 (Revised January 1999) (PDF 3Mb) (PDF 3Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Heritage Overlay Precincts (Volume 3), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, April 1998 (Revised January 1999) (PDF 2Mb) (PDF 2Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Heritage Overlay Guide (Volume 4), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, January 1999 (PDF 230Kb) (PDF 230Kb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Landscape Citations (Volume 5), Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, January 1999 (PDF 1Mb) (PDF 1Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Additional Heritage Overlay Precincts, Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, September 2001 (PDF 10Mb) (PDF 10Mb)
- City of Moreland Heritage Review - Additional Building Citations, Author: Allom Lovell and Associates, October 2001 (DOC 11Mb) (DOC 11Mb)
- Moreland Local Heritage Places Review, Author: Context P/L, November 2004 (amended April 2008) (DOC 1Mb) (DOC 1Mb)
