Queensland Heritage Register

The Queensland Heritage Register is the primary instrument by which places of heritage value to Queensland as a whole are identified and protected. The Department of Environment and Science manages the details about places in the Queensland Heritage Register, but the Queensland Heritage Council makes decisions about which places are entered in or removed from it, and when substantial changes are made to those entry documents.

Places in the Queensland Register fall into 2 categories, State Heritage Places and Protected Areas.  State Heritage Places are important to Queensland’s story and significant to the State of Queensland.  Protected Areas are places that have strong heritage values that are vulnerable and under threat.

The Queensland Heritage Act 1992 includes provisions to enter and remove places in or from the Queensland Heritage Register requiring a high standard of application information to ensure only well-researched and evidenced applications are progressed. There are also streamlined processes to update existing entry details to ensure greater currency of information about State Heritage Places entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.

More information:

• Queensland Heritage Register