In Summary
- Council is developing a new Heritage Strategy to guide how Greater Shepparton acknowledges, protects, and promotes its rich and diverse heritage over the next 10 years.
- Community feedback is being sought to help shape the strategy, with residents invited to share how they value heritage and what activities or tourism opportunities they’d like to see.
- The current strategy, developed in 2019, led to the creation of the 2020 Heritage Study and the inclusion of significant places in the Council’s Planning Scheme.
- Residents can complete the online survey via Shaping Greater Shepparton or pick up a hard copy at Council’s Customer Service Counter until Sunday 27 July 2025.
The Greater Shepparton Heritage Strategy aims to promote and support heritage-related activities over the next ten years, with the aim of conserving and integrating significant reminders of our heritage for the benefit of current and future generations. The existing strategy was completed in 2019 and is now due for complete review.
The previous strategy supported the development of the Heritage Study in 2020 which identified individually significant places and precincts in Greater Shepparton. These have been incorporated in Council’s Planning Scheme to offer protection of heritage places across the municipality.
Now that Council has completed a significant amount of work to identify sites and put in place protections for these buildings, it is seeking community direction for its next Heritage Strategy. A survey has been established on Council’s Shaping Greater Shepp website to gather feedback on how the community values heritage, engages with the region’s history, and any activities they would like to see developed to promote tourism.
“Greater Shepparton has played an important but also unique part in Australia’s history. This can be seen through our region’s strong irrigation ties, early European settlement, immigration, and war history,” Mayor, Councillor Shane Sali said.
“Residents are encouraged to let us know the types of heritage activities they would like to participate in but also what they would like to see developed to promote heritage tourism in the region. All feedback is welcomed and will help shape the next Greater Shepparton Heritage Strategy.”
Feedback can be provided until Sunday 27 July 2025. Tap here to find out more or to complete the survey.
Hard copy surveys are available at Council’s Customer Service Counter at 90 Welsford Street, Shepparton.
To speak to someone from Council’s Strategic Planning team, phone 5832 9700 or email council@shepparton.vic.gov.au
