We've been working to protect Wyndham's important heritage

Heritage provides us with important evidence of how our community has evolved and developed over time.

As a region with high growth, heritage is particularly important to Wyndham as a touchstone to the past and a key contributor to a strong sense of place in our communities. There are pressures on our special heritage places due to development and competing strategic objectives such as infrastructure provision and housing growth.

Council must manage these pressures on our heritage to protect the places that make Wyndham special, and ensure that development is sensitive to identified heritage values.

The Wyndham Heritage Review is an important opportunity to protect places of local heritage significance in the face of unprecedented growth, to strengthen the City’s unique character, and to celebrate the history of Wyndham with our community.

Project updates

October 2025: We are now in the process of implementing the recommendations of the Review through Planning Scheme Amendment C270wynd. For more information visit our dedicated page on the Loop.

June 2024: At the 25 June 2024 Council Meeting, Council resolved to adopt the recommendations of the Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2: Residential Places and Precincts. Read the engagement report here.

Council also resolved to implement the Heritage Review through the commencement of Planning Scheme Amendments C270wynd (that seeks to apply permanent Heritage Overlay controls) and C271wyndham (that seeks to apply interim Heritage Overlay controls) to the Wyndham Planning Scheme.

What has been identified for protection?

The following places and precincts have been identified for protection under the Heritage Overlay.

Twelve individual places in Werribee and three individual places in Little River were found to be of significance to the City of Wyndham and have been recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay.

  • 13 Anderson Street Werribee
  • 15 Anderson Street Werribee
  • 57 Cottrell Street Werribee
  • 1 Francis Street Werribee
  • 2 Galvin Road Werribee
  • 26 Geelong Road Werribee
  • 24 Market Road Werribee
  • 13 Princes Highway Werribee
  • 23 Princes Highway Werribee
  • 1 Purcell Court Werribee
  • 112 Wedge Street Werribee
  • 8 Wyndham Street Werribee
  • 46-62 Flinders Street Little River
  • 48 Manor Road Little River
  • 60 and 80 You Yangs Road Little River

The Beamish and Gibbons Street Residential Precinct, at 4-6, 8-10 and 11-18 Beamish Street, Werribee & 3-24 and 28 Gibbons Street, Werribee, has been found to be of significance to the City of Wyndham and has been recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay.

Design guidelines for the precinct have been prepared to guide future development.

The Campbells Cove and Baileys Beach Boatshed Precinct (Werribee South) has found to be of significance to the City of Wyndham and the Precinct recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay.

Design guidelines for the precinct have been prepared to guide future development.

Other recommendations

At the Council Meeting 25 June 2024. Council resolved to Authorise Council Officers to prepare and initiate a work program for the development and implementation of alternative approaches to recognising the valued attributes of Werribee South in accordance with the recommendations outlined in Volume 4 of the Wyndham Heritage Review, Stage 2: Residential Places and Precincts, and in consultation with relevant stakeholders.


Images courtesy of the State Library of Victoria (SLV) - L-R: rw005610, rw005602, rw005601

Traditional Owner Engagement

We have undertaken consultation with Wyndham’s Registered Aboriginal Parties, including the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation and the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation to provide an opportunity to contribute cultural heritage matters to the project.

What's happened so far?

Wyndham Heritage Review – Stage 1 (Gap Study)

Council has completed a Stage 1 Heritage Review (Gap Study) which reviewed the existing Heritage Overlay, existing heritage resources, including unprotected heritage places across Wyndham and identified a number of gaps in the protection of post contact heritage places in Wyndham.

The Stage 1 Heritage Review (Gap Study) recommended further investigation and detailed assessment of 173 Individual Sites, including residential, commercial, industrial, community, archaeological places, military and infrastructure related sites, landscapes and trees, complex places, comprised of multiple land parcels and new precincts.

The Stage 1 Gap Study also recommended corrections to existing heritage citations, and the preparation of detailed Thematic Environmental History for Wyndham.

Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2: Residential Places and Precincts

At the Ordinary Council Meeting 29th June 2021, Council resolved to adopt the Stage 1 Study and commence the first of the Stage 2 heritage studies - Work Item 1 (Residential places and precincts).

This includes individual residential places (including some groups) and precincts (generally residential, but also including the Campbells Cove/Baileys Beach boatshed precinct). You can read more about the Council process here.

Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2: Residential Places and Precincts Phase 1 engagement

In August 2022, at the beginning of the Stage 2 Study, Council reached out to the community through letters to landowners, print and social media and The Loop, and invited residents to contribute information on places identified in the Stage 1 Study.

This information has been considered by the consultant and included where relevant.

Wyndham Heritage Review Stage 2: Residential Places and Precincts Phase 2 engagement

From November 2023 to February 2024, Council invited affected landowners and the broader community to review the draft heritage study and citations to ensure they accurately reflected significant heritage places and precincts in Wyndham. Feedback has been considered by the consultant and included where relevant.