Assessing and managing social significance

The project considered many issues. Three of the most important included:

• the challenges of developing an evidence base for social value
• establishing threshold guidelines to identify places of social significance at the state level  
• how to manage social value under the Heritage Act 2017.

A project team led by Lovell Chen was commissioned to undertake the initial research. The team also included experts from:

• the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (University of Melbourne)
• Extent Heritage. 

Their final report and recommendations was delivered in June 2018. The project concluded in April 2019.

It delivered:

• a new section on Criterion G in the 'Victorian Heritage Register Criterion and Threshold Guidelines'
• a new guidance document: 'Identifying places and objects of state-level social value in Victoria'.

You can find these deliverables with the Criteria for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register.