Kiama Heritage Review

1. Amending Schedule 5 of the Kiama LEP 2011 to:
   1. To incorporate the Blowhole Tennis Court (Terralong Street – Lot 1 DP 1115376) in heritage item I164
   2. to incorporate Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church (94 - 112 Manning Street, Kiama – Lot 1002 DP 859186) in heritage item I117
   3. List the following sites as new individual local heritage items:
      1. 24 Manning Street, Kiama – Lot 21 DP 1186998 (I180)
      2. 5 Noorinan Street, Kiama – Lot 12 DP 1166458 (I181)
      3. 51 Shoalhaven Street, Kiama – Part Lot 200 DP 1017091 (I182)
      4. 23 Barney Street, Kiama – Lot 1 DP 194007 (I183)
      5. 72 Collins Street, Kiama – Lot 1 DP 781177 (I184)
      6. 1 Bong Bong Street, Kiama – Lot 1 DP 1115376 (I185)
      7. 19 Barney Street, Kiama – Lot 1 DP 1014606 (I186)
2. List the following areas as new local Heritage Conservation Areas (HCA);
   1. Smiths Farm Heritage Conservation Area

      The area generally between Akuna Street, Shoalhaven Street, Barney Street, Seaview Street, Belvedere Street and Collins Street and 87 Shoalhaven Street – Lot 7 DP 258846 as the Smiths Farm HCA.

   2. Kiama Town Centre Heritage Conservation Area

      Manning Street, from Bong Bong Street to Terralong Street, and Terralong Street, from its eastern extent to Collins Street, including the façade of 66 and 68 Terralong Street – Lots 1 & 2 DP 508891, as the Kiama Town Centre HCA.

3. Amending sheet HER_012 to include the seven (7) new heritage items, listed above, and the two (2) new heritage conservation areas. 

The following 7 new heritage items are proposed to be listed on Schedule 5 in the Kiama LEP 2011.

Below are summaries of each proposed item. For full details download the Justification Report under Related information. 

1. 19 Barney Street
   

   A detached single-storey weatherboard cottage constructed on masonry foundations in the Interwar period. The cottage has a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. The house appears to be largely intact and is representative of the development of housing in Kiama and the enduring popularity of weatherboard construction.

2. 23 Barney Street
   A detached single-storey Interwar Bungalow. Constructed of rendered masonry, with a rough cast finish, the house has a low-pitched hipped and gabled roof of corrugated iron. The house appears largely unmodified externally and seems to occupy its original footprint.
   
   
3. 1 Bong Bong Street
   

   A detached single-storey Victorian workers cottage on stone foundations with a hipped roof of corrugated iron. Likely constructed between 1884 and 1888. It is representative of modest late Victorian housing in Kiama.

4. 70 Collins Street
   A detached single-storey Interwar dwelling in the P&O Functionalist style. The house is constructed of polychromatic face brick, with a garage in the elevated foundations of the northern portion of the building. It has a low-pitched hipped roof of Marseille tiles and ‘stepped’ bays on its primary elevation. It is an excellent example of a modest Interwar dwelling with restrained P&O Functionalist design and is a rare example of its use for residential housing within Kiama area. 

5. 24 Manning Street
   A detached two-storey late Victorian residence with weatherboard cladding and a high-pitched hipped and gabled roof. It also has a decorative masonry chimney. The dwelling is located at the rear of the bank building, in its former grounds. The house was constructed on land purchased in 1887 by the City Bank of Sydney with the residence and stables building built shortly after. An application was lodged in 1925 to convert the building to a dwelling. It is a rare large-scale late Victorian dwelling in the Kiama commercial district connected with the bank. 

6. 5 Noorinan Street
   A single-storey Victorian dwelling with a large contemporary rear addition. Constructed of weatherboard on painted brick foundations, featuring a high-pitched roof of corrugated iron with a small gablet above the main body of the house and masonry chimney. The house appears to retain its original fabric.

7. 51 Shoalhaven Street
   A detached single-storey Interwar cottage constructed of weatherboard on masonry foundations with a hipped and gabled roof with bold gables to its primary elevation. The cottage was constructed in 1934-1935. Joseph Westin established new offices of the Kiama Independent. The Kiama District Historical Society believes it to be one of three kit houses, the designs of which were brought from the US, to accommodate the employees of the paper and their family. 

Two Heritage Conservation Areas are proposed to be listed on Scheduled 5 in the Kiama LEP 2011. 

Below are summaries of proposed areas. For full details download the Justification Report under Related information.

A. Civic and Commercial Precinct (Kiama Historic Town Centre)
Civic and commercial buildings located in the proposed Expanded Civic and Commercial Precinct Heritage Conservation Areas. These are characterised by two-storey Victorian and Federation Free Classical buildings, which represent the civic development of the town, and low-scale commercial properties along Terralong Street, which represent growing trade and industry in the early twentieth century. These properties physically define the north-eastern boundary of the town and have stylistically defined the scale and character of the surrounding development. 

B. Southern Town Centre Residential (Smiths Farm)
Residential buildings located to the north and south of Kiama’s civic and commercial precinct. These buildings maintain the grid plan introduced in the 1840 Town of Kiama Plan and show the development of Housing styles throughout the region. Residential buildings are generally late-Victorian and Federation cottages and Interwar Californian Bungalows. They are generally weatherboard in construction.

Where a proposal seeks to undertake works to a heritage item, on land adjacent to or in the vicinity of a heritage item, or within a heritage conservation area, a heritage management document is required to be submitted with a Development Application, in accordance with Clause 5.10 of the LEP 2011.

The extent of information required in a heritage management document will depend on the heritage significance of the property, the contribution of the property to a heritage conservation area (if relevant), and the nature and scope of the development proposed.

Council may require one of the following heritage management documents:

1. A Heritage Impact Statement (HIS)

   This is required for development applications relating to heritage items, properties within heritage conservation areas, and properties in the vicinity of heritage items or heritage conservation areas. The type of HIS required depends on the scope of works proposed. Some minor works, such as internal upgrades or repair works, will only require a short HIS that can be written by the property owner or architect/designer. If the proposed works will have an impact on significant fabric or alter the structure of the building, the HIS should be prepared by a suitably qualified heritage consultant in accordance with Heritage NSW’s published guidelines.

2. A Heritage Assessment (HA)

   A Heritage Assessment may be required by Council where a proposal may affect the heritage values of a place that is not yet identified as a heritage item within the LEP 2011 but may have heritage value. A Heritage Assessment must be prepared by a suitably qualitied heritage consultant.

3. A Conservation Management Plan (CMP)
   CMPs are rarely required for development of locally listed residences. A CMP is only required for places that are considered to have a high level of heritage significance. This will usually be a place of state heritage significance (that is, a place on the State Heritage Register [SHR] or identified in the LEP  2011as a place of state significance), a heritage item owned by Council, or a large property with several buildings, such as a school or church campus.

Council also committed to consider the inclusion of additional heritage items in the LEP and heritage conservation areas.

Our heritage buildings provide distinctive and unique character and scale for our towns and villages.

Protecting existing heritage buildings and the heritage values of our towns and villages is a priority for our community.

Council appointed GML Heritage to conduct the Kiama Heritage Review.

GML Heritage were recently awarded best Historical Archaeology Heritage Report at the recent Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology (ASHA) Awards.

GML Heritage conducted the review in conjunction with the Kiama Historical Society to identify additional items.

No existing heritage items were proposed for removal.

Council organised two workshops in December 2021 with Council’s Community Review Panel where a review of GML Heritage's documentation took place. 

Following this review, no changes were made to the documents.

Exhibition of the draft Kiama Heritage Review and associated documents took place from Monday 28 February to Monday 27 March. 

Council, in conjunction with the Kiama & District Historical Society, organised 3 drop-in sessions to celebrate specific streetscapes and areas that demonstrate distinctive historical character.

As part of the Kiama Heritage Review 3 new/expanded Heritage Conservation Areas have been proposed.

The drop-in sessions were designed to provide an opportunity for property owners and interested community members to ask questions and provide feedback on the three proposed Heritage Conservation Areas.

The drop-in sessions were held in the recently restored, heritage listed, Council building at 11 Manning Street, Kiama.