Victoria Cultural Heritage Management Regions: Aggregated Administrative Boundaries

Victoria, Australia, has been divided into five cultural heritage management regions by the Office of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. The dataset, last updated in April 2026, is provided by the Department of Premier and Cabinet and is aligned to the VicMap Property framework. It aggregates standard Victorian government regional boundaries to form specific metropolitan and regional zones for heritage management.

Use Cases

• Determine required cultural heritage management processes for a development site based on its regional location.
• Conduct spatial analysis of heritage management zones relative to other land use or environmental datasets.
• Create maps for public consultation or internal planning showing the five aggregated OAAV regions.
• Integrate heritage region boundaries with property parcel data, as the dataset is aligned to VicMap Property.

Strengths

• Explicitly defines five distinct administrative regions for cultural heritage management.
• Aligned to the authoritative VicMap Property spatial framework.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated date is precisely recorded as 2026-04 08.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the exact year or period the boundaries represent.

Provenance

Source

Office of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (OAAV), a branch of the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Collection Method

Derived by aggregating existing Victorian government regional boundaries.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 22:24:15.765713; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of Victoria, Australia.