Ipswich in Winter 2025

NEWROADMAP TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE IPSWICH’S HERITAGE

White Rock

Ipswich heritage sites will be better protected and celebrated under a new coordinated approach by Ipswich City Council. The new, five-year Ipswich Heritage Plan provides the city with a strategic direction for proactive heritage management as well as greater protection of significant sites, and identifies council’s role in preserving, enhancing and celebrating Ipswich’s cultural and historical legacy. As just the second heritage plan to be developed by a local council in Queensland, the Ipswich Heritage Plan underscores the city’s commitment to protecting and celebrating Ipswich’s rich and proud history that spans millennia. Ipswich is home to a trove of stunning and significant heritage treasures,

including more than 7,000 protected places from character buildings standing prominently throughout the city suburbs to sacred Indigenous sites such as White Rock. The plan includes comprehensively updating council’s record of heritage assets located across Ipswich and identifies the need to engage and work with the community to ensure heritage structures do not fall victim to disrepair. Heritage management becomes increasingly important as Ipswich continues to grow at a rapid rate. The plan provides a clear path forward as the city’s population doubles in size over the next two decades.

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