POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSE
188 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Kew Police Station and former Court House was built as part of a complex constructed to also accommodate a post office. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the Public Works Department's architect J Harvey and completed in 1888.
How is it significant?
The former Kew Police Station and former Court House is of historic and architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The former Kew Police Station and former Court House, together with the Kew Post Office, is important because it exhibits diversity in integrating civil offices, and because the design accommodates the apex of road junctions. The former Police Station and Court House is important because it demonstrates a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings. The former Kew Police Station and former Court House are of historic importance because of its relationship to, and ability to reflect, Melbourne's prosperity in the late nineteenth century; a prosperity which gave rise to the emergence of an upper middle class and the development of Kew as one of Melbourne's wealthier suburbs.
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSE - Permit Exemptions
General Exemptions:General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions. Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.
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