Many expert reports have recommended places on the mountain be nominated to Heritage Tasmania.

In 2005 McConnell and Scripps concluded that 22 places had state level heritage significance. In 2010 Sheridan recommended a state heritage nomination be initiated and composed the Statement of Significance against state heritage criteria. The Wellington Park Management Plan of 2013 foreshadowed the Trust initiating state heritage site listings—especially for any places ‘considered to be at a higher level of risk’. (WPMP page 80). In 2021 the Trust changed tack and agreed to nominate 18 places. In 2023 the Trust nominated 3 places: two heritage tracks and The Springs (Historic) Exhibition garden—not because they were at any particular risk, but because the Trust had substantial expert material underpinning the nominations. They were, also, test nominations.

ENSHRINE’s strategy is to complete local government listings before making a state nomination. We are advised that as well as the 22 places the Trust values, there are additional state threshold places on the mountain and, indeed, it is not only open to the state but preferable for it to list as a ‘place’ an area that is, effectively, a landscape.

A suite of nomination options are before us, from smallest to largest, as follows:

The Road to the Pinnacle

In 2023 Hobart City Council agreed to recognise Pinnacle Road as a heritage place in its Local Provisions Schedule. ENSHRINE is preparing a state heritage nomination based on this, including the key tourism heritage assets linked to the Road at the Pinnacle.

‘The First 18’

In 2020 the Wellington Park Management Trust accepted a list of sites its own experts considered worthy of a place in the state’s heritage register and agreed to nominate them all. The original list had 18 places, but some places were in fact nests. The full list is for perhaps 33 places. In 2023, the Trust nominated three of the high priority places on that list. ENSHRINE is preparing nomination statements for the remaining places.

The Recreational Hut cluster

In a report cited below by McConnell, the heritage significance of the mountains many recreational mountain huts and shelter sheds was assessed. ENSHRINE is considering a nomination of the historic heritage huts McConnell recommended as of state heritage significance.

The Historic Track Network

In 2012 Anne McConnell produced an interim report examining the heritage significance of the mountain’s walking tracks. She identified a suite of approximately 18 tracks she assessed as of individual and network significance exceeding the state heritage register threshold. ENSHRINE is considering a nomination of the historic heritage tracks.

The Summit Area

In 2010 cultural heritage personal working for the Wellington Park Management Trust produced an assessment report on the Summit Area’s heritage significance. The report is some 190 pages in length (cover opposite). It is accompanied by a 40-page Conservation Policy. ENSHRINE is preparing a nomination based on the recommendations of that pair of reports. The summit area was previously acknowledged as promo-heritage precinct # 7, shown on the map directly below.

The Proto-precincts

In 2005 the Trust published a 2-volume audit of the mountain’s heritage assets. For Volume 1 of that audit the authors produced a map of “proto-precincts” showing areas in the Park with high concentrations of high-significance heritage assets.

The Mountain Heritage Park

In 2010 Gwenda Sheridan wrote a Statement of (heritage) Significance for the entire mountain.