There are concerns owners are being kept in the dark about plans to remove buildings from Tasmania's heritage register.
In December, the Tasmanian Heritage Council earmarked the first batch of properties for removal from the register under a government direction to cull the list by a third.
Owners are yet to be notified.
Greens MP Cassy O'Connor described the delay as a ''scandalously poor process''.
"Four months after a statutory decision has been made by the Heritage Council, we don't know how many properties [or] what sort of properties and where they are," Ms O'Connor said.
"And this from a Government that has made it clear within a year they want to remove 1,653 properties from the heritage register."
Council chairwoman Brett Torossi said owners would be notified shortly, but would not say how many properties had been slated for removal so far.
"That's an evolving list," Ms Torossi said.
"For us it's not really about the numbers, it's about the integrity of the register, the credibility of the register and the depths of information we have so that we can confidently say this is absolutely important to everyone in Tasmania."
She stressed no decisions are final, and details will be made public first.
"We will be asking the public to come forward with any relevant information they have on any of these properties and that will help us make a final decision of whether a property will stay on a heritage register or not," she said.
The council has already removed more than 23,000 hectares of paddocks and land surrounding historic homesteads.
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