Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The City of Onkaparinga is inviting applications for Built Heritage Grants Program to support the owners of local heritage listed places and representative places to maintain, preserve, restore and/or reconstruct the heritage features of their property to ensure its heritage values are retained.
Objectives
- The Built Heritage Grants directly relates to the following Key Result Area and Outcome under the ‘Place’ theme of their Community Plan
- Key Result Area – Their city is a great place to live. Outcome – They encourage sustainable residential development that improves their city’s liveability, values their natural areas, and protects their Aboriginal and built heritage.
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The Key Result Area and Outcome are achieved through:
- Enhancement and improvement of local built heritage
- Preservation of local built heritage for future generation
- Increasing the liveability and usability of local heritage places.
Purpose
The purpose of these grants is to offer funding to:
- Maintain and restore properties identified in the Planning and Design Code as local heritage listed places or representative places
- Ensure that conservation works are undertaken in accordance with the principles identified in the Burra Charter
- Promote heritage values and local heritage.
- In addition to these grants, other related City of Onkaparinga initiatives include: a heritage advisory service, which can be accessed by owners of local heritage properties within the City of Onkaparinga
- Workshops on traditional skills and techniques
- History and heritage awards
Funding Information
The grants provide a maximum subsidy of:
- 30 per cent of the total cost of works capped at $5000 when the total cost is less than $20,000
- 25 per cent of the total cost of the works capped at $7500 when the total cost is $20,000 or more.
- The total cost includes cost of material, labour and any ‘in-kind’ contribution.
What they can fund?
- Re-roofing works
- Conservation works to verandas
- Salt damp treatment
- Paint removal (masonry)
- Repointing works
- Repair of stonework
- Conservation works to front fence
- Repainting (no more than once in every five years)
- Restoration, conservation or reinstatement of original doors and windows.
The projects/activities are not limited to the above mentioned activities.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for the grants under the heritage grants, the applicant needs to fulfil the following criteria:
- The building/item must be listed as the local heritage place or representative place in the Planning and Design Code.
- The conservation works must be for the external fabric of the building.
- The cost of the conservation work must be a minimum of $1000.
- Private owners and lessees of local heritage places or contributory items.
- To be eligible for funding, an applicant:
- Must be a private owner or lessee of a local heritage place or contributory item at the time of the grant application
- Must discuss the intended work with council staff and heritage advisor prior to commencement of works
- Must obtain a development approval and a council permit, if applicable
- Must not have an overdue grant acquittal with City of Onkaparinga. You will need to satisfactorily acquit previously awarded grants before being eligible to apply for this grant. Organisations that have had unsatisfactory dealings with council may be also be precluded from receiving funding.
For more information, visit City of Onkaparinga.
For more information, visit https://onkaparinga.smartygrants.com.au/2022-23BuiltHeritage