Deadline: 24-Mar-22
The Wellington City Council is currently seeking applications for the Built Heritage Incentive Fund to contribute to safe and resilient buildings and maintain their heritage values.
The purpose of the Built Heritage Incentive Fund is to assist owners of heritage buildings to undertake conservation and seismic strengthening work where successful outcomes would be unlikely without assistance.
15% of the fund is reserved for conservation-specific work, whilst 85% is intended for work related to earthquake strengthening. Earthquake strengthening work can include:
- an initial engineering report or assessment
- the detailed design
- a grant towards actual strengthening work.
Eligibility Criteria
Your project must meet all the following criteria:
- The application relates to a heritage-listed building, or a building identified as contributing to a listed heritage area.
- The applicant is the owner or part-owner of the heritage building. This includes private owners, body corporates, charitable trusts or church organisations. The following are ineligible: the Crown, state sector organisations, overseas state agencies, district health boards, community boards, Council-controlled organisations and Council business units
- The planned work must aim to physically improve the building’s structural integrity, public access, safety and/or heritage values.
- The works applied for must not have started prior to the Council Committee decision on the application. See the Funding calendar.
- Funding will be directed towards buildings where successful heritage and seismic strengthening outcomes will be unlikely without assistance. As such:
- grants will be directed towards buildings that are owned by individuals, body corporates, community groups or small to medium sized companies
- applications from limited companies must identify if they are affiliated with larger commercial entities
- all applicants must demonstrate that they do not have excess unallocated reserve funds.
- The application must demonstrate that the work will conserve and/or enhance the building’s heritage significance. As such, input from a recognised conservation architect is:
- required for all work that impacts the building’s heritage elements (such as large-scale restoration works and invasive testing and construction works for seismic strengthening)
- optional for all other work (such as repair and maintenance, small-scale restoration and detailed seismic design or non-invasive seismic investigations)
- The owner of the property must show that the full costs of the project can be met.
- The application does not relate to a building or part of a building that has incomplete allocations from a previous Built Heritage Incentive Fund grant.
For more information, visit https://wellington.govt.nz/community-support-and-resources/community-support/funding/council-funds/built-heritage-incentive-fund