Deadline: 31 May 2025
Redland City Council’s Local Heritage Grants Program is to protect, conserve and enhance properties of local heritage significance, identified on the Local Heritage Register (Schedule 7 – Heritage Schedule of the Redland City Plan).
The program aims to achieve the objectives by providing support to landholders or occupiers of local heritage places through funding towards initiatives that serve to protect, restore or reinstate local heritage values.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $5,000 will be provided for projects and activities that encourage and assist with the maintenance and preservation of local heritage places identified on the Local Heritage Register.
Funding Categories
- Funds towards works that serve to protect, restore or reinstate local heritage values:
- Funding available: Up to $5,000
- Applicant cash contribution: Nil
- Funds towards professional heritage consultancy services:
- Funding available: Up to $5,000
- Applicant cash contribution: 20% cash contribution up to $1,000.
Eligible Properties
- Eligible properties are privately owned local heritage places as identified on the Redland City Council Local Heritage Register.
Eligible Projects
- Funding will only be provided for projects conducted on places entered on Schedule 7 – Local Heritage Schedule of the City Plan at the time of application and for the duration of the project.
- Eligible projects include:
- The cost of consultancy fees to prepare or update a conservation management plan or heritage management plan.
- Structural engineering reports.
- Urgent repair/conservation work including:
- restumping
- repairs to timber framing, decking, windows and doors
- reroofing
- painting
- The cost to maintain heritage features.
- To reinstate lost features important to the heritage character of the place.
- Reversing unsympathetic alterations to restore original form.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply for funding the applicant must:
- be either the owner or occupier of the local heritage place, or a person employed on behalf of the owner/occupier to undertake the work (i.e. consultant/contractor, etc.).
- where the applicant is not the owner, the applicant must obtain the consent of the owner for the lodgment of the application.
For more information, visit Redland City Council.
