MidCoast Council to receive $10,000 for the Gloucester heritage review.
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Member for Upper Hunter, Michael Johnsen has announced that MidCoast Council was successful for funding under the NSW Government Heritage Grants Program.
Mr Johnsen said the grant program will help local communities across NSW to know, value and care for heritage.
“Looking after our heritage is everyone’s responsibility and local communities play an important role in maintaining heritage at a local level,” Mr Johnsen said.
MidCoast Council will undertake the review to identify heritage sites in the Gloucester township to incorporate into a Local Environment Plan for the region.
The State funding received will be matched by a $10,000 allocation by council.
“This will allow us to research potential heritage sites and discuss the potential listings with landowners,” council’s acting director of planning and natural systems, Paul De Szell explained.
“Gloucester is well recognised for its built heritage and we are looking forward to working with the community to identify areas of significance.”
Mr De Szell said the information gained through the review will support a study that was undertaken on Gloucester’s main street area several years ago.
MidCoast Council also provides local heritage grants annually to provide a helping hand to owners of heritage buildings. In this year’s round, three sites from the Gloucester region were successful in obtaining funding to undertake improvements to heritage buildings.
“We would hope as the result of the heritage review, in future years we will see more owners applying for these grants,” Mr De Szell said.
This funding round marks the 40th anniversary of the state funded heritage grants program.
For more information about the projects and the NSW Government’s Heritage Grants, see http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/funding.