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$2.73 Million for NSW Heritage Projects

Showground grandstands, steam boats, cemeteries, pastoral estates - even a hermit's cave - are among the projects to recieve first-round funding under the NSW Government's Heritage Incentives Program.

The NSW Government has announced $2.73 million in grants and loans for 92 heritage projects, under the 2006-2008 Heritage Incentives Program.

To view the announcement by the Minister of Planning, download the media release:

$2.73 Million for NSW Heritage Projects

To view the projects funded under the 2006-2008 program, download the full list organised by local government area:

Heritage Projects Funded in NSW

Summary and Highlights

Conservation Projects

• $480,000 for 10 industrial heritage sites, including:
  • $100,000 grant for Tathra Wharf (1862)
  • $50,000 each for Ayrdale Dairy Village (1873-1906) near Bega; Ballantyne Woolshed (1855) at Cassilis Station, Cassilis; Joadja Creek Shale Oil Refinery and Village (1870-1911); Wentworth Gold Mine site (1890s-1940s), Lucknow; and the Bellman Hangar, Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome;

• $428,000 for 13 local government heritage site projects, including:
  • the 1893 Dubbo Showground Grandstand, the former Maitland Gaol, the Moruya Showground Exhibits Pavilion and Grandstand and the Post Office and Post Master's Residence at Wilcannia;

• $152,500 in grants to five regional councils for main street conservation works, including:
  • Heritage main streets of Coonamble, Grafton, Mudgee, South Grafton and Wentworth
  • Funding is likely to generate between $600,000 and $1.2 million in conservation work to each of these centres;

• $367,000 to nine private heritage projects, including:
  • Aberglasslyn House (1842 ) near Maitland; Denham Court (1832) near Campbelltown; Eckford House (circa 1841) East Maitland; the Heritage Hotel, Bulli; Iandra Homestead (1910), Greenethorpe; and the former school at Lower Ulmarra (1881);

• $181,000 in grants to seven community building projects, including:
  • the 1911-1930s Pullen Centre, Grafton; the 1860-1930 Riverine Club Building in Wagga Wagga; Warrakoo Homestead (1885) near Wentworth and the Jack Haynes Cottage at the Saumarez complex (c.1883) near Armidale;
• $418,000 in grants to twelve church projects, including:
  • Gateway City Church (1954) Wollongong; St. John the Baptist Anglican Church (1860) Mudgee; Hall of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Newcastle; and Holy Trinity Garrison Anglican Church (1844) Millers Point;

• $181,000 in grants to five industrial heritage projects, including:
  • the 1907 Paddle Steamer Ruby at Wentworth and the SS John Oxley coastal steamer, part of the Sydney Heritage Fleet;

• $115,500 in grants to five heritage cemetery projects, including:
  • funding to conserve headstones at Manly's 19th century cemetery;

• $71,000 in two grants for pipe organ projects.

• $75,000 for signage and interpretation at six major heritage sites, including:
  • a cave in Griffith which was home to an Italian migrant hermit from 1929 to 1941;
  • the Mosman's Curlew Camp of 19th century artists, the establishment of a Migration Heritage Trail in Liverpool and the creation of a major program of interpretation at the former Maitland Gaol site;

• $67,000 for six heritage education and promotion projects, including:
  • an oral history recording project at the former Fairbridge Farm Child Migrant School at Molong;

• $174,755 for 10 thematic studies and nominations to the State Heritage Register, including:
  • a survey of all heritage artillery pieces in NSW, studies into interwar housing, rural fences and secret rituals of building tradesmen and a study to identify Chinese-related heritage places on the South Coast and the Riverina.