Councillor Sophie Barker has been appointed the new Chair of the Dunedin Heritage Fund.

Dunedin Heritage Fund

The Fund committee met on 19th November to decide the Round 2 grant applications. Nine applications were received for a wide variety of heritage projects. Grants were awarded for restoration and repair work to several historic churches (including Mary Queen of Peace in Broad Bay and St Mary Star of the Sea in Port Chalmers) and various privately-owned heritage buildings.

The Heritage Fund can provide incentive funding for a wide range of works including:

• Essential repairs, stabilisation or core structural works.
• Restoration projects.
• Upgrades to code/regulation standards to enable contemporary use of heritage places, e.g. fire, earthquake, access provisions.
• Specific “like with like” material replacement/maintenance projects that protect the integrity of heritage buildings (e.g. slate or timber shingle roofing; copper gutters/downpipes; wooden joinery; stained glass; stonework; pressed tin ceilings; etc)
• Preparation of heritage conservation plans.

Further information can be found on the Dunedin City Council website.

The next funding round (3) closes on 31st January 2021. If you have any queries about making an application please contact the Heritage Advisor at heritage@dcc.govt.nz or 03 477 4000.

2020 Heritage Awards

The 2020 Heritage Awards were held at Toitu OSM on Tuesday 25th October. The awards had a great turnout with the Outstanding Heritage Re-use Award going to Lawrie Forbes commercial heritage building at 43 Crawford Street. Other award winners included:

• DCC Heritage Streetscape Award: Fight Times - 49 Stuart Street - Geoff and Trish Todd (owners)
• Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Conservation Award: Larnach Castle Breakfast Room Restoration – Norcombe Barker and Guy Williams (Owners and conservation consultant)
• Seddons: The Fibrous Plaster Company Student Design Competition Award: Ilan Avraham, Otago Polytechnic for 232 Rattray Street project
• Otago Polytechnic School of Design Interior Architecture Award: 43 Crawford Street – the Zeallandia Building – Lawrie Forbes (owner and developer)
• Dunedin Heritage Fund Pam Jordan Services to Heritage Award: Jointly awarded to Ann Barsby QSM and Dr Jill Hamel

Next year instead of the Heritage Awards we will look to holding a smaller heritage-themed event with the Awards returning in 2022 on a biennial basis. Any ideas for the smaller event (e.g. a heritage workshop, seminars, or similar) will be considered, so please contact us at heritage@dcc.govt.nz with your suggestions.