| Grants
Inverness City Heritage Trust has been established to take a strategic view of the conservation needs of the buildings forming the historic core of the city and to co-ordinate a programme of repair and restoration work funded by grant assistance.
Owners of buildings within Inverness Riverside and Crown Conservation Areas, like all property owners, are responsible for the repair and maintenance of the fabric of their buildings. However, the traditional materials and craftsmanship required to preserve the appearance and character of old buildings may demand additional expenditure. Inverness City Heritage Trust grants are intended to help meet this additional cost, and to assist with the reinstatement of original features.
Building Repair Grants Scheme
Objective
To put into sound repair, the structure and external envelope of buildings which make a positive contribution to the character or appearance of the Inverness Conservation Area.
Eligible works
Must be works to conserve the structure and external envelope of the building, use appropriate conservation techniques or methods of construction and high quality natural or traditional materials.
Works may include;
- General structural repairs
- Structural timber repairs
- Specialist Treatments
- Re-roofing & high level repairs
- Chimney repairs
- Leadwork & rainwater goods
- Render, stonework & brick work repairs and repointing
- Windows, doors & external joinery
- Repair of external boundary walls
Other eligible costs
- Professional fees, up to 16% of eligible works cost. Other fees may be eligible depending on the composition of the team.
- If VAT cannot be zero-rated or recovered in any way then it is eligible for grant.
The annual budget for this grant scheme is £200,000 and is allocated on a first come, first served basis. Each application will be based on its own merits and is now scored against pre agreed eligibility criteria.
Building Repair Grants - are assessed approximately four times a year. Due to an unprecedented number of applications for funding in 2009-10 and the early part of 2010, the grant percentage rates for 2010-11 have now been set at between 25-40% with a maximum grant per property of £25k per annum.
The deadlines for applications for grant assistance for the remainder of 2010-11 are as follows:
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Friday 31 December 2010
Non-eligible works
Work already complete or underway i.e. retrospective grants
- Routine maintenance, including redecoration unless the decoration is needed as a direct result of eligible repair
- Interior repairs, unless they result directly from repairs to the structure, or are vital to its preservation
- Pedestrianisation schemes, new design and speculative recreations of lost features and townscape
Grants may also available for reinstatement of architectural features such as railings, chimneys and ornamental masonry and public realm improvements. Please contact the City Heritage Office if you are proposing this type of work.
