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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 13, 2020

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor R. McMahon

To ask the Chief Executive if the Built Heritage Investment Scheme grants is to be run again next year?

REPLY:

The Built Heritage Investment Scheme has been funded by the Department of the Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht since 2015 and is administered and managed by the Councils Architectural Conservation Officer, LUPT Department. The 2020 allocation for SDCC under the BHIS for is €60,000 and 6 no. applicants were submitted by SDCC to the Department for formal approval. All 6 applications received provisional approval and therefore 6 projects will be funded this year.

The allocation for each Local Authority is provided by the Department as part of National Architectural Conservation grant funding and is announced at the end of each year for the following year by the Minister. As the scheme has been very successful for the past 5 years in carrying out conservation works to private and publicly owned Protected Structures and generating employment in the building conservation sector, it is hoped that it will run again next year. Continued funding for the BHIS will be solely dependent on financial support and allocation from the newly established Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.