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LOCAL GOVERNMENT HERITAGE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Applications are now open for the newly established Local Government Heritage Assistance Program.

The program has been established to assist local governments to increase their capacity to carry out their assessment and planning responsibilities relating to heritage places.

Applications close at 5pm on 26 February 2010.

For further information on the assistance program click here.

NEW WEBSITE

Welcome to the Heritage Council of WA's new website.

Here you can find out information on registration, development, grants, incentives, local government heritage programs, awards, research and more. You can also search for places on the State Register of Heritage Places through the Places Database.

We hope our new and improved website is useful to you. For more information, please call the Office of Heritage on (08) 9221 4177 or freecall 1800 644 177.

PIONEER FARMS RECOGNISED

Two homesteads that provide an insight into the early colonial past of the Mid-West have been given State Heritage protection.
 
Heritage Minister John Castrilli today announced that Sandsprings Homestead in Sandsprings and Belay Farm in Walkaway have been included on the State Register of Heritage Places.

To read more, visit our media page.

SPOTLIGHT ON GOLDFIELDS' BUILDINGS

Two significant buildings in the Goldfields have been included on the State Register of Heritage Places.

Peter Pan is one of only a handful of Coolgardie houses remaining from the first gold rush of the 1890s.

Named after a dual Melbourne Cup winner, the 1898 single-storey brick and stone house has had a chequered and colourful history, including providing sanctuary to the figure at the centre of the Kalgoorlie race riots of 1934.

Boulder’s former Court House – a landmark in the town’s main street for more than a century – has also been afforded protection under the State’s Heritage Act.

To read more about the registration of these places, visit our media page.

HERITAGE ADVOCATES CELEBRATED 

The contribution to Western Australia by two heritage activists has been recognised through the listing of their Swanbourne home on the State Register of Heritage Places.

John Oldham, a pioneer of landscape architecture in Australia, and his journalist wife Ray were founding members of the National Trust (WA) and were prominent in the fight to save some of WA’s iconic buildings during the 1960s and 1970s.

To read more about this registration, click here.

 

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