❓ Mr. Taylor asks about government support for heritage place owners. The Minister details the Heritage Grants Program, highlighting funding allocations, specific projects like the Dingo Flour Mill restoration, and the government's commitment to preserving cultural heritage.
AnsweredQoN 920Legislative Assembly
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HERITAGE GRANTS PROGRAM
920. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Heritage:
I understand that the heritage
grants program recipients were announced recently at North Fremantle's
Dingo Flour mill. Could the minister please advise what the government is doing
to assist owners of heritage places?
920. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Heritage:
I understand that the heritage
grants program recipients were announced recently at North Fremantle's
Dingo Flour mill. Could the minister please advise what the government is doing
to assist owners of heritage places?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Bateman for the question.
As announced, this year the state government, through our
heritage grants program, is putting in $1.286 million towards private property
heritage place owners in this state for a range of restoration works for those
properties. This funding will unlock some $2.72 million as a minimum of
reinvestment from those owners back into these heritage projects. That money is
funding 11 metropolitan and 16 regional projects in the state this year—a
total of 27. One of those, as the member for Bateman mentioned, includes the
iconic Dingo Flour mill. It is perhaps one of the best known pieces of public
art now in this state. Although it was not initially painted with a view to
becoming such an iconic place, it certainly has become that over time. An
allocation of $82 500 of this grant money will go towards the restoration of
those silos and also towards the complete restoration of the iconic red Dingo
sign on the side of those silos. That Dingo sign was painted by Mr Les Nash in
1940. There is a range of rumours about the sign, but it was actually painted
in 1940 and it has never since been redesigned. It has been touched up and
repainted, but that Dingo sign is still on the original corrugated steel sheets
on which it was painted in 1940 and still stands as the original design.
However, having spent some 75 years now in that very exposed
location, those corrugated steel sheets have reached the end of their life
span, and this grant money will unlock the potential for Allied Mills to not
only replace those corrugated sheets, but also completely restore the Dingo
sign to make sure it is colour matched as close as possible so that it will be
returned to what we all know it to be. Indeed, this is part of an ongoing $10 million
redevelopment across that entire heritage-listed site. Four of the 27 projects
will achieve the maximum grant amount of $100 000. One of those, which is
another Roller Flour Mills site in Katanning, will see that old flour mill
redeveloped as a Dome Cafe and also as boutique hotel accommodation. It will be
a first for the Dome coffee chain to include boutique accommodation alongside its
well-known cafes and to go into a heritage building here in this state.
This heritage grants program, along with the significant
increase that this state government brought into place in 2012 with a further
$1 million over four years, demonstrates the significance that this government
places on heritage and our ongoing commitment to preserving our cultural
heritage in this stage.
As announced, this year the state government, through our
heritage grants program, is putting in $1.286 million towards private property
heritage place owners in this state for a range of restoration works for those
properties. This funding will unlock some $2.72 million as a minimum of
reinvestment from those owners back into these heritage projects. That money is
funding 11 metropolitan and 16 regional projects in the state this year—a
total of 27. One of those, as the member for Bateman mentioned, includes the
iconic Dingo Flour mill. It is perhaps one of the best known pieces of public
art now in this state. Although it was not initially painted with a view to
becoming such an iconic place, it certainly has become that over time. An
allocation of $82 500 of this grant money will go towards the restoration of
those silos and also towards the complete restoration of the iconic red Dingo
sign on the side of those silos. That Dingo sign was painted by Mr Les Nash in
1940. There is a range of rumours about the sign, but it was actually painted
in 1940 and it has never since been redesigned. It has been touched up and
repainted, but that Dingo sign is still on the original corrugated steel sheets
on which it was painted in 1940 and still stands as the original design.
However, having spent some 75 years now in that very exposed
location, those corrugated steel sheets have reached the end of their life
span, and this grant money will unlock the potential for Allied Mills to not
only replace those corrugated sheets, but also completely restore the Dingo
sign to make sure it is colour matched as close as possible so that it will be
returned to what we all know it to be. Indeed, this is part of an ongoing $10 million
redevelopment across that entire heritage-listed site. Four of the 27 projects
will achieve the maximum grant amount of $100 000. One of those, which is
another Roller Flour Mills site in Katanning, will see that old flour mill
redeveloped as a Dome Cafe and also as boutique hotel accommodation. It will be
a first for the Dome coffee chain to include boutique accommodation alongside its
well-known cafes and to go into a heritage building here in this state.
This heritage grants program, along with the significant
increase that this state government brought into place in 2012 with a further
$1 million over four years, demonstrates the significance that this government
places on heritage and our ongoing commitment to preserving our cultural
heritage in this stage.
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