Heritage Planning Funding

The branch offers a variety of community heritage planning programs to encourage and assist local governments in conserving British Columbia’s heritage.

These programs are designed to assist communities in planning and developing self-sustaining heritage conservation programs:

• Community Heritage Context Planning
  Supports planning to identify and explain a community’s heritage context – the major factors and processes that influenced evolution.
• Strategic Planning Program
  Supports the preparation of a five to ten year strategy within which to plan, develop, implement and evaluate a community heritage program.
• Implementation Planning Program
  Supports the preparation of detailed plans outlining how a heritage strategic plan will be implemented.
• Community Heritage Registers Program
  Supports the development of community heritage registers [171kb] by local governments, consistent with the documentation standards of the BC Register of Historic Places.
• Conservation and Feasibility Planning Program
  Supports the preparation of conservation or feasibility plans for historic places officially recognized by a local government.