This page provides information to apply for a Heritage Restoration Rebate for works undertaken up to a maximum of $5,000.
Applications now open
The City of Stirling invites eligible property owners to apply for a rebate of up to $5,000 for approved works.
Applications close Monday 1 September 2025.
If you have any questions about the guidelines, deadlines, or the application form, please contact us during business hours at (08) 9205 8555 or email schemes@stirling.wa.gov.au. Please ensure to include your submission number.
When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.
Our heritage restoration rebates have been developed to demonstrate the City of Stirling’s commitment to property owners who want to contribute to the retention and enhancement of buildings on the City’s heritage list, and those categorised as 1 or 2A on the City's Local Heritage Survey.
Eligible applicants are encouraged to seek funding for conservation works which are in the public view and enhance and reveal the heritage significance of the property and/or urgent conservation works required in order to stabilise a building. Examples of such works include but are not limited to:
- Tuck-pointing and restoration of facades
- Re-roofing and guttering with matching original materials
- Repairs to original detailing
- Restoration of verandas
- Paint and render removal
- Chimney repairs
- Repairs to original fences
- Re-stumping
- Treatment of rising damp and salt attack.
Please note that the works must not be retrospective and must be completed within the allocated financial year to be eligible.
If you are unsure whether your works are eligible, please contact us by emailing schemes@stirling.wa.gov.au.
Terms and conditions
Property owners whose place is listed on the City of Stirling’s Heritage List
- Property owners whose place is Categorised as 1 or 2A on the City of Stirling’s Local Heritage Survey
- Non-profit groups who have a long-term lease or legal agreement for the maintenance of a building listed on the City of Stirling’s Heritage List and Local Heritage Survey (Categories 1 and 2A only)
- Person(s) who meet either of the above criteria and have not incurred rates debts with the City of Stirling.
- Any works to buildings not listed on the City of Stirling’s Heritage List or Categorised as 1 or 2A on the City of Stirling’s Local Heritage Survey
- Any works completed prior to an application for a Heritage Incentives Program Grant being made (i.e. no retrospective grants for works already completed will be considered)
- New additions and extensions
- Operational costs
- Equipment costs for items that will be used after the project finishes
- Landscaping
- Documentation costs - assistance with professional/technical advice is available through the City’s Approvals Services Business Unit on (08) 9205 8555.
- The Heritage Incentives Program Rebates fund has one application period per financial year - at the close of the application period, or when the grant fund for that financial year has been expended, no further fund allocations will be made during that financial year
- Eligible projects are entitled to up to 50% of the total cost of the works up to a maximum of $5,000 on any one property
- Rebate funds are not released until the approved project is completed and proof of the following has been submitted:
- Receipts for payment of works by applicant/owner
- Photographs of the completed works
- Where appropriate, a Notice of Completion/Certificate of Building Compliance (please note the works will also be required to be inspected by City of Stirling officers)
- Projects are required to be completed within the financial year in which they are allocated. If you are successful the deadline of works will be communicated via your Heritage Agreement
- Also refer to the Heritage Incentives Program Rebates Conditions of Funding form for additional terms and conditions.
The following selection criteria will apply for all Heritage Incentives Program Rebate applications:
- The proposal demonstrates consistency with the conservation principles contained within the relevant Heritage List Management Category Provisions detailed in Local Planning Scheme No.3 (refer clause 7.2 of the Scheme)
- The contribution the proposed work will make to the retention of the heritage building
- The urgency of the works
- Heritage places whose owners are not subject to ‘demolition-by-neglect’ proceedings
- Projects which have a matching or in-kind contribution from the landowner.
