We now recycle 28.2% of all household waste we collect 
Built Heritage - Heritage fund grant
Home > Services > Environment and Planning > Planning > Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
The council's heritage fund grant scheme helps owners of listed buildings with the additional costs of using traditional methods and materials to repair and restore their property.
These photographs show the Scotch Girls Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley before and after restoration works supported by heritage fund grant.
These photographs show the Scotch Girls Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley before and after restoration works supported by heritage fund grant.
The council's planning and transport department manage the grants scheme subject to specific guidelines:
Grants are given at the discretion of the council to the owners of listed buildings towards the costs of carrying out repairs or enhancement work to their property.
Grants are conditional and must comply with council policies.
Grants are given at the discretion of the council to the owners of listed buildings towards the costs of carrying out repairs or enhancement work to their property.
Grants are conditional and must comply with council policies.
In the case of occupied or recently vacated listed buildings, the eligible costs will be restricted to those incurred through a need to use traditional materials in any repair or enhancement works. Such works would include:
- reinstatement of appropriate doors and windows
- repairs to stonework
- roof and chimney repair
- repairs to boundary walls and railings.
In the case of a vacant, redundant building, or where the applicant is a non-profit making organisation, the eligible costs will be those incurred in carrying out essential repair work to preserve the building or bring it back into beneficial use. Such works can include both enhancement/repair work and structural work. The grant payable will be 25% of eligible costs, up to a maximum grant of £10,000 per building per year.
Heritage fund grant will be not paid where the applicant accepts financial help from any other Council source, unless it can be shown that adequate deficit funding cannot be achieved from any other source.
Heritage fund grant will not be paid for a building owned by any public sector agency.
Application forms are available from the department of planning and transport . The forms should be completed and returned with sufficient supporting information to clearly explain the proposed works.
Applications for heritage fund grant should be accompanied by at least two itemised competitive tenders or cost estimates prepared by an architect or surveyor.
No grant will be paid where works begin before the director of planning and transport has given written consent.
For more information:
- email:pt@renfrewshire.gov.uk
- phone: 0141 842 5811/5822
- fax: 0141 842 5040
- call or write to us at:
Planning and Transport
Renfrewshire House
Cotton Street
PAISLEY
PA1 1LL
