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Heritage

Heritage in Byron Shire

Our Shire contains a wide variety of heritage assets.

Local Heritage Places Funding 2020/21

Byron Council has established a Local Heritage Places Grant to assist with conservation works that enhance individual places, buildings and historic streetscapes in the Byron Shire. Funding for 2020/21 has now opened.

Community-Based Heritage Study

Our Heritage Study makes recommendations for the ongoing management and protection of the places in Byron Shire that have heritage value.

Heritage Strategy

The purpose of the Byron Shire Heritage Strategy provides direction for heritage management and links to wider strategic and organisation planning.

Heritage Advisory

Byron Shire Council has engaged the services of Deborah Wray as a heritage advisor. Deborah has a great deal of experience providing heritage advisory services to local government.

Heritage Panel

The Heritage Panel provides support and advice to Council to assist its operations on heritage matters.

Indigenous heritage

Protection and preservation of cultural heritage and the broader environment is very important to the Bundjalung Arakwal people and the Bundjalung nation.