Nominations are open for Orange City Council’s Cultural Heritage Awards 2023. The biennial awards aim to recognise and encourage outstanding contributions to cultural heritage conservation.
Orange Mayor Jason Hamling said the awards were about acknowledging the commitment made by property owners in maintaining and conserving the city’s older buildings and building community interest in the city’s heritage.
RESTORATION: The former Lands Office, now OCTEC, won the award for best heritage treatment of a commercial building in the 2021 awards.
“Orange has some fantastic examples of older buildings that have been beautifully restored and revitalised. It’s great to see when someone takes the time to care for older buildings and takes pride in heritage conservation,” Cr Hamling said.
There are eight categories for the 2023 awards:
- Restoration of a residential heritage building, including streetscape element restoration (e.g verandah, front fence)
- Adaptive reuse of an existing building (including cultural heritage and sustainability concepts)
- Infill development – a new building in an existing heritage streetscape including unit duplex developments
- Best heritage treatment of a commercial building
- Best work on a heritage building in Lucknow, Spring Hill or a rural area within the Orange LGA
- Best conservation or improvements to landscape/garden design which is appropriate to its environment
- Best Improvements to a building which is under 50 years old
- Best individual or group contribution to the cultural heritage of Orange.
Projects must have been completed within the last five years and previous award-winning projects are ineligible to enter.
“Entries can come from property owners, family or friends who have watched a restoration project develop or it could also be from a builder or tradesman who has worked on a project, however, it’s important to get the permission of the owner before you put in an entry,’ Cr Hamling said.
The deadline for entries is 5pm, Friday 14 July 2023. Nomination forms and more information is available from the Orange Civic Centre, Orange City Library or online at https://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/our-heritage/awards/
