Special Projects Unit

The Townsville City Council, through the Special Projects Unit, recognises the city's character, identity and image is critically linked to its older buildings and seeks to encourage and assist owners of such buildings in restoring and sympathetically altering these historic buildings.

Despite the changes in the built environment, places reflecting the city's development and evolution as a city and provincial centre remain.

• Obtain a Heritage Information Kit
• A Chronological History of Townsville

The Special Projects Unit also conducts a series of programs which aim to enrich the character of Townsville and the lives of its residents.

Architectural Advisory Service

To encourage and assist building owners to restore and undertake sympathetic alterations to historic buildings the Council has established an Architectural Advisory Service of local architects administered through the Special Projects Unit and the Heritage Officer.

The purpose of this unit is to advise Council on all heritage matters, and run a series of programs seeking to enrich the character of Townsville and the lives of its residents.

Community Heritage Grants Program

The Community Heritage Grants Program aims to develop conservation strategies for places of significance, undertake conservation work to significant places, undertake research projects enlarging the body of knowledge about a particular topic of Townsville's history and results in publication, and undertake the conservation of artefacts held in a public collection.

• Community Heritage Grant information and form

Sustainable Housing Information Kit

The guides in this kit provide ideas for improving existing homes and designing new homes to be more energy-efficient and climate-responsive. Including these aspects into the home will lessen the impact on the environment and be more cost-effective in the long term.

• Sustainable Housing Information Kit

For more information, please phone 4727 9000 or contact the Special Projects Unit.

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