Funding Criteria

Whatever type of grant you are applying for, you will be required to appoint an appropriately qualified and conservation accredited professional adviser.

They will complete an application form and prepare a Conservation Statement. The Conservation Statement must set out how your proposals will conserve and enhance the World Heritage Site, and explain who will benefit from the works.

The following criteria will be used to help assess and prioritise applications:

• architectural merit
• historic interest
• townscape value
• evidence of risk to the property or historic environment
• urgency of work required
• threat to Site’s Outstanding Universal Values
• compliance with policies and objectives in the EWH Site Management Plan and Action Plan
• improvements to economic and social conditions
• overall financial viability of the project
• financial need for grant demonstrated
• public realm work of historic significance
• sustainability of development

The kind of work we do not fund within a Conservation Scheme:

• routine maintenance and minor repairs
• alterations and private interior work
• demolitions
• upgrading of services
• underground drainage
• stone cleaning
• work already under way

Stone cleaning may damage stone and is therefore not acceptable to EWH. The removal of paint from stonework, where appropriate and by an approved method, may however be eligible for grant. For further information contact the City of Edinburgh Council Listed Buildings team tel. 0131 529 3989.