Ten building owners received help from the Dunedin Heritage Fund, which was set up by the Dunedin City Council to help building owners restore the city’s heritage stock.
The funding is the third tranche for the financial year, with $346,000 granted so far.
It is being put towards heritage aspects of projects worth more than $4 million.
Those include a $2.6 million project at 462 Moray Pl, which gained resource consent last year to establish residential units on the first floor.
Dunedin Heritage Fund chairman David Benson-Pope said despite increases to the fund in recent years — the funding available this year was $400,000 — it was ‘‘still a smaller part of most projects’’.
Cr Benson-Pope said not all grants had been taken up, meaning there would be more money in the pot for the final round before the end of the financial year.
The fund was only ‘‘one part of the quiver’’ the council had to promote heritage redevelopment.
There was also rates relief and rates remission for building owners.
That allowed a rates holiday to help cash flow before owners were hit with a rates increase sparked by the increase in building value.
Cr Benson-Pope said there was a wide range of work for which building owners wanted funding.
In the past that had been everything from the excavation of a waka on the Otago Peninsula to work on the spire of First Church.
Funds had been provided for everything from double glazing to reinstatement of original features such as balustrades or chimneys.
