The strategy, prepared for the Central Otago Heritage Trust (COHT) by Alice Spiers, of Wanaka, had just been peer reviewed and would now go to COHT board members for their consideration, trust chairman Graye Shattky said.
The strategy would then go to COHT member groups and other stakeholders for comment, and then be presented and adopted at a public forum.
Mr Shattky was not sure of the timeframe for the strategy, but said it was a ''great outcome'' for the region to have the strategy almost ready for adoption.
The strategy was the result of consultation done for the Towards Better Heritage Outcomes for Central Otago document prepared in 2012, he said.
The COHT was formed following the completion of the document, and given a mandate to ''facilitate heritage outcomes'' for the region, Mr Shattky said.
This would include things like providing advice to owners of heritage buildings about how to protect their buildings.
The COHT would also lobby for wider assistance and change, for example by seeking ''rates breaks'' for owners of historic buildings.
Mr Shattky said there were many historic buildings in Central Otago with Heritage New Zealand classifications or listed in the Central Otago District Council's district plan, and it was important to protect as many buildings as possible.
''We should be making every effort to focus on those buildings important for their history or construction. They are exemplars of many others that have disappeared.''
