Homeowners on large lots greater than two hectares, or who have homes that are not habitable due to a landslide during the 2022 floods, may be eligible for one of the below grants under the Resilient Homes Program:
- Retreat Grant – up to $600,000 (based on the value of the primary dwelling)
- Relocation Grant – up to $100,000 towards the relocation of the home to safer land, or off the property.
- Home Raising and Home Retrofit streams - where the home is in a mapped priority level 4 homeowners will be progressed under this stream.
The Resilient Homes Program Guideline specifies additional criteria that may apply to be eligible. For example, it includes that dwellings must be lawfully constructed, and the home must have been impacted during the 2022 floods.
For more detail on these grants please see their website or you can attend the RHP shopfront at 14 Carrington St, Lismore, NSW 2480.
Find out more on the website.
This $9.5 million grant program will support the economic recovery of villages and town centres in the Northern Rivers through direct assistance to small and medium sized businesses and local government-led Central Business Districts activation and revitalisation projects.
Program information and guidelines
It will be delivered across the seven most impacted Local Government Areas in the Northern Rivers region: Tweed, Ballina, Byron, Lismore, Kyogle, Richmond Valley, and Clarence Valley.
Funding is available through two targeted streams:
- Stream 1 – Infrastructure support for small and medium sized businesses. Grant amounts – from $50,000 to $2 million
- Stream 2 – CBD activation and revitalisation projects delivered by Councils. Grant amounts – from $50,000 to $500,000
Applications are required to have a financial co-contribution of at least 30 per cent of the total grant amount.
EOI applications close 4 October 2024. Applications are via Smarty Grants found here.
NSW Police are officially launching a new platform which will link police and the community, enabling members of the public to interact directly with police dispatchers and police responding to emergencies. See the article here.
‘BluLink’ allows the public to provide police with GPS coordinates, live video streaming, digital media uploads, and text messages via a link sent to them from Triple Zero (000) dispatchers.
The platform can be used to help police confirm the exact location of an emergency, and for the public to send live vision to police of incidents as they unfold.
The information will assist in the dispatch of appropriate resources by allowing police to better triage incidents, and potentially support subsequent investigations.