House lifts, relocation and flood rectification
The Resilient Homes Program, supported by the NSW Government, offers financial aid to qualifying homeowners to enhance the flood resilience of residential properties in the Northern Rivers and Central West regions. Options include home raising, rebuild, relocation and retrofit.
With a strong background in home renovations, as well as house lifting and relocation, Ultra Developments is ready to provide you end to end support in navigating the grant application process as well as design, construction and/or management of your project. For expert guidance, please contact us.
The NSW Reconstruction Authority oversees the program, and eligibility details can be found on their website. Visit the link below for more information.
Resilient Homes Program
What is it?
The Resilient Homes Program helps communities recover from disasters. It also makes eligible homes in high-risk areas more resilient to the impacts of future disasters. This program is being delivered by the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA).
What does it do?
The program offers money to:
- Buy back homes at high risk.
- Make homes more resilient to future floods.
This funding supports voluntary home buybacks and measures to increase resilience to future flooding in impacted communities in the Central West local government area (LGA).
Who can apply?
Eligible homeowners impacted by floods in the following Central West Local Government Areas can apply:
Central West region
- Cabonne
- Forbes
- Lachlan
- Parkes
- Euabalong in Cobar
What help is available?
- Resilient Measures:
- Home Raising – a grant payment of up to $100,000 (including GST) towards the cost of elevating the liveable areas of the home and associated consequential works
- Home Rebuild – a grant payment of up to $100,000 (including GST) towards the cost of rebuilding a more resilient home where the property was destroyed or uninhabitable
- Home Relocation – a grant of up to $100,000 (including GST) to help homeowners relocate their current home to a safer location on their property, or to another property in the region
- Home Retrofit – a grant payment up to $50,000 (including GST) towards the cost of retrofitting and/or repair work of on the home to incorporate flood resilient design and materials in eligible areas.
Where the estimated costs for the Resilient Measures (i.e. Home Raising, Home Rebuild, Home Relocation and Home Retrofit) is more than the available grant value, RA will match financial contributions provided by the homeowner for eligible activities (co-contribution) up to a maximum of 100% of the available grant value.
The maximum grant and co-contribution for a single home is:
- Home Raising or Home Rebuild – $100,000 including GST plus $100,000 in co-contribution up to the maximum grant value of $200,000 in total including GST.
- Home Retrofit – $50,000 including GST plus $50,000 in co-contribution up to a maximum grant value of $100,000 in total.
In some circumstances the RA may waive the co-contribution requirement for eligible homeowners.
Free Home Assessments are also available for homeowners who may be eligible for Resilient Measures. In the Central West, homeowners within the Home Assessment stream will also eligible for a Home Assessment.
Homeowners eligible for Resilient Measures may also seek a grant for costs associated with other assessment activities, such as planning documentation, feasibility, design, and development approvals, where appropriate, and up to a maximum of $20,000 including GST per property.
Please call 1800 844 085 or email resilienthomesprogram@reconstruction.nsw.gov.au the RHP Customer Engagement Team for more information on the grant for costs.
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