The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is looking for input on a draft Heritage Building Policy and has launched a survey to provide the community with an opportunity to review and provide input before it is finalized and presented to Council.
The draft policy was developed in collaboration with Chatham-Kent’s Municipal Heritage Committee and with input from the community gathered from an initial survey. It includes:
– Clear goals, objectives and local priorities.
– Defined roles for Council, the Municipal Heritage Committee and property owners.
– Transparent decision-making processes and criteria for protecting, altering and redeveloping heritage buildings.
“Chatham-Kent features an amazing diversity of interesting and unique heritage buildings that remind us of our history and reflect our identity as a community,” said Mayor Darrin Canniff, in a media release.
“The new public policy will enhance the way we collectively decide which heritage buildings are significant and important enough to conserve for future generations and how we manage changes to heritage buildings. We invite you to fill out the survey.”
“The goal of this survey is to ask the community ‘Did we get the draft policy right? Did we miss anything?” said Gabriel Clarke, Manager of Growth & Sustainability, in a media release.
“This is a rare opportunity to update a policy that will have a major impact on the future of Chatham-Kent’s heritage buildings, so it’s really important we hear from our residents,” he added.
The draft policy, a plain language summary of the draft policy, and the survey itself can be accessed at www.letstalkchatham-kent.ca/built-heritage.
The survey will be live from now until July 31, 2025.
