Mar 2, 2020

The Save Mavisbank project has been invited to submit an application for funding to the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) Heritage Horizon Awards, to compete for a share of £50m funding. Historic Environment Scotland and The Landmark Trust now have until November 2020 to apply for development funding, with funding decisions being made in early 2021.

This brings the project one crucial step closer to saving Mavisbank House and transforming the surrounding landscape for the local community.

Save Mavisbank is the last credible opportunity to rescue the house, and unlock the potential of this remarkable site, after years of neglect, and in doing so be the catalyst for wider environmental, health, economic and cultural benefit. The project would also pioneer how the heritage sector approaches such seemingly intractable sites in the future, and has been judged to have shown the ‘vision, ambition and the potential to be truly transformational’ by the NLHF committee.

Midlothian Council are supportive of the project, and have agreed to use its statutory power of compulsory purchase to acquire legal title to the house if funding can be secured.

Find out more here:

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/twelve-pioneering-projects-shortlisted-heritage-horizon-awards

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/mavisbank-house-and-landscape/

https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/saving-mavisbank/