A COMMEMORATIVE Blue Plaque Scheme to celebrate notable people, places and events across Neath Port Talbot is now open.
Known as the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Blue Plaque Scheme, it will play a valuable role in promoting conservation, by highlighting people and buildings with historic associations in our communities.
Blue Plaques are a source of information, education and celebration, they will create opportunities for future activities such as Blue Plaque Trails and QR code links to website stories of significant people, places and events in our shared history. They have the capacity to promote the heritage of each community with Neath Port Talbot. The scheme is also a key priority of the council’s recently adopted Heritage Strategy 2024-2039 (Restore, Regenerate, Repurpose).
The council will fund two plaques per year. However, if a business, group, or individual can self-fund a blue plaque, they can submit their nomination online to the Heritage NPT Team’s selection panel: https://www.npt.gov.uk/business/regeneration/commemorative-blue-plaque-scheme/
The panel will check and vet all applications to ensure that all criteria has been met and that the application is appropriate with the panel’s recommendations being reported to Cabinet Members for a final decision.
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