The Lismore City Council should know next week whether its plans to build the new Lismore Regional Gallery have been approved.
The Joint Regional Planning Panel will consider a development application for the gallery.
The proposal involves the re-development of the former Lismore High School C-Block building, located within the grounds of the Northern Rivers Conservatorium in Keen Street.
It would include the gallery itself, as well as office space, combined event, function and workshop spaces, meeting rooms, commercial space (bookshop and café) and an outdoor quadrangle with awnings and associated civil works.
The development also includes on site car parking, a loading bay for the gallery, tree removal, landscaping and modification of the access to Northern Rivers Conservatorium parking.
Lismore City Council has received a Stronger Regions Fund grant of $2.85 million for project, which will cost a total of $5.8 million.
There has also been a donation of $500,000 from the Margaret Olley Arts Trust.
Lismore mayor Jenny Dowell said although she was on the Joint Regional Planning Panel she would absent herself from the vote.
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