The time for talking about Whanganui's heritage is over - the district council now needs to come up with a clear strategy.
That message came from a public meeting on Tuesday night seeking ideas to put Whanganui on the map as the country's leading heritage city and district.
District councillor Helen Craig has been working with a small sub-committee pushing the heritage theme. This week's meeting in the Davis Lecture Theatre had speakers from the Whanganui Regional Heritage Trust and Heritage New Zealand.
Mrs Craig said more than 85 people attended, which indicated the depth of support and was a clear signal to the council that it must get moving on the issue.
She said, if the meeting was an indicator, then there was a strong vein of support for the project.