Issues

Our historical and cultural heritage not only represents our legacy from the past but also forms an essential part of our existing environment, identity and sense of place. It has different connotations for different people and different sectors of the community, with heritage values derived from a range of places, features, customs, traditions and changes over time.

Historic heritage is broadly defined in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) as ‘natural and physical resources that contribute to an understanding and appreciation of New Zealand’s social history and cultures’. Historic heritage values are diverse, and may result from a range of qualities, including archaeological, cultural, historic, and natural factors. Included are historic sites, structures, places and areas, archaeological sites, sites of significance to Māori (including wāhi tapu), and associated surroundings.

Historic heritage is required to be identified and protected from inappropriate subdivision, use and development as a matter of national importance under the Resource Management Act, with statutory protection the responsibility of Regional and District Plans. In addition, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has an important advocacy role in promoting the conservation of New Zealand’s national heritage and administering the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014, including overarching statutory responsibility for archaeological sites (places generally associated with pre-1900 human activity).

Collectively, historic heritage resources provide:

1. A sense of place, identity and continuity, contributing to the overall amenity or character of an area.

2. A pleasant, interesting and meaningful environment for people’s activities.

3. A basis for community well-being and understanding.

4. Connections between past, present and future as an area progresses, so that recognised heritage values can ‘live on’.

5. Reminders of the past (including persons of note and significant events).

6. A source of information on styles and technologies of the past.

7. Interest for visitors, including associated economic opportunities.

Safeguarding historic heritage for future generations requires an appreciation of historic heritage values. The degree of relevance and significance of particular places, features, customs or traditions to local and wider community sectors determines their appropriate level of protection. Ensuring that historic heritage remains well-maintained, structurally sound, and protected against natural hazards assists in sustainably managing the on-going needs of the District’s present and future generations.

Issues or challenges currently facing the District’s historic heritage include:

1. The susceptibility of historic heritage (particularly built heritage of wooden construction) to physical damage or decay, unsympathetic additions or alterations, and impacts on original surroundings, identity and values.

2. Physical effects of development and coastal hazards on archaeological sites adjacent to the District’s extensive coastline.

3. Enhancing public awareness and appreciation of historic heritage, while also limiting access to information where unrestricted release of sensitive information on location or significance could be prejudicial to their protection.

4. Costs associated with statutory identification and protection procedures and on-going maintenance of built heritage (both public and private).

5. Balancing regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to celebrating heritage.

Whangarei District possesses a range of natural and built heritage resources of varying scale, levels of significance and forms of ownership or management (private and public) that help define the District’s identity, as well as providing scientific, tourism, recreational and ecological benefits. These resources may comprise individual items or combinations of features including landscapes, harbours, landforms, indigenous ecosystems, and evidence of early settlement and development of both Māori and European origins.

A prime example of historic heritage evident on a large scale is the entrance to Whangarei Harbour prominently defined by the iconic Bream Head, Taurikura Ridge and Mt Manaia landforms, with the area’s visual landscape (including many hills and islands) having been modified over time as pa sites, sanctuaries and gardens. Various agencies including the Department of Conservation, Northland Regional Council, Queen Elizabeth II Trust, Heritage NZ and Whangarei District Council have shared responsibility for protecting heritage in this location.

At a more local level, reminders of the District’s pioneers, past events and early rural farming, residential activities, social activities, and industrial activities are still evident in street signs, local museums, literary and photographic collections and war memorials. One example is the settlement of Waipu which thrives on its Scottish heritage, with the early Nova Scotian settlers’ influence also extending to other areas including Whangarei Heads. In addition to maintaining a number of scheduled buildings and monuments, the Waipu community also actively celebrates its past through a range of events and facilities including a museum, an early cemetery, a heritage walk, artworks and signage, pageants, and the annual Caledonian Games.

In identifying historic heritage for protection within the District, Council’s emphasis is on historic heritage already listed by Heritage New Zealand; sites and areas of significance to Māori identified by iwi/hapū; and locally, regionally and potentially nationally significant items identified by Council as part of a staged programme in conjunction with the Northland Regional Council. However, Council also envisages this formal process being off-set by additional, more modern approaches to recording, relating and celebrating the stories and events of the past, including non-statutory methods such as heritage trails and information plaques that have proved successful in Whangarei’s Town Basin.

Note:

1. Chapter HH (Historical Heritage) is designed to serve as a framework/overview for historic heritage issues generally, with subsection Built Heritage (BH) addressing specific provisions associated with built heritage (buildings, sites, objects and related surroundings). It is intended that a further subsection (Archaeological Sites and Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori) will be integrated into the chapter as the rolling review of the District Plan progresses.

2. Most trees classed as ‘Heritage Trees’ in the District Plan are regarded as notable more for their amenity or botanical values than heritage significance. Any review of those provisions (beyond those specifically assessed as being integral to the surrounds of a scheduled heritage building) are likely to concentrate on their contribution to the District’s amenity, biodiversity and open space values and will not form part of the Historical Heritage chapter.

Objectives

HH-O1Heritage Values

The diverse historic heritage resources that reflect historical and cultural heritage values at a local, regional and national level are identified, assessed, and protected for the well-being of existing communities and future generations.

HH-O2Tangata Whenua

The relationships of tangata whenua with sites and areas of spiritual, cultural or historical significance are recognised and provided for.

HH-O3Identification and Protection

Identification and protection of historic heritage is undertaken in consultation with statutory organisations with heritage interests, affected landowners, local communities and tangata whenua, while recognising:

1. Heritage New Zealand’s advisory functions and overarching responsibility for the protection of archaeological sites within New Zealand and for identifying historic heritage for entry on the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero.

2. Northland Regional Council policies and procedures relating to historic heritage in the coastal environment.

3. The role, obligations and contributions of owners of historic heritage.

4. Tangata whenua, as guardians (or kaitiaki) of the past, and relevant iwi planning documents.

HH-O4Adverse Effects

The District’s historic heritage resources are protected from adverse effects of subdivision, use and development including damage, destruction, decay, neglect, and unsympathetic additions or alterations, and (where possible) from natural hazards.

HH-O5Information

Historic heritage information held by Council is regularly maintained, reviewed, updated, and accessible to the public except where disclosure could be prejudicial to privacy or the protection of the historic heritage resource.

HH-O6Fostered and Enhance

Community awareness, appreciation and celebration of historic heritage and sense of place within the District is fostered and enhanced through a combination of regulatory and non-statutory initiatives.

Policies

HH-P1Identification, Assessment and Scheduling of Built Heritage Items

To adopt a consistent, transparent and balanced approach to the identification, assessment and scheduling of historic heritage in the District Plan by:

1. Identifying sites and areas of significance to Māori in accordance with procedures and criteria established in conjunction with iwi/hapū.

2. Giving priority to historic heritage resources and historic areas listed by Heritage New Zealand and locally, regionally and nationally significant items identified by Council as part of a targeted and progressively-staged approach in collaboration with the Northland Regional Council when scheduling built heritage items.

3. Enabling informed public input into District Plan Historic Heritage Schedules through the statutory plan change process where recommendations from individuals or community groups are supported by:

   1. Statements of significance prepared by a recognised heritage expert or archaeologist, as appropriate.

   2. Approval of the property owner.

   3. Evidence of any consultation with Heritage New Zealand.

   4. Any additional Resource Management Act information requirements.

   5. Any required plan change fees/deposits.

HH-P2Internal and External Influences

To protect the context and integrity of historic heritage resources scheduled in the District Plan by:

1. Requiring careful design and location of subdivision, use and development in order to retain physical elements of historic heritage, and where practical enhance public use, visibility and access.

2. Restricting the demolition and relocation of built heritage resources and inappropriate modifications, additions or alterations.

3. Recognising the collective value of groups of heritage buildings, structures and/or places, (including scheduled historic areas and landscapes) particularly where these are representative of the district, region’s or nation’s historic settlements, architecture, periods in history, or district-wide heritage themes.

4. Discouraging activities that compromise important spiritual or cultural values held by Māori/Mana Whenua and /or the wider community associated with particular historic heritage places or features.

HH-P3Adverse Physical and Visual Effects

To protect historic heritage from adverse physical and visual effects of internal and adjacent subdivision, land use and earthworks particularly where:

1. Proposals are in proximity to scheduled built heritage resources, known archaeological sites, or sites of significance to Māori.

2. The presence of archaeological sites is likely, particularly adjacent to the coast, rivers and streams.

3. Subdivision or development would result in the loss, damage, fragmentation or separation of historic heritage resources.

4. Public views of the historic heritage resource, or public access would be lost or obstructed.

HH-P4Different Forms of Historic Heritage

To acknowledge the relationships between different forms of historic heritage within scheduled historic areas by requiring that future subdivision and development within such areas consider:

1. Individual and cumulative effects on historic heritage values.

2. Themes or connections linking historic heritage resources.

3. The character, scale, form and intensity of existing and proposed built development.

4. Effects on the surrounding environment including landscapes and streetscapes.

HH-P5Increase Public Awareness

To increase public awareness of the nature and location of historic heritage resources by ensuring regularly updated information maintained by Council is accessible to the public, including through means such as:

1. District Plan Heritage Schedules and District-Wide Matters maps.

2. Access to Heritage New Zealand Lists.

3. GIS mapping information based on data provided by Heritage New Zealand and the NZ Archaeological Association to satisfy statutory requirements associated with the issuing of Land Use Information Memoranda (LIMs) and Project Information Memoranda (PIMs), and in the assessment and monitoring of resource consent applications.

4. Conditions of resource consent.

5. Use of alert files, where disclosure of sensitive information could prejudice privacy or protection of the heritage resource.

6. Assistance in interpreting requirements for seismic upgrading of earthquake-prone heritage buildings in terms of Building Act 2004, related earthquake legislation and Council Policies.

7. Interpretation through an on-going programme of public education, e.g. signage information.

Note:

In giving effect to the above objectives and policies the additional regulatory and non-regulatory provisions (specified in the following Built Heritage and/or Archaeological Sites/Sites of Significance to Māori sections of Chapter HH) shall also apply.

Built Heritage Provisions

Issues

Built heritage comprises physical or built forms of historic heritage of significance to the District, with examples having been formally recognised by Council since the mid 1980s. The majority of built heritage items currently protected under the District Plan relate primarily to European settlement and are largely residential in nature, although a number of churches and commercial or municipal buildings are also protected, some having been successfully adapted to alternative uses such as offices, restaurants or art galleries. A number of scheduled built heritage items occupy land or reserves in Council ownership, although the majority of these are used, owned, leased and/or managed by community groups. Dry stone walls of historic and amenity value located within volcanic areas on the fringe of Whangarei’s urban area are not individually scheduled but are subject to blanket protection under the District Plan.

Built heritage (particularly buildings of wooden construction) can be susceptible to damage, decay, neglect, natural hazards, and unsympathetic additions or alterations. More intensive subdivision of heritage sites or in close proximity to them can also adversely impact on original heritage values, features, and surroundings. However, due to lower urban growth rates than much of New Zealand, the District’s built heritage is less at risk from demolition or relocation for development purposes.

In addition to District Plan restrictions on demolishing or relocating scheduled built heritage items, controls apply to on-site works to interiors, exteriors and additional buildings, as well as focusing on managing potential effects from adjacent subdivision or development.

Issues that can affect owners of scheduled built heritage include on-going maintenance costs, limited recognition or financial support for their role as custodians of the past, and the foregoing of development potential in some cases. On the other hand, the sustainable management of heritage resources can result in economic benefits, particularly where heritage buildings are sympathetically adapted to alternative uses. Increased emphasis on maintaining the commercial viability of built heritage is therefore promoted in the District Plan.

Overall, it is anticipated that pending the adoption of an overarching Heritage Strategy for the District, a staged approach to statutory identification and protection of built heritage will continue to be undertaken, supported by non statutory means of celebrating our heritage.

Note:

1. The following Chapter Historic Heritage and Built Heritage provisions form the basis of assessment for resource consent applications relating to scheduled built heritage throughout the District:

   1. The overarching Historic Heritage objectives.

   2. The overarching Historic Heritage policies.

   3. The Built Heritage objectives and policies.

   4. Activity status listed in HH-BH-R1 – HH-BH-R8.

   5. Assessment criteria and implementation methods for discretionary activities specified in HH-BH-R9.

Objectives

HH-BH-O1Built Heritage Items

Examples of built heritage items or areas that individually or collectively represent the district’s significant historic heritage values or themes, are identified, assessed and scheduled for protection in the District Plan.

HH-BH-O2Vulnerability of Built Heritage

The vulnerability of scheduled built heritage resources to physical damage, unsympathetic additions or alterations and on-going maintenance costs is recognised and appropriately managed.

HH-BH-O3Dry Stone Walls

Dry stone walls of historic, cultural, amenity and landscape value to the community are maintained and protected throughout the district.

HH-BH-O4Adaptive Re-use and Alternative Management

Adaptive re-use and alternative management of built heritage resources are encouraged where these do not detract from their heritage values or significantly affect the adjacent environment.

HH-BH-O5Non-Regulatory Measures

Formal protection of built heritage is complemented by non-regulatory measures such as local ‘sense of place’ initiatives.

Policies

HH-BH-P1Levels of Significance

To identify and schedule in the District Plan built heritage items and historic areas of significance to the district in terms of listed criteria, while distinguishing between two levels of significance:

1. Group A: Comprising items of special or outstanding significance, including the most significant examples of their type in the District.

2. Group B: Comprising items of historical or cultural significance in the District.

HH-BH-P2Assessment Criteria

To adopt a consistent and informed approach to sustainably managing built heritage within the district by satisfying at least one of the following criteria when identifying, assessing, and scheduling built heritage:

1. Archaeology: The resource has the potential to contribute significantly to our understanding of human history or archaeological research through investigation using archaeological methods.

2. Architecture: The resource is significant due to design, form, scale, materials, style, ornamentation, period, craftsmanship or other architectural elements.

3. Technology: The resource demonstrates innovative or important methods of design, construction materials or techniques, or has potential to contribute information on technical history.

4. Scientific: The resource has the potential to provide significant scientific information about the history of the district, region or nation.

5. Rarity: The resource is unique, uncommon or rare at a district, regional or national level.

6. Representativeness: The resource is an excellent example of its class in terms of design, type, use, technology, time period or other characteristic.

7. Integrity: The resource retains a high proportion of its original characteristics and integrity compared with other examples in the District.

8. Context: The resource forms part of an association of heritage sites or buildings which, when considered as a whole, become important at a district, regional or national scale.

9. Vulnerability: The resource is vulnerable to deterioration or destruction or is threatened by land use activities.

10. People: The resource is directly associated with the life or work of a well-known or important individual, group or organisation.

11. Events: The resource is associated with locally, regionally or nationally significant historic event or events.

12. Patterns: The resource is associated with important aspects, processes, themes or patterns of local, regional or national history.

13. Identity: The resource provides, or significantly contributes to, a sense of place, community identity or cultural or historical continuity.

14. Public esteem: The resource is held in high public esteem for its heritage or aesthetic values or as a focus of spiritual, political, national or other social or cultural sentiment.

15. Commemorative: The resource has symbolic or commemorative significance to past or present users or their descendants, resulting from its special interest, character, landmark, amenity or visual appeal.

16. Education: The resource contributes, through public education, to peoples awareness, understanding and appreciation of New Zealand’s history and cultures.

17. Tangata whenua: The resource place or feature is important to tangata whenua for traditional, spiritual, cultural or historic reasons (with criteria for Sites of Significance to Māori to be determined by hapū).

18. Statutory: The resource is recognised nationally or internationally, including:

    1. World Heritage Site status under the World Heritage Convention 1972.

    2. Listing under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014.

    3. Recognition as having significant heritage value under a statutory acknowledgement (statement in Treaty of Waitangi settlements recognising the mana of tangata whenua groups in relation to identified sites and areas) or other legislation.

HH-BH-P3Protection of Scheduled Built Heritage Items from Internal and/or External Influences

To avoid, remedy or mitigate potential adverse effects on built heritage resources and associated heritage values arising from:

1. Incompatible physical works to scheduled built heritage items.

2. Inappropriate subdivision use or development within the surrounds of a scheduled built heritage item or scheduled historic area.

3. Inappropriate subdivision or development on adjacent sites in proximity to scheduled built heritage.

HH-BH-P4Demolition, Destruction or Significant Change to Scheduled Built Heritage Items

To restrict activities within sites containing scheduled built heritage items that would result in the demolition, destruction or significant change to:

1. The interiors of:

   1. Scheduled Group A built heritage items.

   2. Scheduled Group B built heritage items (where interiors are scheduled in HH-BH Appendix 1).

2. The exteriors of scheduled Group A and B built heritage items.

3. The surroundings of scheduled Group A and B built heritage items, particularly where surroundings are specifically scheduled in the District Plan.

HH-BH-P5Repairs and Maintenance

To enhance the sustainability of scheduled built heritage items and recognise ‘living heritage’ by encouraging and enabling repairs and maintenance where:

1. Repairs retain historic fabric as far as possible, and make good deteriorated or damaged material using the same or similar materials, detail, finish, texture, form and design.

2. Maintenance and repairs do not result in a change to the form, detailing or scale of the building or structure.

3. Painting is not applied to previously unpainted surfaces or render applied to previously unplastered surfaces.

4. Cleaning does not use abrasive or high pressure cleaning such as sand or water blasting.

HH-BH-P6Additions and Alterations

To preserve the integrity of scheduled heritage items and values when undertaking additions and alterations, particularly external works, by:

1. Retaining the predominant style, design and character features.

2. Recognising age, scale, character and locational context.

3. Maintaining compatibility in terms of form, materials and colour.

4. Minimising the loss of fabric, structural modifications or increases in building and major structure coverage.

5. Focusing on the repair of features rather than replacement.

6. Avoiding alterations to street frontage façades.

7. Avoiding constructing and locating buildings or major structures between the listed heritage item and the street/road or other public place.

8. Limiting the size, location and visibility of dish antenna and aerial structures.

HH-BH-P7Seismic Upgrading

To encourage and enable seismic upgrading of earthquake-prone built heritage items that assists in building survival and enhances building and public safety, while not detracting from recognised heritage values.

HH-BH-P8Dish Antenna and Aerial Structures

To minimize the visual impact of dish antenna and aerial structures on heritage fabric and values by limiting such features to those of a scale, function and appearance common to Residential Zones and Settlement Zones. Where possible, such features should be positioned to avoid visibility from the road/street or other public place.

HH-BH-P9Adaptive Re-Use and Alternative Ownership/Management of Built Heritage

To encourage and facilitate on-going use or adaptive re-use of built heritage items (including through possible relaxation of underlying development controls such as parking requirements) where this will secure their long-term viability, conservation or protection without leading to significant adverse effects on the surrounding environment.

HH-BH-P10Alternative Methods

To encourage alternative methods of management, ownership, guardianship, or sponsorship of built heritage resources, including public buildings and major structures, where:

1. Heritage values will not be compromised.

2. The long-term viability, protection or conservation of the heritage resource will be secured or enhanced.

3. Benefits such as improved access to funding can be achieved.

HH-BH-P11Role of Owners

To acknowledge the role of owners of scheduled built heritage resources as guardians of the past, and to support their efforts to conserve, maintain and enhance their heritage assets, including through possible use of financial instruments such as rates relief, grants, and waiver of resource consent fees.

HH-BH-P12Dry Stone Walls

To protect dry stone walls of historical, cultural and amenity value to the community through:

1. Blanket protection of dry stone walls throughout the District.

2. Providing information and advice to the public, including Geographic Information Systems information on the location of protected dry stone walls.

3. Discouraging planting close to dry stone walls.

4. Encouraging proactive maintenance, for example repair of capping stones.

5. Recommending consultation with Heritage New Zealand where dry stone walls are estimated to have been constructed prior to 1900 or their age is in doubt.

6. Limiting works affecting existing dry stone walls, other than:

   1. Repairs or maintenance in situ using traditional methods, design and materials.

   2. Removal of up to 6m length of wall for accessway purposes only, where no alternative accessway exists.

Rules

HH-BH-R1Any Activity Not Otherwise Listed in This Chapter

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. Resource consent is not required under any rule of the District Plan.

2. The activity is not prohibited under any rule of the District Plan.

HH-BH-R2Dish Antenna

All Zones

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. The dish antenna does not exceed a diameter of 0.9m on a scheduled built heritage item or within its surrounds when it is visible from a street or other public place.

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R3Works to Existing Dry Stone Walls

All Zones

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. The works are for:

   1. Repairs or maintenance in situ using traditional methods, design and materials.

   2. Removal of up to a total 6m length of wall per site for accessway purposes only, where no alternative accessway exists.

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R4Works to Scheduled Built Heritage Items

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. The works do not involve any of the following:

   1. Demolition, destruction, or relocation (on-site or off-site) of a scheduled Group B built heritage item.

   2. Internal or external additions or alterations (other than repairs or maintenance) to a scheduled Group A built heritage item.

   3. Internal alterations (where interiors are scheduled in HH-BH Appendix 1 – Schedule of Built Heritage Items) or external additions or alterations (other than repairs or maintenance) to a scheduled Group B built heritage item.

   4. Structural upgrading of a scheduled Group A built heritage item for seismic reasons where works involve internal or external alterations.

   5. Structural upgrading of a scheduled Group B built heritage item for seismic reasons where works involve external alterations visible from a street/road or other public place.

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R5Construction or Alterations to Buildings and Major Structures Within a Site or Scheduled Historic Area in which a Scheduled Built Heritage Item is Located

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. The site or scheduled historic area is not in a Residential Zone, Settlement Zone or Business Zone.

2. The proposed works are not within 20m of a built heritage item in any Zone (excluding a Residential Zone, Settlement Zone or Business Zone).

3. The proposed buildings and major structures are not located between a scheduled built heritage item and the street/road or other public place.

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R6Construction or Alterations of Buildings and Major Structures on Sites Immediately Adjoining the Site of a Scheduled Built Heritage Item

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. The proposed works do not exceed bulk and location controls of the underlying Zone relating to height, height in relation to boundary, maximum coverage or density.

2. The proposed works (in a Residential Zone, Settlement Zone or Business Zone) are set back at least 5m from the common boundary except where a minimum separation of 20m is maintained between the proposed works and the scheduled built heritage item.

3. The proposed works are set back at least 20m from the built heritage item in any Zone (excluding a Residential Zone, Settlement Zone or Business Zone).

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R7Adaptive Re-Use of Scheduled Built Heritage Items

Activity Status: Permitted

Where:

1. Adaptive re-use of built heritage items does not infringe underlying Zone development controls.

Activity Status when compliance not achieved: Discretionary

HH-BH-R8Demolition, Destruction, or Relocation (On-Site or Off-Site) of a Scheduled Group A Built Heritage Item

Activity Status: Non-Complying

HH-BH-R9Subdivision and Historical Heritage

Activity Status: Discretionary

Where:

1. Subdivision is proposed of any site containing a scheduled built heritage item.

2. Subdivision is proposed within a scheduled historic area.

3. Subdivision is proposed of a site adjoining a site containing a scheduled built heritage item where proposed building platforms are:

   1. Set back less than 5m from the common boundary (in Residential Zones, Settlement Zones or Business Zones) other than where a minimum separation distance of 20m is maintained between the building platforms and the scheduled built heritage item.

   2. Set back less than 20m from the scheduled built heritage item (in all other Zones).

4. Subdivision is proposed of any site (including sites used for utility, road, reserve, or accessway purposes) where removal of dry stone walls is proposed.

Matters of Discretion:

When assessing discretionary activities the assessment should address (but is not limited to) the following criteria, where relevant:

1. The significance of heritage values associated with the built heritage item and surroundings.

2. The extent to which the activity may adversely affect heritage values.

3. The effects of the activity on the locality and streetscape, including any loss or obstruction of visibility from the street or other public space.

4. The degree to which (i) the donor site contributes to the value of the built heritage item where relocation is sought, and (ii) the recipient site contains any heritage values of relevance.

5. The extent to which relocation is the only (or most sustainable) means of saving the built heritage item.

6. The extent to which all feasible options and alternatives to demolition or destruction have been explored.

7. The degree to which the heritage item or site contributes to ‘sense of place’ initiatives or district-wide heritage themes.

8. The importance attributed to the heritage item by the wider community, including tangata whenua.

9. Whether the scheduled built heritage item is included on the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga List and if so, the reasons for listing.

10. The results of consultation with Heritage New Zealand and any other recognised party in heritage conservation issues, including any statements of significance, archaeological or cultural assessments, recommendations or approvals by suitably qualified and experienced heritage practitioners (particularly where an item is listed by Heritage New Zealand and/or is an archaeological site requiring an ‘Authority to Modify’).

11. Whether the activity meets the policies of any conservation plan and heritage inventory relating to the built heritage item.

12. The extent to which the activity accords with the general principles of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) New Zealand Charter (revised 2010.)

13. The extent to which the activity contributes to, or encourages, the long term viability and/or ongoing functional use of the item or site.

Note:

1. In addition to the preceding rules and assessment criteria, Council may also implement the following non-statutory methods in giving effect to the objectives and policies comprised in Chapter HH.

   1. Non-statutory guidance to supplement statutory information requirements detailed in HH-P5, such as:

      1. An overarching, district-wide Heritage Strategy consolidating statutory and non-statutory heritage issues and actions, and Council heritage policies, priorities and timeframes.

      2. A comprehensive non-statutory inventory of information on scheduled heritage items to supplement the details in the District Plan Historic Heritage Schedules.

      3. Guidelines for the public on the location, significance and history of scheduled historic heritage, including historic areas.

      4. Guidelines for owners of heritage properties on repair, maintenance and painting (including appropriate colour schemes) of scheduled built heritage items.

      5. Guidelines on obtaining access to heritage funding (internal and external sources).

      6. Advice on the sourcing of additional heritage information held by Council including library literary, photographic and genealogical services and collections, cemetery records, museums and art galleries.

   2. Adoption of less formal, non-regulatory approaches to recounting the District’s stories of the past, in conjunction with traditional heritage protection, including:

      1. Design and funding of ‘sense of place’ initiatives (such as plaques, sign boards, heritage walks or trails, commemorative structures, and events).

      2. Promoting the Waterfront as a cultural/heritage precinct.

      3. Exploring and promoting the benefits of heritage tourism to the District.

      4. Supporting community groups managing and/or maintaining built heritage items, including public buildings and major structures.

      5. Encouraging sponsorship of historic heritage where this does not adversely impact on heritage or amenity values.

      6. Identifying areas, items or themes of heritage interest through community engagement in structure plans.

   3. Possible use of economic instruments reflecting the role and demands of owners of historic heritage resources in conserving historic heritage for public benefit, such as:

      1. Heritage funding (such as maintenance grants).

      2. Resource consent fee reductions or waivers, particularly where consent is required solely for remedial or maintenance works to historic heritage.

      3. Rates relief.

Note:

1. The adoption of non-statutory implementation methods may be dependent on the priorities and timeframes of the Whangarei District Growth Strategy 30/50 Implementation Plan and availability of funding under Council’s Long Term and Annual Plans.

HH-BH Appendix 1 - Schedule of Built Heritage Items

The Schedule below contains details of Built Heritage Items (buildings, major structures, sites and objects) and historic areas indicated on the District Wide Matters Map series. Works to items included in this Schedule as well as subdivision or development proposals in proximity to these items, (including adjacent sites), may be subject to the objectives, policies, rules and other provisions detailed in this Chapter.

Where individual built heritage items are also collectively scheduled as historic areas, these are recorded in HH-BH-SCHED3 – Scheduled Historic Areas (refer Table HH 3).

The second column in the Schedules (refer Tables HH 1-4) provides reference numbers of items also included in the New Zealand Heritage List (Rārangi Kōrero) administered by Heritage New Zealand. Applicants seeking to undertake works affecting items listed by both Heritage New Zealand and Whangarei District Council are encouraged to seek advice from Heritage New Zealand prior to seeking resource consent from Whangarei District Council (if required).

Where the interiors of Group B built heritage items are scheduled in HH-BH-SCHED2 – Group B Scheduled Built Heritage items (refer Table HH 2), they are annotated by an asterisk (*) in column 1 of the table.

Details of interiors of Group B buildings, where Scheduled, are included in HH-BH-SCHED4 – Details of Scheduled Group B Interiors of this Schedule.

HH-BH-SCHED1 - Group A Scheduled Built Heritage Items

Refer Heritage Item Overlay on the District-Wide Matters Maps.

HH-BH-SCHED2 - Group B Scheduled Built Heritage Items

Refer Heritage Item Overlay on the District-Wide Matters Maps.

HH-BH-SCHED3 - Scheduled Historic Areas

Refer Heritage Area Overlay on the District-Wide Matters Maps.

HH-BH-SCHED4 - Details of Scheduled Group B Interiors