Heritage
Introduction |
Protecting our heritage |
What's protected? |
Working on heritage items |
Scheduled ecological sites |
Review of residential 1 and 2 zones |
Proposal to schedule central area buildings |
Proposals to schedule buildings in the Auckland isthmus |
Built Heritage Fund |
Natural Area Conservation grant
What's protected?
Types of protection | Categories
of protection | More information about a scheduled item
Types of protection
Auckland has a rich legacy of widely appreciated heritage elements, both
natural and built. The district plan has a particular responsibility to secure
the preservation and maintenance of these resources for the experience and
enjoyment of present and future generations as well as preserving their
intrinsic values and finite characteristics. Heritage resources cover a wide
spectrum. They range from dominant landscape features, like the volcanic cones;
through historic buildings and highly regarded townscape inherited from former
generations; to sites of high archaeological value.
Categories of protection
Scheduled buildings, objects, heritage properties or places
of special value are classified into one of two categories.
Within each of the categories protection is given either to a particular
heritage building or object, or to a particular heritage property. A heritage
property refers not only to a particular building or object but also to the site
or area on which those features are located.
Category A
In this category are buildings, objects and places (or parts of
these) which have outstanding natural beauty, or architectural, scientific or
historical significance well beyond their immediate environs. It is of prime
importance that items listed in Category A are protected.
Category A classification gives district protection to the
exterior of the building together with such other elements (interior, site) as
are particularly specified in the schedule. The demolition of Category A
heritage items is a prohibited activity in the district plan.
Category B
This category includes buildings, objects and places (or parts
of these) of such quality and character that, although less significant than
Category A items, they should not be wilfully removed, damaged or altered in a
significant way unless there is a compelling reason.
A Category B classification gives district plan protection to
the exterior of the building together with such other elements (interior, site,
etc) as are particularly specified in the schedule.
Criteria
To determine whether a building, object, property or place is
worthy of protection in the district plan, any proposed heritage item is
assessed and evaluated against the following factors.
- architecture
- history
- environment
- usefulness
- integrity
Contact us for more
information about how heritage features are assessed and evaluated, or refer to the
district plan:
- Part 5C
- isthmus section
- Part 10
- Hauraki Gulf islands section
- contact us for
information about heritage assessment and evaluation in the central area
More information about a scheduled item
We hold additional information on many of the scheduled items.
You can view this information or get a copy of a report about a specific site
by visiting our Heritage division on Level 10 of the Civic
service centre.
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