Property Hub: Heritage Listed Buildings

Group 1: Buildings that have outstanding national/regional significance

Group 2: Buildings that have national/regional significance

Maintenance, redecoration, repair, seismic strengthening allowed

Avoid or appropriately mitigate anything that could adversely effect, destroy or diminish the heritage values. Avoid demolition or destruction Category 1 buildings, discourage the demolition of Category 2 buildings.

No distinction between heritage categories.

Has a heritage fund.

Permitted: Any Alteration or repair or modification or maintenance that is not visible from the road, or any minor work that doesn’t need a building consent.

Restricted Discretionary: Any other alteration, repair or modification.

Discretionary: Demolition or relocation of the building or structures.

Have a heritage fund.

Permitted: Repair and maintenance.

Controlled: Alterations for earthquake strengthening – not impact exterior work needs to be consistent with materials, quality and detailing.

Restricted Discretionary: Any activity affecting a historic heritage feature, which does not comply with one or more of the permitted or controlled activity standards, Alterations or additions.

Discretionary: Relocation, partial demolition, demolition and destruction.

Non-compliance: partial demolition, demolition and destruction if Heritage NZ identified 1 or 2, Relocation if Heritage NZ Category 1.

Category A: National or international significance.

Category B: Regional or local significance.

Permitted: Maintenance and minor repair, partial or complete demolition if to make building safe after accidental fire, earthquake and flooding, earthquake strengthening, minor external alterations if for security.

Restricted discretionary: External additions need to retain heritage value and be reversable. Relocation of Category B items to due to threat of natural hazard, heritage enhancement, minimize risk of damage.

Discretionary items: External additions or alterations to Category B buildings, relocation on the same site, Seismic strengthening that does not meet the performance standards.

Non-compliance: Partial or complete destruction of any Category A buildings, relocation, external additions, or alterations of Category A buildings, anything else not specifically provided for above.

No distinction between heritage categories.

Permitted: Maintenance, repair of listed buildings. interior alterations, additions or minor partial demolitions, heritage upgrade works that are not visible from the exterior.

Controlled: Heritage upgrade works that are visible from the exterior.

Restricted discretionary: New or relocated buildings or structures within the heritage curtilage.

Discretionary: exterior Additions, alterations, or partial demolition or where the interior is listed. Relocation, demolition, removal.

Category 1: Outstanding cultural heritage and value to the city

Category 2: Cultural heritage to the city.

Permitted: Maintenance and repair, internal alteration/demolition, invasive or destructive testing to determine its structural strength or for repairs as long as it’s repaired.

Controlled: External alteration and additions to Category 2 buildings in a residential zone.

Restricted Discretionary: Relocation, external alterations to Category 1 objects and Category 2 not in the residential zone.

Discretionary: Total or partial demolition, relocation of Category 1 built heritage.

Historic Heritage A: buildings that have outstanding national or regional significance.

Historic Heritage B: buildings with national or regional significance.

Permitted: Interior/exterior maintenance, repair and redecoration, Group B internal alteration.

Controlled: Restoration of Group A and B buildings.

Restricted discretionary: Any alteration or relocation, subdivision, demolition of Group B buildings.

Non-compliant: Demolition of Group A buildings.

Listed buildings matches Heritage NZ.

Permitted: Repair and maintenance, protection and conservation, earthquake strengthening that doesn’t impact exterior.

Controlled: Earthquake strengthening at impacts the exterior (restoration or repair maybe required after).

Restricted Discretionary: alteration, excavation, modification, subdivision, new building or structure on the site.

Discretionary: relocation or demolition.

Category A: Listed by heritage NZ or of outstanding district significance.

Category B: Listed by heritage NZ or of district significance.

Category C: Identified but not protected.

Interventions need to involve as little as possible loss of heritage values, emphasis on repair and changes made with respect to patina.

Considered change allowed with conservation plan and heritage assessments.

Alterations, additions and new adjacent buildings need to be done with respect to the buildings heritage values.

Category A matches Heritage NZ Category 1, Category B matches Heritage NZ Category 2.

Permitted: Minor repairs.

Discretionary: Modification. removal, damage or destruction of Category B items, removal or destruction of Category A buildings for community health and safety purposes.

Prohibited: Removal, damage or destruction of Category A items, unless otherwhere specified.

Listed buildings.

Permitted: Repair and Maintenance to exterior.

Controlled: Alterations and additions.

Discretionary: Partial or total demolition, destruction or removal.

Nothing additional to the Heritage NZ list, not specific separate list.

Permitted: Repair and maintenance, internal additions and alterations.

Restricted discretionary: Modifications respect the current heritage values, addition of signs, new buildings, demolition, partial demolition or relocation.

Have a heritage Fund.

Class A: High values at an international or national level, is ranked highly in several heritage areas and has high integrity or has very significant values in at least one heritage value.

Class B: At a regional or local level, has several high heritage values and/or has good integrity.

Class C: There are a few heritage values but have been compromised.

Permitted: Minor works and maintenance, Interior structural works associated with earthquake strengthening.

Controlled: Internal heritage listing requires conservation report for interior works.

Discretionary: Alterations/additions that affect building exterior (appearance or footprint). Interior works for internal heritage buildings where no report is provided. (Restricted Discretionary for Class B items) (Permitted for Class C).

Non-compliant: Demolition or relocation, changes to exterior without a conservation plan. (Controlled for Class C).