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Heritage Management Guidelines for Resource Management Practitioners

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Resource Management Guidelines

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The NZHPT has prepared these guidelines on sustainable management of historic heritage to promote understanding of historic heritage and to assist local authorities, owners and developers to identify and manage historic heritage in light of the Resource Management Act (1991) and its 2003 Amendment.

The guidelines also provide information on the legal obligations associated with archaeological sites under the Historic Places Act.

They are intended particularly for people practising in the resource management field, but may also be useful for developers, property managers and others who work with heritage properties.

Use them as

  • a source of information
  • guidance when preparing plans and policies that address historic heritage
  • a checklist when processing resource consents that have effects on historic heritage, including those that may affect archaeological sites.

The NZHPT hopes to update these guidelines as thinking and professional practice advances, as plans and policies are implemented and monitored, and as case law develops.

Acknowledgments

Prepared by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust with the assistance of Karen Greig, Archaeologist arczoo Ltd, Wellington; Greg Vossler, GMV Heritage Management Ltd, Palmerston North; and Boffa Miskell Wellington; with funding from the Ministry for the Environment's Sustainable Management Fund.

© NZ Historic Places Trust 2004.

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