The Sustainable Management of Historic
Heritage guidance series is available on CD for $10 each.
To order a copy of the CD, please contact
NZHPT's National Office on 0800 HERITAGE (0800 437 482),
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Sustainable Management of Historic Heritage Guidance Series
The Sustainable Management
of Historic Heritage guidance series aims to assist local authorities, owners
of heritage places, iwi and hapu, and other stakeholders in the protection and
conservation of historic heritage under the Resource Management Act 1991
(RMA) and other related resource management and planning legislation.
The
term 'sustainable management' is adopted to encompass the concept of sustainability
or the responsibility to maintain and care for the natural and physical environment.
Historic heritage should be managed in a sustainable manner to meet the needs
of present and future generations and to avoid adverse effects on the environment.
Sustainable management may include promoting adaptive uses of heritage places.
In
2004, the NZHPT published Heritage Management
Guidelines for Resource Management Practitioners. This guideline provided
general information on the legislative framework, and a management framework for
heritage management under the RMA including resource consent applications, archaeological
sites, non-regulatory methods, and management of heritage places of significance
to Maori.
The Sustainable Management of Historic Heritage guidance
series should also be accompanied by the NZHPT's 2004 Heritage
Management Guidelines for Resource Management Practitioners. Both documents
replace the original Cultural Heritage Planning Manual circulated to local authorities
by NZHPT in 1992.
The Guidelines
The guidelines provide non-statutory
direction on historic heritage issues and legislation, particularly the RMA, Building
Act 2004, and the Overseas Investment Act 2005. They outline the 'position'
of the NZHPT on a particular issue at the time of writing. A key aspect of the
guidelines is best practice or model heritage provisions for RMA regional policy
statements, regional plans and district plans. The guidance highlights the important
role of these policy statements and plans in managing historic heritage in New
Zealand.
It is emphasised that the guidelines are not 'cast in stone'
and the NZHPT welcomes feedback and dialogue on the guidelines. They will be reviewed
on a regular basis to ensure the guidance remains up-to-date and relevant. Currently,
the guidelines cover the following topics (downloadable here as pdfs):
The discussion papers are starting points for the development of
best practice guidance. The discussion paper status recognises that further development
and research is required and the issues involved are complex. With further research
and consultation, the NZHPT may be able to shift some of the discussion paper
topics to guideline status in the future. As with the guidelines, the NZHPT welcomes
feedback and dialogue on the discussion papers. Currently the discussion papers
cover the following topics (downloadable pdfs):
The
information sheets contain easy-to-access key information for the sustainable
management of historic heritage. The information sheets cover topics of historic
heritage principles, heritage identification criteria, RMA regional and district
plan heritage schedules, model heritage rules for RMA regional and district plans,
and assessing the impacts on historic heritage. Further information can be obtained
from consulting the Sustainable Management of Historic Heritage guidelines
and discussion papers. Currently, the information sheets cover the following topics
(downloadable pdfs):
This guidance
series does not yet cover all the major issues relating to historic heritage.
For example, the series does not include non-regulatory incentives and methods
such as education, financial incentives, and provision of technical advice and
training of Council officers. Information about non-regulatory incentives is available
from the Ministry for the Environment's Quality Planning website and the NZHPT's
2004 Heritage Management Guidelines for Resource
Management Practitioners.
The NZHPT also provides local authorities
with information about the NZHPT Register,
heritage orders and heritage covenants
in the NZHPT Annual Information folder. Please contact the Registrar, NZHPT, for
further information about the NZHPT Annual Information.
Feedback &
Comments
The NZHPT welcomes any feedback and comment on the Sustainable
Management of Historic Heritage guidance series. Comments may be provided
to information@historic.org.nz
(attention: Sustainable Heritage Guidance)
Acknowledgements
The Sustainable Management
of Historic Heritage guidance series has been prepared with the contribution
of many persons and organisations.
The NZHPT wishes to acknowledge its
own staff (and former staff) for providing input and assistance, especially: Aidan
Challis, Doug Bray, Megan Patrick, Robin Byron, Rebecca Harfield, Alison Dangerfield,
Laura Paytner, Jo Bain, Jo Easterbrook, Dave Margetts, Guy Williams, Dave Robson
and Dean Whiting.
Externally, the NZHPT wishes to acknowledge and thank
the following:
Heritage Victoria (Australia), the NSW Heritage
Office (Australia), and English Heritage (United Kingdom) for use and adaptation
of various guidance material and information.
Victoria University
of Wellington, Museum and Heritage Studies Programme (Dr Conal McCarthy, Paulette
Wallace, Gareth Phipps, Lore McMaster).
Chris Cochran, Conservation
Architect, Michael Kelly, Heritage Consultant, and Karen Greig, Consultant Archaeologist
(InSitu Heritage Ltd).
The Ministry for the Environment (Richard
Hills, Greg Vossler and Craig Mallet) for their review and input into guides No.1-3
and discussion paper No.2.
The Department of Building and Housing
(John Kay, David Hopkins, Iona Cameron and Mike Stannard) for their review and
input into guides No. 6 and 9.
Overseas Investment Office, Land
Information NZ (Annelies McClure) for review and input into Guide No. 8.
Department
of Historic Preservation, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
USA (Anita Franchetti).
Department of Conservation (Paul Mahoney).
Local
Government New Zealand (Irene Clarke and Susan Edwards).
The
Ministry for Culture and Heritage (Peter Richardson and Jim McKenzie).
The
Property Council of New Zealand (Connal Townsend).
Insurance
Council of New Zealand (John Lucas).
Federated Farmers of New
Zealand (Bruce McNab and Julie Ireland).
NZ Institute of Landscape
Architects, Cultural Heritage Landscape Working Group (particularly for input
into Discussion Paper No.3. Contact Brad Coombs).
IPENZ National
Engineering Heritage Committee (Contact: Shelley Pope).
Auckland
Regional Council (Ian Lawlor and Robert Brassey)
Greater Wellington
Regional Council (John Holmes, Tami Woods and Piotr Swierczynski)
Environment Bay of Plenty (Sue Mavor)
Environment Southland (Ken
Swinney and Aaron Leith)
Marlborough District Council (Ian Shapcott)
New
Plymouth District Council (Lauren O'Byrne)
Selwyn District Council
(Julia Forsyth)
Dr Janet Stephenson (University of Otago)
While
the NZHPT acknowledges the contribution of other agencies and organisations, the
opinions and views expressed in the guidance series are those of the NZHPT only.
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