Heritage Inventory - Introduction
The Heritage List contains basic information on each place that has official heritage status with Wellington City Council. To be included a place must have significant historic, architectural, technical or social value, or be significant to tangata whenua and other Maori.
Each entry in the Heritage List contains the following:
- name of the place at the time of listing
- date
- street address
- map reference number.
The list is updated from time to time as more places are identified as having value. In response to initiatives in the Built Heritage Policy, Council staff are currently in the process of identifying new residential and commercial heritage items to add to the Heritage List.
If you are interested in having a place added to the Heritage List, contact the Council. Listing a place requires research and assessment of the heritage values of the place, as well as a full public notification process.
The list is contained in the District Plan under 'Schedule of Heritage Areas, Buildings, Objects, Trees and Maori Sites.'
District Plan - Heritage Chapters
Heritage Building Inventory
You can find more detailed information about non-residential heritage buildings and precincts in the Wellington Heritage Building Inventory 2001.
The inventory includes some buildings that are not currently on the Heritage List in the District Plan, but may be in the future.
Each entry contains the following:
- photo
- brief history
- physical description
- explanation of the heritage values for that entry.
A hard copy of the inventory is available at the public libraries, service centres and at the Council Offices at 101 Wakefield Street.
There is also a Maori Sites Inventory – Nga Waahi Taonga O Te Whanganui a Tara, which is available at the Council Offices.
Additional information about the buildings may be available through the Wellington City Archives as well as public libraries and the National Library.
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