Historic heritage provides links to historic events and people. It also provides attractive open spaces and points of interest for local, national, and international visitors. Historic heritage includes places and things that contribute to an understanding and appreciation of New Zealand’s history and cultures. It typically includes historic sites and buildings, archaeological sites, and sites and areas of significance to Māori.

The protection of historic heritage from inappropriate subdivision, use, and development is a matter of national importance under the Resource Management Act 1991.

National Planning Standards require Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori to be separately addressed to Historic heritage. Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori are being managed under the Places of Significance to Māori workstream of the Tasman Environment Plan review.

For this round of engagement, we are seeking your views and nominations of European historic heritage in the district.

Did you know?

• Heritage buildings are currently classified into two categories in the Tasman Resource Management Plan (TRMP). Category 1 have a greater level of heritage value and significance than Category 2.
• Historic heritage values are defined in the Resource Management Act 1991 to include those natural and physical resources that contribute to an understanding and appreciation of New Zealand’s history and cultures, deriving from any of the following qualities: archaeological, architectural, cultural, historic, scientific, and technological. This includes historic sites and areas, archaeological sites, and sites of significance to Māori.
• There are approximately 25 heritage buildings that are potentially earthquake-prone according to Council building records as of February 2021.
• Our GIS data indicates approximately 140 sites and 15 buildings are located in areas that have been subject to historic flood events.
• There are approximately 127 buildings and 250 European cultural heritage sites listed in the Tasman Resource Management Plan and over 60 buildings and sites have been nominated for listing following preliminary engagement.
• The National Planning Standards 2019 requires Councils to make information like heritage assessments more publicly accessible by 2024.
• Based on our GIS data and the New Zealand Archaeological Association’s ArchSite records, there are 350 archaeological sites within Tasman and Golden Bays that are vulnerable to a 1% AEP coastal storm-tide and 2.0m sea level rise scenario.
• Council provides annual funding of $5,000 for landowners to maintain heritage buildings. Heritage sites are not currently eligible for this funding.

Motueka

• Saltwater Baths
• Rudolph Steiner School / Phyllis Moffat Hospital
• Bottom end of Pearse Valley – lime and marble works
• Grooby farm – Underground tunnel
• Hop kilns and graveyard themes
• Trig station on Brown Acre
• Consider upgrading Motueka Museum to Category 1 as similar to Tākaka BNZ

Tākaka

• Pōhara Band Rotunda
• Golden Bay Grandstand
• Tākaka Tramway (see Waitapu to Waitui – A Journey up the Tākaka Valley – Carol Dauber)
• Waitapu Embankment (reference 5129 in listings is not comprehensive – see description next to Arts Council building next to Delish)
• Old fire station in town, 24 Commercial Street
• Labyrinth Rocks
• Golden Bay Theatre (Wholemeal Café)
• Central Tākaka School, 44 Central Tākaka Road
• Anglican Church, 42 Commercial Street – intact interior
• Haase’s Shop, 27A Commercial Street – vacant due to fire
• Bike shop, 11 Commercial Street
• Gooch House by Church, 95 Commercial Street
• Pōhara Motor Camp gun turret
• Presbyterian Church, corner of Commercial Street and Waitapu Road
• Lime kiln site, 97 Fraser Road
• Futuro House, 60 Selwyn Street
• Catholic Church 94 Commercial Street – currently listed
• Old Courthouse in Motupipi Street
• St Baden’s Church in Motupipi Street
• Onekaha iron works
• Onekaka iron works
• Masonic Lodge behind Top Shop
• Explore military installations as an additional theme
• Agricultural building theme including hop kilns and historic milking sheds
• Pupu Hydro Complex

Collingwood

• Collingwood heritage area centred around the former courthouse, St Cuthbert’s Church, and WW1 Memorial but needs further research
• Oxnam Stock Routes Mt Newton and Kerr’s clearing
• Old bakery on main road where first fire – hairdresser
• Lightghouses – Farewell Spit, Kahurangi, Philip Point
• Old mining houses at Puponga
• Puponga Coal mines
• Bainham Store (listing 5110 p16/7) should go from Category 2 to Category 1
• Radar Station – Pillar Point at Farewell Spit in the Puponga Farm Park

Murchison

• Stock access around Mole Saddle
• Ransom Engine
• Stock route from Rappanhannock Saddle to Mt Cann
• Six Mile Creek historic hydro-electric installation
• Horse Terrace Bridge, Brooks Road
• Site of Mammoth Hotel
• Site of Coal Creek Coalmine – Kawatiri-Murchison
• Gowan Bridge – Dizzy’s Store – Gowan Valley Road
• Railway construction remains – Kawatiri-Murchison
• Site of historic Bulmer township
• Track to Thousand Acres
• Poor Pete’s Hut
• Black Valley

Other areas

• Kawatiri Truss Bridge
• Wakefield – post office, farms etc
• Earnest Rutherford memorial
• Māori cultural heritage along the coast
• Moutere Village
• Peninsula Bridge – Motueka Valley
• Downies Hut – Nelson Lakes, Maruia
• Owen Junction
• Lake Caslani picnic area – Shenandoah
• De Havilland Dragon crash site – Mount Hope
• Review great taste cycleway route as typically historical railway