Useful links

‘Heritage buildings are a valued feature in our community, enriching the environment while providing us with links

to our past. Areas that retain their character are popular to live in and often attract higher property values.

Older houses, as with all buildings, need to be maintained or adapted to suit our everyday needs and changes in

lifestyle. We need to be able to alter old houses so that they meet today’s standards without completely transforming

their appearance or neighbourhood character.

We have special controls in our District Plan to guide appropriate change on heritage buildings and sites. Whether

your home is protected depends upon the zoning and any special provisions that apply to your property.

If you are proposing to carry out work to your home and it is in a Residential 3 zone or if it is scheduled, it is likely

you will need to apply for resource consent as well as building consent.

Our Good Solutions Guide for Heritage Buildings is a non-statutory document that offers best practice ways of

altering heritage houses. It should be used in conjunction with our brochure Valuing our built heritage which

discusses the city's District Plan requirements and provides advice about making resource consent applications

for restoring, altering or removing heritage buildings

(Source: North Shore City Heritage consents)

North Shore City Council’s website contains lots of information useful if you are thinking

making changes to your heritage building. The links supplied here are only some of those

available on their site, but they will provide you a way in to exploring what is available.