Civic Trust Auckland newsletter no 2 October 2019

A plan to build a $200 million high rise housing and retail block on Mission Bay’s beachfront has been refused resource consent because it would be too tall. The proposal by developers Urban Partners would have seen Mission Bay given a major facelift but would have required the demolition of...

The information below is from Auckland Council’s Spring Te Kahu heritage newsletter: A heritage funding seminar (co-presented by Auckland Council’s Heritage Unit, Heritage New Zealand and Foundation North) will be held on Thursday 14 November from 5-6pm at the Ellen Melville Centre (Betty Wark Room), High St, City Centre. Anyone...

From 5 October to 28 October Discover the generations of Aucklanders who have journeyed here by sea, air or land to create the city we share together. From Auckland’s most ancient trees to the games children played on board the earliest ships arriving here, to recognition of the courage and...

Council’s independent hearing commissioners have declined an application for the demolition of 443 Mt Eden Rd, a character building in Mt Eden Village. Sansom Corporation applied for consent to demolish two buildings on the site and construct a multi-storey building.  Civic Trust had submitted on the development and the submission...

            Civic Trust Auckland invites students of school age to photograph heritage items or activities related to this year’s Auckland Heritage Festival theme: “Journeys – the stories of how our people travelled to Tāmaki Makaurau by sea, by air or by land, to create a...

An Auckland photographer is featured on the Stuff website today, talking about his passion for photographing derelict and abandoned heritage buildings throughout New Zealand. Working in manufacturing full-time, Harley devotes as much of his free time as he can to travelling around New Zealand in search of abandoned sites to...

In the Heritage Festival, tours of the Bishop’s Palace in St Mary’s Bay are regularly sold out. The Catholic Diocesan Centre  kindly put on a tour for Civic Trust members and friends on Saturday 10 August. Our special thanks to Narelle Scollay, archivist at the Pompalier Diocesan Centre, and her...

The proposed demolition of one of Auckland’s earliest and grandest homes is proof the council has failed to preserve heritage, say protection groups. The meticulously preserved 1905 homestead at 9 Springcombe Rd in St Heliers was one of the original homes in the area but it could be bulldozed it...

The historic Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel is being sold after its foreign owners failed to undertake a promised redevelopment. The hotel, one of New Zealand’s oldest, opened its doors in 1889. Situated near Tirau in the Waikato, it can sleep 60 guests and has a nine-hole golf course. See the...