New futures for heritage buildings

Presenter: Dave Margetts B’Arch

Heritage Advisor, architecture and conservation

Working with owners and Councils

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Behind the scenes

• Resource consent assessments & comment.

• Receiving funding applications incl Lotteries.

------------- • Pre-app discussions.• Site visits• Meetings with owners,

council staff, consultants.

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Conservation principlesAnd ICOMOS NZ

• Don’t knock it down!• Consider all options for

retention.• Reversibility.• Least removal of heritage

fabric.• Appropriate alterations &

additions.• Compatible use.• Buildings are not museum

pieces.

Rangiora Town Hall redevelopment

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Adaptive re-use• Adaptive re-use gives new

life to a site, rather than seeking to freeze it at a particular moment in time, it explores the options that lie between the extremes of demolition or turning a site into a museum. Adding a new layer without erasing earlier layers, an adaptive re-use project becomes part of the long history of the site. It is another stage, not the final outcome.BNZ Kaiapoi

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Learnings for councils & owners

• Critical to the success of finding new uses is finding a viable economic uses that can support initial refurbishment, provide the owner or developer with a reasonable return on their investment.

• Early consultation by owners with the local authority and Heritage New Zealand will assist in reaching agreement on suitable uses and help avoid issues arising later.

• A fund raising strategy should be an integral part of any scheme.

• Work to listed buildings can be more complex than for a new building and so the right kinds of consultants and contractors should be employed.

Even when vacant and in poor condition, listed buildings remain ‘assets’ with the ability to enrich our experience of our environment through their physical qualities and their historic or community associations.

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Tools

• Conservation plan.• Heritage impact

assessment.• Concept plan &

estimate.• DSA x 2• Funding application(s).• Heritage architects.

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Historic area example

New Regent Street

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Repair and maintenance on a Waimate street

Appropriate addition & adaptive reuseHunter Street campus – formerly Trades Hall

Adaptive reuseEarp Gillam bond store

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Funding & Heritage incentives

• Heritage New Zealand National Heritage Preservation Incentive Fund.

• Lotteries.• Council heritage funds.• Other community funds.• Regulatory and non-regulatory

incentives.• http://

www.heritage.org.nz/protecting-heritage/funding-for-heritage-protection

Esk Head (Cat 1)

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Landing Services building Timaru (Cat 1)Adaptive reuse

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Timaru Courthouse (Cat 1)Appropriate addition

Rangiora Courthouse (Cat 2)What is its new future?

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