Our built and historic heritage is totally absent from both the overview and the full draft of the refreshed Auckland Plan for the next 30 years. This has particular implications for heritage suburbs such as Remuera.
The Draft Plan only talks about environmental and cultural heritage as types of heritage, and a definition of cultural heritage includes no recognition of built heritage at all.
The first Auckland Plan, released in 2012, had an entire chapter of 14 pages on Historic Heritage, a big win for Auckland’s community groups which applied pressure during extensive feedback sessions and demanded that heritage be appropriately recognised. Now we must fight it all again.
Please alert your networks to the vital importance of making a submission on the Auckland Plan 2050. Submissions close on Wednesday, March 28th.