Policy 17: Historic heritage identification and protection

Protect historic heritage⁹ in the coastal environment from inappropriate subdivision, use, and development by:

1. identification, assessment and recording of historic heritage, including archaeological sites;
2. providing for the integrated management of such sites in collaboration with relevant councils, heritage agencies, iwi authorities and kaitiaki;
3. initiating assessment and management of historic heritage in the context of historic landscapes;
4. recognising that heritage to be protected may need conservation;
5. facilitating and integrating management of historic heritage that spans the line of mean high water springs;
6. including policies, rules and other methods relating to (a) to (e) above in regional policy statements, and plans;
7. imposing or reviewing conditions on resource consents and designations, including for the continuation of activities;
8. requiring, where practicable, conservation conditions; and
9. considering provision for methods that would enhance owners’ opportunities for conservation of listed heritage structures, such as relief grants or rates relief.

⁹Refer to definition in section 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991.