Remuera Heritage notes with sadness the passing of Ngaire Bailey in January 2023, aged 93. Ngaire was a member of Remuera Heritage and the granddaughter of Leonard John Keys, the first store owner in Remuera.

Remuera Heritage wishes to acknowledge the huge contribution to heritage architecture, restoration and preservation. He was particularly helpful last year in assisting Remuera residents to identify the special character and heritage features of their properties in response to Council’s Plan Change 78 re housing intensification. He has left a huge legacy for New Zealand heritage.

It was wet and windy for our Christmas party but thanks to the hospitality of Sotheby’s Remuera, we were warmly hosted inside the old Remuera Post Office, the historic landmark building in Remuera. There was a guest piper to brighten the day, 21-year-old Finlay John Cameron who is here from Lochaber, Scotland.

Two upcoming symposia are looking at the current challenges for historic heritage in New Zealand.

2.00 - 400pm, Sunday 20 November 2022 at Sotheby's International Real Estate in the Old Remuera Post Office.

The Heritage Counts programme started in 2018. It involves collecting statistics and research on Auckland's heritage places.

Celebrate this event with an 'At Home' on Saturday 26 November 2022 from 1pm to 4pm.

Nine Remuera Heritage members braved the elements on the coldest, wettest and windiest day of the year to visit Ngāti Whātua’s Pourewa.

Read our submission on Plan Change 78

6.30pm, Friday 7 October 2022 at Remuera Library

7.30pm, Thursday 22 September 2022 at Remuera Library.

The Tree Council welcomes the recent Auckland Council Planning Committee’s decision to put forward additional trees to be added to Schedule 10 (Notable Trees) in the upcoming notification of the August 2022 Unitary Plan change.

A new early photograph Auckland Harbour from Remuera, 1884-1889, from The British Library.

Tony Batistich, heritage geographer, has analysed various view points on the location of the Great Feast at Remuera in 1844.

The most important recent is Plan Change 78 on Intensification. Please go to the maps and check if your and your neighbours’ properties are affected by intensification.

6.30 pm, Friday 9th September 2022 at Remuera Library

6.30pm, Friday 12 August 2022 at Remuera Library

This is the largest public event to date about the government's new housing legislation, to give voice to your opposition to the intensification legislation due to come into effect 20th August 2022

Orakei Local Board agrees with the advice of the Heritage Advisory Panel dated 6th June 2022 (copied - Appendix A) and Council’s Feedback Report analysing public views on Special Character Areas, which support retaining these areas.

Include Score 4 property in the Special Character Area assessments! The public feedback very clearly supported retaining Special Character Areas and supporting the creation of more Special Character Areas (SCAs).

Now is the time for Aucklanders to express their concerns for the future of Auckland and its Special Character Area’s (SCA's). Character Coalition believes a significant vote on the future status of SCA's will be made by Councillors at a meeting on 30 June.

We are challenging Council’s approach and looking at alternative ways of optimising qualifying matter opportunities under the centrally driven housing enabling regime. We need your help too.

Chair's Annual Report to 31 March 2022.

6.30pm, Friday 27 May 2022, at Remuera Library.