Templates for submissions on Plan Change 120 on housing intensification
Auckland Council has now publicly notified Plan Change 120. You can see the proposal, and the maps showing the proposed new zonings, on the Council website.
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Next Thursday there will be a presentation about Auckland Council’s intensification plan change 120
Next Thursday, 20th November, 6pm–7.30pm, at Remuera Library there will be a presentation about Auckland Council’s intensification plan change (Plan Change 120), and an opportunity to ask questions about the process and how to make submissions.
Read More39 Manawa Road (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
First built around 1860, the multi-gabled cottage at 39 Manawa Road is one of only a small number of mid-nineteenth century dwellings surviving in Remuera. Although extended over time, the place is a tangible reminder of the suburb’s early settlement, social history, and way of life. It even has links with one of Remuera’s earliest schools.
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2025 Christmas Party time – save the date!
Let's celebrate another great year for Remuera Heritage with a Xmas BBQ
Read More‘Orakei Bay Village’, 228 Orakei Road
Located between the Orakei Basin and Hobson Bay, ‘Orakei Bay Village’ occupies a mid-century building with an interesting history. Purpose-built as a factory for manufacturing and distributing radios in 1954, the building subsequently had a decades-long association with New Zealand’s liquour industry. Now a popular boutique shopping precinct, the substantial concrete, steel, and glazed structure still retains evidence of its industrial past.
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Remuera’s Hungarian restaurant – Café de Budapest
Underneath Hutchison’s Arcade on Remuera Road, at number 351, was a Hungarian restaurant, Café de Budapest.
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Always a tram in sight!
James is the Tramway Project Manager at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), as well as a volunteer tram driver. His talk covered the growth of trams in Auckland and their decline in the 1950s due to competition from buses.
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Railway Enthusiasts visit the Remuera Railway Station
Remuera Heritage welcomed the Railway Enthusiasts' Society to the Remuera Railway Station during the Auckland Heritage Festival 2025.
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5 Pere Street has won a NZ Master Painters award for a character house
5 Pere Street has won a NZ Master Painters award for the exterior painting of a character house by master painter PBF Ltd.
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Auckland intensification plan gets a reprieve
Auckland Council granted concession by Chris Bishop on housing intensification plans
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Public meetings about proposed zoning changes in Remuera September 2025
There are three important public meetings in Remuera and St Heliers next week about the proposed upzoning, downzoning and removal of special character area overlays in Remuera.
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AUCKLAND’S HOUSING PLAN NEEDS A REALITY CHECK
Opinion piece by Councillor Christine Fletcher and Troy Churton, Orakei Local Board member, on Auckland Council's Replacement Plan Change for Plan Change 78
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Painter of Paradise
Martin Law spoke about his heritage restoration work and paintings of heritage villas and buildings.
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Plan Change 78 on housing intensification – update
The Hon. Chris Bishop has published the “Going for Housing Growth Proposal: Providing for Urban Development in the New Resource Management System” as a discussion paper in June 2025. How will this affect Remuera? Submissions are required by 17 August 2025.
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Remuera Sports Quiz at the Auckland Heritage Festival 2025
The theme this year for the Auckland Heritage Festival is Auckland at Play: a celebration of sport and play! In 2011, Remuera Heritage presented a quiz on key Remuera sportspeople. Now we've updated and expanded it!
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Always a Tram in Sight!
James Duncan, Tramway Project Manager at MOTAT, will tell the story behind Auckland’s much loved electric trams. Friday 17th October.
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Johnnie’s Dancing School
Johnnie’s Dancing School, also known as Johnny’s, was a Remuera social institution from the 1920s through to the 1950s.
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Martin Law – Painter of Paradise and Heritage Restoration
Come and hear Martin Law speak about his heritage restoration work and paintings of heritage villas and buildings.
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Greener pastures at the Remuera Bowling Club
The Remuera Bowling Club (RBC), was formed in 1895, and the land purchased for the club in the same year.
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Remuera women who signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1893
In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in national elections. Approx. 70 Remuera women signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition.
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The Remuera Story
The Remuera Story is a StoryMap created using a digital online application to tell the story of our heritage and history.
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