An invitation to Remuera Heritage from Parnell Heritage for Sunday April 30th
Anzac Day to be remembered with Parnell Heritage and Remuera Heritage
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Henry Kulka 1900-1971 (Architects of Remuera) a forerunner of New Zealand modern architecture
Henry Kulka (1900–71) is often cited as a forerunner of New Zealand modern architecture.
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Remuera Heritage Event: Plan Change 78 (housing intensification) – its impact on Remuera’s heritage and special character
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In memory of David Lennard
Remuera Heritage notes with sadness the death of Dave Lennard as a result of the floods in Auckland on the 27th and 28th January 2023, aged 78.
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Lillian Chrystall (Architects of Remuera) – A very inspiring and influential architect
Lillian Chrystall was an exceptionally gifted award-winning architect. She was accepted into the University of Auckland (UoA) School of Architecture as one of only five women and designed several houses in Remuera.
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In Memory of Ngaire Bailey (nee Keys) 1929-2023
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.
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In memory of Jeremy Salmond
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.
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Christmas at the old Post Office
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.
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Harsh Reality: Current Challenges for Historic Heritage in NZ – Two Symposia
Two upcoming symposia are looking at the current challenges for historic heritage in New Zealand.
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Christmas Party at the PO
2.00 - 400pm, Sunday 20 November 2022 at Sotheby's International Real Estate in the Old Remuera Post Office.
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Ōhinerau Mt Hobson: its creation and history
Dr Bruce Hayward, geologist and marine ecologist, gave a hugely informative and entertaining talk on the eruption and formation of Ohinerau Mt Hobson, Mt St John and the Orakei Basin, at our Auckland Heritage Festival event on 7 October 2022.
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Auckland Heritage Counts 2022 report by Auckland Council
The Heritage Counts programme started in 2018. It involves collecting statistics and research on Auckland's heritage places.
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St Paul’s Methodist Church, St Vincent Avenue, Remuera, is celebrating 100 years!
Celebrate this event with an 'At Home' on Saturday 26 November 2022 from 1pm to 4pm.
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Visit to Pourewa māra kai gardens 6th October 2022 – a must see!
Nine Remuera Heritage members braved the elements on the coldest, wettest and windiest day of the year to visit Ngāti Whātua’s Pourewa.
Read More Submission to Auckland Council on Plan Change 78 on housing intensification
Read our submission on Plan Change 78
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St Ann’s, 43 Arney Road, Remuera (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
Previously described as ‘an English country cottage on a grand scale’, St Ann’s is a notable example of the domestic work of architect, B. C. Chilwell and makes an important contribution to one of Remuera’s most prestigious streetscapes.
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Binswood, 229 Remuera Road, Remuera (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
Designed in 1927, by Roy A. Lippincott, ‘Binswood’ has important associations with a number of individuals who made significant contributions in their respective fields.
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Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022: The Queen at Ellerslie Races, Boxing Day 1953
On her first visit to New Zealand in 1953, newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, attended a Boxing Day meeting at Ellerslie racecourse.
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The Glen District of East Auckland, from 1843
At a Remuera Heritage event on 9 September 2022 Vivienne Wilson spoke about her Taylor ancestor Lieutenant General William Taylor and the houses he and his family built in Auckland.
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Auckland Heritage Festival 2022 – Ōhinerau Mt Hobson as a source of inspiration
6.30pm, Friday 7 October 2022 at Remuera Library
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Remuera Residents Association Public Meeting on Plan Change 78 on housing intensification
7.30pm, Thursday 22 September 2022 at Remuera Library.
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Planning Committee Agrees to Schedule More Notable Trees
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.
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Waitemata Harbour from Mt Hobson with Remuera Road in the foreground, 1884-1889
A new early photograph Auckland Harbour from Remuera, 1884-1889, from The British Library.
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Searching for the location of the Great Feast of Remuera – Have we found the site?
Tony Batistich, heritage geographer, has analysed various view points on the location of the Great Feast at Remuera in 1844.
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Plan change 78 from Auckland Council on Intensification
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.
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Aachen House, 39 Market Road – Sold July 2022
39 Market Road Remuera has been owned by the Dilworth Ulster Institute (Dilworth School) and the Dilworth Trust Board for 100 years
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‘Capri’, 231 Remuera Road, Remuera (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
Described as "one of the most substantially built brick houses in Auckland", the dwelling at present-day 231 Remuera Road was built in approximately 1903.
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Searching for the location of the Great Feast of Remuera
6.30pm, Friday 12 August 2022 at Remuera Library
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Invitation to a Public Meeting on Housing Intensification
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
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Ōrākei Local Board feedback on the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 and RMA amendments 2021 – Council’s preliminary response
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.
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Include Score 4 property in the Special Character Area assessments!
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).
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Character Coalition: Lobbying of Councillors and Local Board Chairs
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.
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URGENT Action Required: National Policy Statement on Urban Development and Special Character Areas
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.
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37 Bell Road, Remuera (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
The original dwelling at present-day 37 Bell Road was built sometime before 1892 reflecting the style of residence that had begun to characterise the residential suburbs of Victorian Auckland.
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Remuera Heritage Annual General Meeting, 2022
6.30pm, Friday 27 May 2022, at Remuera Library.
Read More Remuera Residents Association – Annual General Meeting 2022
7.30pm, Thursday 5 May 2022 at Remuera Library
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Have Your Say on Auckland Council’s new housing rules
Auckland Council currently has its new housing rules out for consultation with Aucklanders in a very short timeframe. Feedback is due by 9th May 2022!
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Auckland deserves better
Auckland should be properly planned to keep its special character and natural beauty. Support the Character Coalition in its defence of this.
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Horace Lovell Massey, WW1 Serviceman and Notable Architect (Architects of Remuera)
Horace Lovell Massey (1895-1978) was a notable architect who designed distinctive houses in Remuera. He designed many commercial and public buildings as well as residences in Auckland.
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31 and 33 Bell Road, Remuera (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)
Built as identical two-storey houses in c.1885 on the corners of Bell and Shera roads, the subject residences are two of Bell Road’s earliest buildings and stand as a direct link to Remuera’s early residential history.
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New housing rules: The big changes for Auckland
Auckland Council will be releasing the new housing intensification rules soon. Please give feedback to Auckland Council on their proposed changes to housing density on Have Your Say, from 19 April - 9 May 2022.
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In memoriam: Joan Thompson 1926-2022
Joan Thompson recorded an oral history with Remuera Heritage in 2018. She was the last surviving pupil of Ladies College in Remuera.
Read More The Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply) Amendment Act and its impact on housing for Remuera
Remuera Heritage submits on the impacts of reducing the Single House Zone and Special Character Area Overlay in Remuera
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Newmarket Police Station – End of an Era
The old Newmarket Police Station on the corner of Remuera and Middleton Roads is listed on Auckland Council’s Historic Heritage Schedule has closed.
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Strathcona, 35 Seaview Road, Remuera
The residence located at present-day 35 Seaview Road, known as Strathcona, was built before 1905. Although the exact date of the villa’s construction is not known, records indicate that a number of buildings had been established on the site by 1884.
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Tupuna Maunga Authority Draft Plan for 2022-23 to 2024-25 and what it means for Ōhinerau Mt Hobson
Great to see the programme for Ohinerau Mt Hobson in the Tupuna Maunga Authority plan for 2022-23 to 2024-25 and give feedback.
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Binswood, 229 Remuera Road, Remuera
This house on the side of Ohinerau Mt Hobson was originally built in 1927. It was designed by the noted American architect Roy Alstan Lippincott (1885-1969) who worked in New Zealand from 1921 to 1939.
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Submission on the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply…) Amendment Bill
This Amendment Bill was introduced on 19th October 2021 and proposes Auckland Council will be required to enable more dense housing in August 2022.
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Auckland’s Heritage Counts 2021
The latest edition of Auckland’s Heritage Counts is now out!
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Gift a Remuera Heritage book this Christmas
Special offer for members and followers this Christmas.
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Decoding Your Home
Experts from Auckland Council’s Heritage Unit, Archives, the Auckland Libraries’ Research Centre and Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga share resources to help you research your property’s history and style.
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561 Remuera Road, Remuera: Formerly Harvey Furnishings
You may have noticed the transformation underway of the building at 561 Remuera Road on the corner with Minto Road, Remuera. The shops that were Harvey Furnishings are to become a Four Square supermarket.
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Successful judicial review of 44 Ventnor Road development
Neighbours of the 13 townhouse development at 44 Ventnor Rd in Remuera were successful in the Environment Court with their judicial review of the non-notification and resource consenting process by Auckland Council.
Read More Support the Character Coalition’s Submission Against Further Intensification – ACTION REQUIRED NOW
Submissions on the surprise legislation to enable yet more intensification of Auckland close on 16 November 2021 - NEXT TUESDAY!
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The Hillary Houses of Remuera
Sir Edmund Hillary’s family had a long involvement of residing in Remuera in most of the 20th century.
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Demolition of Wilson’s Jetty
The Wilson's Jetty was removed last week by Auckland Council, against the wishes of local residents. Another example of demolition by neglect.
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Demolition of Wilson’s Jetty – Notice of Works Commencing
Demolition of Wilson's jetty will be undertaken from 4-12 October 2021.
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Muriel Lamb (Architects of Remuera)
The Lamb House at 131 Arney Road, Remuera, was built in 1947, designed by a pioneering female architect, Muriel Lamb (1911-2010). This was the first house she designed.
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Demolition of Wilson’s Jetty
Remuera Heritage has received a letter from Auckland Council. It is ironic that after years of not finding the funds to maintain Wilson's Jetty, the council can now find the funds to demolish it.
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The Backlash Against Heritage
Yes we should be worried about the backlash against heritage buildings – read the PHANZA article about the government's apparent reversal in attitude to built heritage and implications on our built environment.
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A History of 37 Upland Road, Remuera
37 Upland Road sits within a pocket of grand houses on Upland Road which were owned by noted Aucklanders. Unfortunately 37 Upland Rd is down a driveway and although it is as grand as the houses surrounding it, it is zoned Mixed Housing Suburban, and is currently under threat from a proposed development.
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In Memoriam: Bruce Culpan 1930-2021
Remuera Heritage notes with sadness the passing of Bruce Culpan, Remuera resident and pharmacist, on 24 August 2021.
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Sholto Smith (Architects of Remuera)
When Sholto Smith (1881-1936) arrived in Auckland in 1920 at the age of 39, he was already experienced in designing modern office buildings and large houses. In his Auckland practice he designed a number of significant houses in Remuera.
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Roy Keith Binney (Architects of Remuera)
Roy Keith Binney (1886-1957), architect, designed some of the most notable houses in Remuera and Parnell in the 1920s, including Guisnes Court, Bankton, Awatea, and a grand house for Amy Hellaby.
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