
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.
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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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