Skip to main content

Saving the Town Heritage Toolkit

“Saving the Town highlights successful experiences and case studies from around Aotearoa New Zealand that illustrate proactive, contemporary approaches to heritage.

 

It focusses on how to facilitate and encourage heritage retention, preservation and reuse in areas, towns and cities of all sizes.” (web page)

 

“The importance of older buildings as homes for the arts, cultural, creative, start-up and not-for-profit sectors and social/community groups and activities should not be underestimated. Nor should their potential for reduced business diversity, community services and cultural activities resulting from their demolition.” (p.6)

 

“The purpose of this Saving the Town toolkit is to provide councils and community stakeholders with ideas for, suggestions on and information about a range of strategies, programmes and practical initiatives that can be used to take a proactive approach to facilitating and encouraging heritage retention, preservation and reuse… the toolkit aims to encourage councils and stakeholders to experiment with new ideas and approaches to heritage preservation and reuse in their towns, given the positive outcomes that taking a new approach to challenges can have.

 

Achieving some good early adaptive reuses of key buildings not only builds momentum and morale, but is important because it helps to unlock further reuse options and investment opportunities in surrounding buildings for owners, developers and councils.” (p.8)