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The listed city

The plan’s own heritage schedule, 709 places the district plan protects by name, drawn with their settings across 574 hectares, and 9 whole streets it schedules as heritage areas. Two lists watch the same buildings: Heritage New Zealand’s register carries 295 of them; the plan’s schedule is the bigger net, holding 414 more the city protects alone.

Scheduled items
709
On the national register
295
Heritage NZ listed
The city’s own
414
scheduled, not listed
Interiors scheduled
53
rooms protected too
Heritage areas
9
whole streets protected

The schedule, drawn

Abberley Park · St AlbansElmwood Park · MerivaleCobblestone Gutters and Setting · LytteltonGodley HeadLinwood Cemetery · 25 Butterfield AvenueStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiStreets with trees and plaques · PapanuiSydenham Cemetery · 34 Roker StreetCranmer Square and SettingFormer Ilam Gardens · IlamBarbadoes Street Cemetery and SettingAddington Cemetery and Setting · AddingtonPoplars, Lamp Standards and SettingPoplars, Lamp Standards and SettingMona Vale Grounds · FendaltonFormer Halswell Quarry · HalswellLyttelton Railway Tunnel, Lyttelton and Heathcote Tunnel Portals and Setting · Heathcote/Bridle Path · Heathcote/LytteltonRiccarton Grounds · FendaltonHagley Park · Hagley ParkHagley Park · Hagley ParkHagley Park · Hagley ParkRiccarton Bush · FendaltonChester Street East / Dawson Street: heritage areaChurch Property Trustees North St Albans Subdivision (1923): heritage areaEnglefield Avonville: heritage areaInner City West: heritage areaLyttelton: heritage areaRNZAF Station Wigram Staff Housing: heritage areaRNZAF Station Wigram Staff Housing: heritage areaWayside Avenue ’Parade of Homes’: heritage areaAddingtonAidanfieldAkaroaAranuiAvondaleAvonheadAvonsideBeckenhamBelfastBexleyBishopdaleBottle LakeBromleyBrooklandsBroomfieldBryndwrBurnsideBurwoodCasebrookCashmereCass BayChristchurch AirportChristchurch Central CityCliftonCorsair BayCoutts IslandCracroftDallingtonDiamond HarbourDuvauchelleEdgewareFendaltonFerrymeadGovernors BayHalswellHarewoodHeathcote ValleyHei HeiHillmortonHillsboroughHoon HayHornbyHornby SouthHuntsburyIlamIslingtonKaingaKennedys BushLe Bons BayLinwoodLittle RiverLytteltonMairehauMarshlandMcLeans IslandMerivaleMiddletonMoncks BayMount PleasantNew BrightonNorth New BrightonNorthcoteNorthwoodOkains BayOpawaOuruhiaPAPANUIParklandsPhillipstownPigeon BayPort LevyPrebbletonRedcliffsRedwoodRiccartonRichmondRichmond HillRollestonRussleySaint AlbansSaint MartinsScarboroughShirleySockburnSomerfieldSouth New BrightonSouthshoreSpencervilleSpreydonStrowanSumnerSydenhamTai Tapute-onepoto-taylors-mistakeTempletonUpper RiccartonWaimairi BeachWainoniWainuiWalthamWestmorlandWigramWoolstonYaldhurst

Every scheduled item’s setting, filled by the plan’s own grade: highly significant dark, significant light, the listed streets outlined. Hover any patch for the item it keeps. The same ground appears in the plan’s exceptions at /matters, the schedule is the reason the rule yields there.

The two lists

The national register’s grade where a place is on it, and the city’s own list, which protects 414 places the register never reached.

The city’s own list 414
Category 2 213
Category 1 72
Historic Area 10

The first grade

Every Category 1 place, the national register’s top grade, held inside the plan’s schedule. Alphabetically.

The listed streets

A heritage area protects the street itself, not its houses one by one, the plan schedules 9 of them whole, and the consent question follows every section inside the line.

Where the listed city stands

The suburbs by scheduled items: Akaroa and Lyttelton ahead of the villa belt, the harbour towns the earthquake spared and the flat streets it didn’t.

Questions, answered briefly

What is the heritage schedule?

The plan’s own list, 709 places the district plan protects by name, drawn with their settings across 574 hectares. Every one carries the plan’s grading: Highly Significant or Significant, and the consent rules that follow the grade.

Is the schedule the same as the national register?

No, two lists watch the same buildings. Heritage New Zealand’s register carries 295 of these places; the plan’s schedule is the bigger net, holding 414 more that the city protects alone. A place can sit on either, or both.

What does scheduling actually do?

It makes demolition a question, not a right. Altering or removing a scheduled item needs a consent the unlisted neighbour does not, and the setting travels with the item, so the ground around it is drawn too. That is why the schedule shows up in the plan’s qualifying matters: the rule yields where the item stands.

Are the insides protected too?

53 of them, where the schedule says "scheduled interior", the rooms themselves carry the grade: the staircase, the plaster, the joinery. The rest are protected from the skin outward.

Are whole streets protected too?

9 of them, the heritage areas, where the plan protects the street itself rather than naming each house: the Californian bungalow subdivisions, the 1957 Parade of Homes, the Wigram officers' quarters, Lyttelton’s centre. Inside the line the consent question follows every section, listed house or not.

Which are the most protected?

The 72 Category 1 places on the national register, the grade reserved for places of special or outstanding value. The whole roll is below, graded the plan’s way first, and each suburb’s share reads on its page.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the DistrictPlanB service’s DPHeritageItem layer, the operative plan’s heritage schedule, with its heritage areas and the heritage order from the same service. The schedule grades every item Highly Significant or Significant; the Heritage NZ category appears only where the place is also on the national register. A setting is the ground the item stands in, not a statement that every building inside it is heritage fabric. The register’s own places keep their pages at /places, the planning mechanism these items trigger is at /matters, and a point’s own schedule entry is at /before.

This page as markdown: /heritage.md · the record as data: /heritage.json · /heritage.geojson · the national register on the live map: /map?layer=heritage.