07-05-2024, 07:22 PM
(07-04-2024, 06:34 PM)bravado Wrote: I personally find it a bit grotesque to use the power of the public government to protect buildings and property that the public can't use. The expansion of Heritage™ as yet another exclusionary consultant specialty has frozen so much of our cities in time and protected the incumbent landowners at the expense of anything new. It's a horrible project with a name that nobody could be publicly against and is an awful, awful thing for cities that are supposed to be fluid, growing, and not stagnant.
Wellington tried to delist a bunch of heritage landmarks in its new plan but got turned down for technical reasons. They're probably going to get delisted following the proper procedure though.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-02-2...y-oil-tank
Quote:Wellington’s independent hearing panel this week recommended a former British Imperial Oil storage tank in Miramar should receive heritage protection in the District Plan. Wellington city council’s heritage evaluators found the tank had value as “an increasingly rare representative example of bulk storage tanks erected nationally in the 1920s”.
The tank is on land owned by Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh, and they are not happy about the heritage listing. They bought the land to build film infrastructure, and rusty oil tanks are not very useful in the movie business. Two of their companies, Wētā FX and Wingnut Films, made submissions asking the panel to reject heritage protections.