Just when a crumbling bluestone foundation, ordered saved from demolition during the building of a new car park beside Dunedin's Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, will be restored and preserved is a mystery.
A drawn-out dispute over the future of a group of Princes St, Dunedin, buildings may take longer to resolve as a result of the Christchurch earthquake.
Heritage advocates have launched a last-ditch effort to save a group of Princes St, Dunedin, buildings at the centre of a drawn-out dispute.
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There was a passionate call for Dunedin city councillors to do more to protect the city's heritage buildings during yesterday's annual plan hearing.
A petition protesting the demolition of a group of historic Princes St buildings made it to the Dunedin City Council yesterday, but appears set to go no further.
"Good news, bad news" was the tone of Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust chairman Phil Hope's annual report to members recently.
The Historic Places Trust is considering category 1 registration for the country's second-oldest surviving farm building, at Goodwood, north of Dunedin.
Protection is wanted for all of the Oamaru harbour, not just some sites in the area which the Waitaki District Council is looking at listing as heritage items under its district plan.
Scenic Hotel Group executive chairman Earl Hagaman has condemned the Historic Places Trust over the way it dealt with his company's demolition of old buildings in High St earlier this year to make way for a car park.
