Updates on the proposed Heritage Plan Change (PC13).

19 June 2025 update

Submitters have been heard, and the Commissioners expect to issue a decision in August 2025.

The recordings of the hearing are available on YouTube(external link). Use the timestamps in the description box below each video to find specific parts of the hearing.

Minute 5 of the Hearing Panel – Panel requests, considerations, and response to matters arising from the hearing [PDF, 33 KB]

16 June 2025

The hearing location has changed to the Camellia Room on floor 2 of Te Hononga Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch. To access the Camellia Room, go to the top of the second escalator, turn left and cross the footbridge.

13 June 2025

6 June 2025

Further submissions (now closed)

Further submissions were invited between 31 March 2025 and 11 April 2025, for additional submission points for Plan Change 13.

These additional submissions were not notified in 2023 because of the way plan changes 13 and 14 were originally interlinked, and there was one submission that was accidentally left out of the summary, so these were all renotified.

The further submissions page is available to view here, including submitters’ contact details: submission webpage(external link).

The following persons could make a further submission on the proposal: 

  • Any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest. 
  • Any person who has an interest in the proposed plan greater than the interest that the general public has.
  • The local authority, Christchurch City Council.

5 June 2025 update

30 May 2025 update

Copies of submissions for all heritage points being heard in PC 13 have been added to this page. 

28 May 2025 update

The S42A reports and evidence have now been added to this page. See the S42A reports and evidence(external link).

23 May 2025 update

Minute 1 of the Hearing Panel:

  1. To record our decision in respect of a request for waiver of time to file a further submission on the plan change made on behalf of Canterbury Rugby Football Union (CRFU).
  2.  To set dates in respect of the receipt and circulation of key documents in advance of the hearing.
  3. To outline our expectations of how evidence is to be presented to the hearing and inform of our initial intentions regarding site visits.

Minute 1 to 23 May 2025 [PDF, 32 KB]

Application for waiver of time [PDF, 182 KB]

CRFU Further Submission on PC13 amended - 14 March 2025 [PDF, 193 KB]

6 May 2025 update

The hearing dates for Plan Change 13 have now been set and will be 17 to 19 June 2025.  The hearing will be held in Meeting Room 01 on the ground floor of the Civic building, starting at 9.30 am each day.  At this stage, we estimate that the hearing will only take the first two days, with 19 June being a reserve day.

Submitters and further submitters:  We will contact you directly in the very near future, asking if you wish to present evidence at the hearing, and seeking an indication of how much time you think you will need. This will help to plan the hearing in more detail.  In your response, you can change your mind about presenting at the hearing or not, compared to what you put on your submission form.

Your attention is also drawn to three new subsections at the bottom of this page:

  • The updated remaining provisions for PC13 can be found under the subtitle “Updated provisions”.
  • Tables of “Submission points dealt with in PC14 or withdrawn” can also be found at the bottom of this page. These show submission points which will not be considered in the PC13 hearing.
  • Tables of  “Remaining heritage submission points for the PC 13 hearing” can also be found at the bottom of this page. These show submission points which will be considered in the PC13 hearing.  

Please note that the 'Other information' section below has also been updated. This section notes that there was a Council decision on 16 April 2025 to exclude 78 properties from the Lyttelton RHA. Council has written to the owners of these properties to inform them directly of this, with a list and map of the properties concerned.

16 April 2025 update

A report to Council on 16 April 2025 resulted in a decision to exclude 78 properties from the Lyttelton RHA. View a list of the properties [PDF, 580 KB] as well as a map [PDF, 3.3 MB]. The report to the Council can be viewed online(external link), as well as the minutes(external link).

The Minister for the Environment has granted the Christchurch City Council an extension of time under Schedule 1, Clause 10A of the Resource Management Act 1991 dated 7 April 2025, to issue a decision on Plan Change 13 to the Christchurch District Plan. This decision must now be made by 17 September 2025.

11 December 2024 update

Christchurch City Council decided on 11 December 2024 to withdraw part of Plan Change 13, to clarify and narrow its scope ahead of a hearing on remaining matters in Plan Change 13.  The report can be viewed online(external link), as well as the minutes(external link).

View the Public Notice, formally publishing notice of the withdrawal of part of Plan Change 13 [PDF, 39 KB].

It is anticipated that a hearing on the remaining provisions of PC13 will be held in the first half of 2025.

As Plan Change 13 and Plan Change 14 were notified at the same time, with considerable duplication of heritage matters, all heritage-related submissions on Plan Changes 14 and 13 were combined in the summary of submissions and for the hearing on Plan Change 14. The bulk of these submissions were heard by the Independent Hearings Panel on PC14 in late 2023 and early 2024.

That Panel considered that most heritage matters and submissions on them were outside the scope of PC14, an “intensification planning instrument”, and they expected that most of these heritage matters would be heard under PC 13, subject to a standard RMA plan change process.

The exceptions to this are listed below:

Protected items or settings

Amendments to the extent or location of the following items or settings were decided through  Plan Change 14 and are withdrawn from Plan Change 13:

  • The Citizens’ War Memorial
  • 59 Hansons Lane (Rannerdale)
  • 181 High Street
  • The setting of New Regent Street Shops
  • 135 High Street

The following items were subject to descheduling decisions through Plan Change 14  i.e. protection has been removed, and these matters will not be reheard through Plan Change 13:

  • 471 Ferry Road
  • 137 Cambridge Terrace (Harley Chambers)
  • 40 Norwich Quay (demolished)
  • 136 Barbadoes Street (demolished Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament)
  • 32 Armagh Street (Blue Cottage)
  • 65 Riccarton Road (St James’ Church)

The following items were subject to Council recommendations through Plan Change 14 to deschedule i.e. remove protection, with the final decision still to be made by the Minister for Resource Management Reform:

  • 265 Riccarton Road (Antonio Hall)
  • 9 Daresbury Road (Daresbury)

In Plan Change 13, the proposed scheduling of the Yaldhurst Memorial Hall and its interior is withdrawn.

Plan Change 13 - Residential Heritage Areas (RHAs) - Extent

The Residential Heritage Areas at Heaton Street and Piko/Shand (Riccarton Block) State Housing are withdrawn.  

The reason for withdrawing the Piko/Shand RHA is that the area has been identified as being suitable for new housing, including social housing.  The reason for withdrawing the Heaton St RHA is that the size and degree of change in the area does not warrant pursuing RHA provisions.

The blue cottage, its setting and the whole property at 32 Armagh Street are removed from the Inner City West RHA.

Plan Change 13 - Residential Heritage Areas – Rules

Council has withdrawn the proposed RHA interface provisions around five of the RHAs which share a boundary or part of a boundary with High Density Residential or Residential Guest Accommodation zones. The reason is to simplify provisions.

All area-specific built form rules for RHAs in Chapter 14 Residential, Rule 14.5.3.2 are withdrawn, in order to reduce complexity. Built form rules in these areas will be the same as those of the zone in which they are situated. Resource consent will still be needed for new buildings, and for alterations to exteriors of and demolition of existing buildings, if they have been classified as “defining” or “contributory” buildings in the relevant RHA.

Hearing recording

The recordings of the hearing are available on YouTube(external link).

Use the timestamps in the description box below each video to find specific parts of the hearing.

16 June 2025 update

The hearing location has changed to the Camellia Room at Te Hononga Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch – Floor 2, top of the second escalator, turn left and cross the footbridge.

The hearing will be held on 17 and 18 June 2025, with 19 June held in reserve.

The hearing will be held at the Christchurch City Council Civic Building (53 Hereford Street) on the second floor in the Camellia Room and will start at 9am each day.

5 June 2025 update

13 June 2025 update

Documents received during hearing

Summary Statements of Evidence

Glenda Dixon - Residential Heritage Areas

Section 42A report and appendices:

Dr Ann McEwan - Residential Heritage Areas

Statement of evidence and appendices - Residential Heritage Areas and individual heritage items:

Phil Osborne - Residential Heritage Areas

Statement of evidence - Heritage economics:

Suzanne Richmond - Heritage items

Section 42A report and appendices - Heritage items:

Amanda Ohs - Heritage items

Statement of evidence and appendices - Heritage items:

William Fulton - Heritage items

Statement of evidence and appendices - Heritage architecture:

Stephen Hogg - Heritage items

Statement of evidence and appendices - Heritage engineering:

Gavin Stanley - Heritage items

Statement of evidence and appendices - Quantity surveyor:

 

Council Legal Submissions

The links below show withdrawals from the notified PC13 provisions as well as amendments to PC13 provisions as a result of PC14 decisions. The schedule of heritage items will be updated imminently in the online District Plan to reflect the PC14 decisions, which are now operative.

All other notified Plan Change 13 provisions will be heard in the Plan Change 13 hearing. Other chapters with minor changes proposed in PC13 are not shown here, as these are unchanged since notification.

New Lyttelton RHA maps - June 2025 [PDF, 7 MB]

PC13 Provisions - Council position [PDF, 4.4 MB]

The following submission points will not be considered in the PC13 hearing, as they have either been dealt with in the PC14 decisions in 2024, or relate to provisions which have been withdrawn by the Council.