Pompallier House Historic Reserve Reserve Management Plan: 2013
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Pompallier House Historic Reserve Reserve Management Plan: 2013 Final Version, September 2013 Elizabeth Cox Bay Heritage Consultants Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 3 1.1 Purpose of this plan 3 1.2 Time period for this plan 3 1.3 Location of the reserve 4 1.4 Legal description 5 1.5 Names 6 1.6 Pompallier site 6 1.7 Physical description 8 1.8 Statements of significance 9 Chapter 2: Context of Reserve 12 2.1 Acquisition and reserve gazettal 12 2.2 Management overview 12 2.3 Summary of other plans 13 2.4 Tangata whenua issues 13 2.5 Reserves Act 1977 14 2.6 Historic Places Act 1993 16 2.7 Resource Management Act 1991 and District Plan 18 2.8 Building Act 2004 23 2.9 NZ Archaeological Association Recorded Sites 23 2.10 ICOMOS 23 2.11 Relationships with other public spaces in the area 24 2.12 Relationships with other properties managed by the NZHPT 24 Chapter 3: NZHPT Vision and Management Aims 25 3.1 Vision 25 3.2 Management Aims 25 Chapter 4: Policies 30 4.1 Overall purpose and principles 30 4.2 Giving effect to Treaty principles 31 4.3 Statutory obligations 32 4.4 Plans 33 4.5 Protection and conservation 34 4.6 Public access and usage 36 4.7 Involvement with communities of interest and other agencies 39 4.8 Interpretation 40 4.9 Research, information and records 41 4.10 Heritage collections 42 4.11 New constructions and development 43 4.12 Acquisition, relinquishment and agreements transferring real property rights 44 Chapter 5: Bibliography 45 2 Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this plan The purpose of this plan is to govern the control and management of the Pompallier House Historic Reserve by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT). The NZHPT were appointed to control and manage one part of the reserve on behalf of the Crown in 1967; the reserve was enlarged in later years. This plan is a statutory document that is reQuired by the Reserves Act 1977 and has been prepared in accordance with section 41 of the Reserves Act 1977. Section 41(3) of the Act sets out the purpose of a reserve management plan as being to: provide for and ensure the use, enjoyment, maintenance, protection, and preservation, as the case may require, and, to the extent that the administering body's resources permit, the development, as appropriate, of the reserve for the purposes for which it is classified. In the case of Pompallier, it was classified as a Historic Reserve. This means that section 18 of the Act applies, and that the management of the reserve must be done: For the purpose of protecting and persevering in perpetuity such places, objects and natural features, and such things thereon or therein contained as are of historic, archaeological, cultural, education and other special interest This section states that the administration of a Historic Reserve must ensure that: - the structures, objects, and sites illustrate with integrity the history of New Zealand; - the public have freedom of entry and access to the reserve (subject to conditions, including the right to charge admission fees, and in order to protect the reserve or visitors) - where other features (e.g. scenic, biological, geological etc) features exist on the reserve, those features are managed in a way that is compatible with the main purpose of the reserve - its value as a soil, water and forest conservation area should be maintained - indigenous flora and fauna should be preserved as far as possible.1 Therefore, in summary, this plan will set out the ways in which the NZHPT will manage the Pompallier House Historic Reserve to ensure the ‘use, enjoyment, maintenance, protection, and preservation … and… development’ of the reserve. The plan will note, where necessary, where the status Quo is to be maintained, as well as where changes are envisioned. 1.2 Time period for this plan The Reserves Act does not specify what period of time a Reserve Management Plan is to cover. Section 43(4) of the Act states that the management body should keep the plan in continuous review, in order to adapt to changing circumstances. The Minister of Conservation can also reQuest a review if s/he thinks it necessary. Therefore, the NZHPT has decided that this plan will cover ten years, but will be reviewed as necessary, when 1 See section 18 of the Reserves Act for exact wording. 3 significant changes are to be implemented, and will be checked every two years to consider whether it needs to be reviewed. 1.3 Location of the reserve The Pompallier House Historic Reserve is located on The Strand in Russell, Bay of Islands, Northland. The reserve is accessed by legal road (The Strand) that runs along the foreshore from Russell township, at the southern end of Kororāreka Bay. While there is some vehicle access on this road, it is largely used as a pedestrian access. A legal Right of Way extends past the reserve to allow private property neighbours to access their properties to the south. Behind the property (to the east) is Department of Conservation reserve land. Location & extent is shown indicatively only as copied from iwi consultation (I) notes. Pomare's P No recorded archaeology has been obtained MatauwhiRECREATIONAL Bay Recreational RESERVE Reserve DOC Land Catholic Church Possible cross boundary community connections Private Property NOTES: 1- P information, Fladgate boundaries, house & tracks all DOC Land taken from DOC Report 22.01.2003 sent to NZHP. 2- Above information is traced over .pdf scanned images so P (Ngre Raumati) are indicative only. Christ Church 3- Exact extent and division of land ownership to Matauwhi Bay Recreational Reserve unknown. 4- Private caravan park proposal could sever the possible links between broader sites 5- Cross boundary interactions need to have suitable Private Property security to prevent willful and unintentional damage of stes Proposed Caravan Park with Resource POMPALLIER MISSION Consent application submitted Haratu Kororreka Marae Society Te Maiki Hill A strong relationship exists between sites Kororreka Museum POSSIBLE WIDER VISITOR EXPERIENCES Kororreka Russell Date: 26 July 2011 Level 2 TEL: 64 4 802 5444 Pompallier Mission Masterplan Job No.: 1730 74 Cuba St FAX: 64 4 802 5446 P.O. Box 11-517 www.studiopacific.co.nz incl. Clendon Cottage and hillside Wahi Tapu Wellington, NZ email: [email protected] C 30 4 Location of Pompallier Reserve, and other features of interest in Russell township in its vicinity. The bottom map is taken from Sheet C30, Studio of Pacific Architecture, Pompallier Master Plan, 2011 1.4 Legal description The Pompallier House Historic Reserve is a Crown property comprising 1.8379 hectares. It is comprised of three lots: Allotment 13 SO56002 (Section 13 Town of Russell) - 4,362m2 Part Lot 1, DP 29544 - 5,062m2 Area A, SO 67497 (Part Allotment 14 Lot 13 Town of Russell) - 8,955m2 It is a Historic Reserve in terms of Section 18 of the Reserves Act 1977, and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust has been appointed as the administering body to control and manage these sections as one reserve (the three sections were added to the reserve at different times, as set out in section 2.1 below). The first legal title listed above contains the printery building and its surrounding gardens and orchards, plus Clendon Cottage and its surrounding gardens, and three small outbuildings. The second contains what is known today as the Stephenson Hillside. The third contains what is known today as the Clendon Hillside (and includes part of Te Keemua pa site). 30 Pt Allot 14 30 DP SO56002 35 (Historic Reserve & Recreation Purposes) Section 13 Town of Russell 45 Bench Seat 40 Water Tank Lot2 DP 56147 30 Private Property Pt Lot 1 35 DP29544 (Historic Reserve) 2 Thought to be a former fenceline as 5,062.5 m 30 25 shown in 1890 Wheeler plan. Traced over (0.5 ha.) .pdf scanned image from Clough & Assoc. Feb 2011 Report 25 Lot1 DP 56147 20 Pt Allot 5 Area A DP 3691 Private property 20 SO 67497 (Historic Reserve) 15 8,989.8 m2 (0.9 ha.) 45 10 Lot2 DP 150108 Water Tank Red Shed Printery 10 40 Gardeners Shed Allotm 13 SO 56002 (Historic Reserve & Historic Water Tank 35 Purposes) 5 Section 13 Town of Russell 5 Clendon 30 Cottage 4,363.1 m2 5 Lot 2 (0.44 ha.) 25 DP 197707 Gatehouse 15 5 R.O.WR.O.W EXISTING SITE AREA Taken from Sheet C26, Studio of Pacific Architecture, Pompallier Master Plan, 2011 Date: 26 July 2011 Level 2 TEL: 64 4 802 5444 Pompallier Mission Masterplan Job No.: 1730 74 Cuba St FAX: 64 4 802 5446 P.O. Box 11-517 www.studiopacific.co.nz incl. Clendon Cottage and hillside Wahi Tapu Wellington, NZ email: [email protected] C 26 5 1.5 Names The nomenclature Pompallier House Historic Reserve is the legal gazetted name for the reserved land controlled and managed by the NZHPT. As a result, this is the name used as in the title for this plan. However, ‘Pompallier House’ is now recognised as an inadeQuate description of the site, or even the building. These words reflect a now out-of-date understanding of Pompallier, and do not reflect the multiple uses of the site, or indeed even its original use. Furthermore, this plan covers much more than just the ‘House’ (now know as the Printery building), covering as it does the printery, the garden, Clendon Cottage, multiple outbuildings and the portion of the hillside included under the NZHPT’s control and management.