Harcourts building related newsitems

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    Harcourts - Court says no to demolition

    • 1 Nov 2014
    • Iona Pannett
    • Great news today that the Environment Court has for the second time said no to demolishing the Harcourts building on Lambton Quay. The decision just made public essentially has vindicated the Council position: that our District Plan sets a high bar for demolishing heritage buildings and that in this case, the bar was not reached. Interestingly, the Court also found no fundamental conflict between the operation of the Building and Resource Management Acts and found that leaving the building standing would not fundamentally compromise public safety.
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • $10million in exchange for demolition?

    • 20 Aug 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Wealthy developer Mark Dunatschik has offered to pay $5m to help strengthen St Gerard’s, and another $5m to help strengthen St Mary of the Angel’s. But there’s a condition. He’ll write the cheques only if he’s allowed to demolish the heritage Harcourts Building in Lambton Quay.
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Dunajtschik demolition a done deal?

    • 2 May 2014
    • Eye of the Fish
    • News just in via the Stuff website that Mark Dunajtschik has won his appeal in the High Court against the Environment Court. But it does not mean that Mr D has the right to go out and demolish the building straight away – instead, a rehearing has been ordered. This legal stuff is exhausting, and expensive. With the amount that Mr D has spent on the legal costs so far, you might think that he could quite easily have just strengthened the building instead.
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Harcourts decision

    • 26 Feb 2013
    • Eye of the Fish
    • For those that are interested, the following is the text of the final paragraphs of the decision on the Harcourts building: (302) In the end, for the reasons we have outlined, we have concluded that the demolition of the Harcourts building would not constitute sustainable management of an important physical resource, namely a heritage building [...]
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Demolition not the Answer

    • 25 Feb 2013
    • Eye of the Fish
    • So: the results are out from the Commissioners: Mark Dunajtschik may not demolish the “Harcourts” building. That’s an interesting result – and opposite to that recommended by the Council’s own planning officers – and Mr Dunajtschik is furious. We wrote about it here, and also here, and this decision sets out quite clearly that demolition [...]
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • One saves, the other wants to demolish

    • 4 Dec 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 136 months ago
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    Inglewood Place, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • Don’t demolish the Harcourts Building; a plea to save its history and architecture

    • 10 Nov 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 137 months ago
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    More Dunajtschik

    • 22 Oct 2012
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Regarding the old Temperance and General Building on Lambton Quay – known to next to no-one as the Harcourts building. Submissions on it’s proposed demolition are due in a week – by the end of the month. It is a crunch point for Wellingtonians – should a building owner be allowed to demolish their building [...]
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand
  
  

• • Dunajtschik demolition

    • 2 Oct 2012
    • Eye of the Fish
    • So the time has come at last: the first of a presumed wave of proposals to demolish perfectly good buildings in Wellington. Christchurch has had to put up with a swathe of demolition over the last couple of years, and they are getting so good at destroying everything down there, that they have forgotten that it is not compulsory. Cranmer Courts is their city’s latest disgrace – the Harcourts building is ours.
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand