Protect historic heritage9 in the coastal environment from inappropriate subdivision, use, and development by:
- identification, assessment and recording of historic heritage, including archaeological sites;
- providing for the integrated management of such sites in collaboration with relevant councils, heritage agencies, iwi authorities and kaitiaki;
- initiating assessment and management of historic heritage in the context of historic landscapes;
- recognising that heritage to be protected may need conservation;
- facilitating and integrating management of historic heritage that spans the line of mean high water springs;
- including policies, rules and other methods relating to (a) to (e) above in regional policy statements, and plans;
- imposing or reviewing conditions on resource consents and designations, including for the continuation of activities;
- requiring, where practicable, conservation conditions; and
- considering provision for methods that would enhance owners’ opportunities for conservation of listed heritage structures, such as relief grants or rates relief.
9Refer to definition in section 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991.