All sorts of unexpected things make up our heritage – they celebrate our past, present and future, and it’s our job to identify and protect them. Over the past decade, we’ve carried out a massive programme of repairs and restorations, but we still have some work left to do.

In the next 10 years we propose spending $51 million on heritage items, including:

Canterbury Provincial Chambers (Stage 1) – $20 million

Botanic Gardens – Cuningham House – $9 million

Robert McDougall Gallery – strengthening and base isolation – $15 million

We’re proposing to incorporate our separate Heritage Targeted Rate into the general rate. This proposed change produces a rates timing change which will reduce rates in 2024/25 by $2 million.