Tag: IConIC

“HERITAGE GROUPS’ SHOCK AT CERA S38 FOR CPIT MEMORIAL HALL: HNZ Cat 2, CCC Gp3” Historic Places Media Release

HERITAGE GROUPS’ SHOCK AT CERA S38 FOR CPIT MEMORIAL HALL: HNZ Cat 2, CCC Gp3

Concerned citizens and Canterbury heritage groups including Historic Places Canterbury, IConIC and Civic Trust are appalled at the news that CERA has issued an s38 demolition order on the Christchurch Technical College (now CPIT) Memorial Hall at the request of CPIT.

This imposing building was opened in 1935 as a specially designed memorial to the supreme sacrifice made by 71 former pupils of the Technical College who were killed in World War 1. (more…)

Submission from IConIC (Interests in Conserving the Identity of Christchurch) and Historic Places Canterbury on Draft Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan – 2014

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The following is the text of a submission by Dr Ian Lochhead Associate Professor of Art History University of Canterbury, Chairperson, IConIC,  on behalf of IConIC and H.P.C. (more…)

“Submission from IConIC on Draft Heritage Building and Places Recovery Programme for Greater Christchurch”

IConIC logoDr Ian Lochhead has generously supplied us with the text of the IConIC submission.

"While it is so self evident that it scarcely deserves comment, the release for consultation of a draft Heritage Building and Places Recovery Programme for Greater Christchurch (HBPRP) over three years after the September 2010 earthquake and nearly three years after the February 2011 quake, is woefully inadequate."

The text of the submission is as follows: (more…)

Historic Places Canterbury Media Release: Support Our M.P.s Supporting Our Heritage Public Rally- 12.30pm 24th May

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Christchurch MPs are to receive NZ’s heaviest Heritage Open Letter (a 15kg stone tablet) addressed to Prime Minister John Key and Ministers, along with a heritage petition signed by 5000.

Media release from:
Historic Places Canterbury, IConIC, Christchurch Civic Trust, 21 May 2013 (more…)