UOA provides expert heritage services nationwide, offering specialist solutions in history, cultural resource management, and heritage building analysis. With extensive experience and a proven track record, we deliver comprehensive heritage consulting tailored to projects across New Zealand. These include:

Heritage Impact Assessments

A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is required under the Resource Management Act (1991) to accompany all consent applications where there is the potential for it to affect heritage and archaeological sites. It assesses the environmental effects in accordance with Schedule 4 of the Act. It can be commissioned before an archaeological assessment and examines the interrelationships between heritage resources to understand the overall impact and effect of a development across a site complex. It includes:

-        The examination of both pre and post 1900 heritage elements

-        The changes and works proposed

-        Any statutory or policy implications for the development

-        Summary of the positive and negative effects of the proposed development works

-        Recommendations for mitigation and management of heritage features.

If an archaeological authority is also required in addition to resource consent, components of a HIA can be used as part of the archaeological assessment application.

Conservation Plans

Conservation planning for heritage assets is the process of developing strategies to protect and manage historic places, structures, and cultural sites for the long term. It ensures that heritage values are preserved while allowing for sustainable use, maintenance, and adaptation to changing needs. UOA can provide Conservation Plans to help identify the significance and heritage values of a historic place in order to create policy and recommendations of how to conserve, manage and care for it.