Heritage fund
We have some special and unique places in Kāpiti and landowners can get financial help to protect them for future generations.
The Council’s Heritage Fund helps landowners manage and protect heritage features including historic buildings, ecological sites, geological sites, significant trees or waahi tapu. Whether it’s protecting native bush, restoring a heritage building or undertaking educational research, your project may be eligible.
Applications closed on 14 November 2020. The next funding round dates will be announced later in 2021.
Criteria and applications | Timeline | Recipients 2020/21 | Related links
Criteria and applications
Review the criteria and guidelines document below, to check if your project could be eligible before applying.
Timeline
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Late September/early October 2021 |
Opening of applications |
Recipients 2020/21
There are 11 projects benefiting from the 2020 allocation of the fund.
| Recipient |
Project |
Year |
| Waterfall Road Bush 118 Waterfall Rd, Paraparaumu |
Funding of trap network maintenance Landowners of the 17.3 hectares heritage bush-remnant site have received financial support to protect and restore its native biodiversity, including native plant, insect, lizard and bird populations. |
2020/21 |
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Haruatai Forest heritage management |
Planting more trees and controlling pest plants and animals This heritage management project will control pest plants and animals in Haruātai Forest, the second biggest swamp forest remnant in the district after Ngā Manu–Jacks Bush. The remnant is a taonga of local iwi, and is used as an outdoor classroom by Te Wānanga o Raukawa students. |
2020/21 |
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Ecological Site K017 (125ha bush block on the edge of Tararua Forest Park) |
Extending and maintaining an existing 3km network of bait stations and traps to control possums, stoats and rats Funding will assist the control of pest animals and weeds on a 125-hectare bush block on the edge of Tararua Forest Park. This block is a valuable part of an evolving ‘mountains to the sea’ ecological corridor that has the potential to link the wilderness of the Tararua Range to Kāpiti Island via the Ōtaki River, providing a safe habitat for many native bird species. |
2020/21 |
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Te Hapua wetlands site (ecological site KO57) |
Restoration planting to buffer the wetland The previous owners of 234 Te Hapua Road spent more than a decade restoring the 4.1 hectares of wetland on their property. The new owners are not only continuing restoration but also increasing the wetland’s size by retiring adjacent land from grazing and planting native wetland species. Protected by a QEII Trust covenant, the wetland is part of the regionally significant swamp and is considered one of the best and largest remaining examples on the Kāpiti Coast. |
2020/21 |
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Outlying wetland site in Te Hapua network |
Tree removal, and native plants to be planted this winter The landowner is removing invasive plants and planting native trees to restore the margins of the Te Hapua wetland. This will enhance the 0.5-hectare wetland and provide 1 hectare of complementary dune forest habitat for native plants and animals. |
2020/21 |
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Kahikatea – key indigenous tree in urban areas |
Protecting kahikatea by felling Australian blackwood The funding will be used to save a large, protected kahikatea tree which is being threatened by a faster growing and larger Australian blackwood. |
2020/21 |
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Privately owned native bush area (ecological site KO61) |
Fencing and native plants Landowners of a site near the Waikanae Scenic Reserve will use the funds to reposition stock fences to provide protective buffer-planting around the forest’s edges, and control weeds and pest animals such as rabbits, possums, stoats and rats. |
2020/21 |
| Telegraph Hotel 284 Rangiuru Road, Ōtaki |
Roof renewal Since opening in 1872, the Telegraph Hotel in Ōtaki has been an important social hub and business in the town for more than 125 years, and is a listed heritage property in the Kāpiti Coast District Plan. The owners have undertaken a major refurbishment since 2011 and will use the funds to re-roof the building in time for its 150th anniversary in 2022. |
2020/21 |
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Notable trees |
Removal of Phoenix palm threatening magnolia, and of deadwood limb on rimu The property owner has received funding for an arborist to protect two notable trees on their property – a rimu and magnolia (Magnolia grandifolia). |
2020/21 |
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13ha of native bush (ecological site K078) |
Fencing of wetland area in steep gully |
2020/21 |
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Dactylanthus taylorii/Pua ō te Reinga restoration site |
Production and installation of large information signs |
2020/21 |
For further details, see the Grants allocation subcommittee (Heritage Fund) Agenda for 11 March 2021.