Resources

Explore our resources – a living archive of Greytown’s heritage, advocacy work, and stories. From speaker series recordings and heritage guides to planning submissions and historical research, these resources connect our community to the people, places, and decisions that shape Greytown’s living history.

Greytown Heritage Trust Style Guide

The style guide applies to Greytown’s Heritage Precinct – an essential part of the history, culture and economy of Greytown.

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Our advocacy

South Wairarapa District Council Long-Term and Spatial Plan Review (2020–21)

The Greytown Heritage Trust made a detailed submission to SWDC’s 2020 Long-Term Plan and Spatial Plan Review, advocating for heritage-sensitive growth.

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Wairarapa Combined District Plan: 2022–2025 Consultation

Greytown Heritage Trust made a detailed written submission on the proposed Wairarapa Combined District Plan in December 2022, followed by oral presentations during the 2025 consultation hearings held in March and April.

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Archaeological Authority

Should you be setting out on work on a property and there is a question or sensitivity about the archaeological integrity of the land and its buildings, because there is identified significant history or cultural importance, you will need to apply for a permit called an archaeological authority.

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Speaker Series

Rob Stevens

Rob Stevens was a noteworthy speaker at the 2025 AGM of Greytown Heritage Trust. He outlined an intricate relationship with heritage; heritage as taonga and as kaitiaki; as treasure and as guardianship. Rob’s discourse heightened the sense of vulnerability for our built heritage, the delicacy of honouring a history and not muddling the evidence too clumsily, and the optimism in some nationally important achievements in shepherding our cityscapes and supporting custodians of our recorded heritage. There are often quiet heroes in our cultural life, people who we can’t necessarily name but to whom we’re unwittingly indebted.

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Useful contacts

Wairarapa Archives

Alexander Turnbull Library Collections at the National Library of New Zealand

Papers Past

Retrolens

Property Titles

Archives NZ

Heritage NZ

BRANZ
Renovation guides for period homes

Department of Conservation

The New Zealand Tree Register

Historic Places New Zealand

New Zealand Historical Association

NZ History

Pū Manaaki Kahurangi 
New Zealand Conservators Of Cultural Materials

ICOMOS Aotearoa New Zealand 
Te Mana o Nga Pouwhenua o Te Ao
Professional organisation for the support and advancement of individuals and organisations engaged in the conservation of places of cultural heritage value.

Backcountry Trust
Supporting Aotearoa’s backcountry heritage

Remuera Heritage
Recognises, records and helps preserve local history in Auckland’s Remuera

Parnell Heritage
Furthers preservation, study, knowledge and dissemination of information about the heritage of Parnell

Heritage Mahurangi
Protect, preserve, promote the Warkworth area

Heritage Central Otago

Otaki Heritage -Te Whare Pouhere Taonga o Ōtaki

Southern Heritage Trust
Devoted to Otago social, cultural, architectural and industrial heritage

Kāpiti Heritage Group

Lottery funding and heritage

Dulux Heritage colours

Resene Heritage Colour Schemes