Central Regional Office
Te Tari o te Takiwā o te Pūtahi a Māui
Level 1, 79 Boulcott St
PO Box 2629, Wellington 6140
25 May 2022
File ref: 12021-011
Simone Hadley
General Manager – Southern Property Portfolio
KiwiRail Holdings Limited
Email:
[email address]
Tēnā koe Simone,
WELLINGTON RAILWAY STATION PLATFORMS HERITAGE COVENANT:
INTERIM VALIDATOR ELECTRONIC TICKETING POSTS
Thank you for consulting Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on Greater Wellington Regional Council’s
project to provide an interim electronic ticketing system to the Wellington rail network. Stage 2 of this
project requires the installation of twenty Snapper-based electronic ticketing validators on the Wellington
Railway Station platforms. This will be an extension to the Stage 1 validator posts previously supported by
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga that were installed for the Johnsonville line last year, and is an
interim system until the National Ticketing Solution is implemented after 2024.
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga entered into a heritage covenant with the Crown in 2018 for the
Wellington Railway Station Platforms to protect the heritage values of this Category 1 Historic Place.
Greater Wellington Regional Council has engaged thoroughly with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
and KiwiRail on the number of validators, their location and arrangement, and user flow modelling of the
Stage 2 works. We support the Assessment of Environmental Effects, which considers the impact of these
validators to the heritage values of the platforms to be minor, and we are satisfied these heritage values
can continue to be protected under the heritage covenant.
In accordance with Clause 3 of the heritage covenant for the Wellington Railway Station Platforms, this
letter constitutes our written consent for KiwiRail Holdings Limited to effect the installation of twenty
additional interim validator posts and the incorporation of the existing 6 trial validator posts into the same
consent status, as detailed in plans WRS Ticketing Validator Stage 2, Wellington Railway Station, Building
Consent Issue Rev-0, May 2022, sheets A-G.01, G.02, G.03.
Thank you for consulting Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on this project.
Nāku noa, nā,
Dr Jamie Jacobs
Director Central Region
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
Tairangahia a tua whakarere; Tatakihia ngā reanga ō āmuri ake nei
Honoring the past; Inspiring the future