An application for consent to remove five stained glass windows from the historic Teschemakers chapel is on hold while the Waitaki District Council obtains more information about the potential heritage effects.
Lawyer Garth Lucas, acting for the New Zealand Dominican Sisters Trust Board, applied to the council for land-use resource consent to remove the windows, which depict five Dominican saints.
The council received more than 20 letters and emails in relation to the application.
In a reply to correspondents this week, planning consents manager David Campbell said the application remained on hold until those heritage effects were known.
The decision to process the application notified or non-notified was also on hold.
The chapel is listed as a category B heritage building in the council's district plan.
