About half of the requests are building consent searches, and up to 300 are assisting council staff preparing Land Information Memorandums (LIM).

[6] The Wellington City Archives were formally established in 1994, and Michelle Redward was appointed in March as Council archivist to supervise the move.

[7] The new Wellington City Archives was opened by Mayor Mark Blumsky on 26 June 1996, in an environmentally-controlled and earthquake-proof facility off Tory Street, with 5 km of shelving over 730 square metres of storage area.

[9][1] In 2007, more than 370,000 collection items and 9,000 scanned images were made available online, including large numbers of digitised building permit and consent records.

[2] Wellington City Archives is partnering with startup Excio to make more photographs from the collection available directly to people's mobile devices.