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HUNTLY DOMAIN AND LAKE HAKANOA RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN Prepared for Waikato District Council by Boffa Miskell Ltd Approved by Council on 28 August 2012 Contents Introduction ......................................................... 1 Purpose of the Reserve Management Plan 1 Reserve Management Plan Procedure 4 Strategic Context 1 How to Use this Reserve Management Plan 6 Context ................................................................ 7 Location 7 Natural Physical Features 10 Historical Context 10 Community Consultation 13 Issues and Opportunities 13 Core Community Values 13 Vision and Objectives for Huntly Domain and Lake Hakanoa ................................................... 20 Development of the Vision 20 The Vision 20 Objectives 20 Reserve Management ....................................... 21 Objective 1 – To maintain existing facilities and resources for active recreation 21 Objective 2 – To provide for a range of passive recreational activities and for community events 23 Objective 3 – To manage and enhance safe access for pedestrians and vehicles 26 Objective 4 – To progressively improve Lake Hakanoa‟s water quality 27 Objective 5 – To actively manage and enhance lakeside and lake margin vegetation and wetland areas 30 Objective 6 – To manage and enhance passive recreation opportunities at Lake Hakanoa 32 Objective 7 – To provide integrated management of the Reserve. 35 Landscape Concept Plan .................................. 38 Landscape Concept Statement 38 Introduction Purpose of the Reserve Management Plan Huntly Domain and the Lake Hakanoa Reserve (a) Where scenic, historic, archaeological, (referred to as “the Domain” and “Lake Hakanoa” biological, cultural, scientific, or natural respectively, and “the Reserve” collectively) is an features or wildlife are present on the important area of open space for Huntly and the reserve, those features or wildlife shall surrounding communities. The Domain provides be managed and protected to the extent green space and passive and active recreational compatible with the principal or primary facilities, while Lake Hakanoa provides for purpose of the reserve: passive and active recreation in a lakeside setting. Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall authorise the doing of anything with Under four titles, The Domain is classified as respect to fauna that would contravene Recreation Reserve with Lake Hakanoa, and its any provision of the Wildlife Act 1953 or surrounding wetland, under 14 titles comprising any regulations or Proclamation or dual classification as Government Purpose notification under that Act, or the doing of Reserve or Local Purpose Reserve under the anything with respect to archaeological Reserves Act 1977 and as a Wildlife Refuge features in any reserve that would under the Wildlife Act 1953. contravene any provision of the Historic This Reserve Management Plan has been Places Act 1993. prepared under the provisions of the Reserves (b) To the extent compatible with the Act 1977. Section 41 of the Act states: principal or primary purpose of the “The Management Plan shall provide for and reserve, its value as a soil, water and Reserve Management Plan ensure the use, enjoyment, maintenance, forest conservation area shall be protection and preservation, as the case may maintained. require, and, to the extent that the administering Section 23 of the Reserves Act states that 1 body’s resources permit, the development, as Recreation Reserves are areas provided for: appropriate, of the reserve for which it is classified…” (1) “……. recreation reserves, for the purpose of providing areas for the Section 22 of the Reserves Act states that recreation and sporting activities and the Government Purpose Reserves are areas physical welfare and enjoyment of the Hakanoa provided for: public, and for the protection of the natural environment and beauty of the “…the purpose of providing and retaining areas countryside, with emphasis on the for such Government purpose or purposes as are retention of open spaces and on outdoor specified in any classification of the reserve. recreational activities, including recreational tracks in the countryside. (2) For the avoidance of doubt, and without limiting the purposes for which a (2) It is hereby further declared that, having Government purpose reserve may be regard to the general purposes specified classified, it is hereby declared that a reserve Huntly Domain and Lake in subsection (1) of this section, every may be classified as a Government purpose recreation reserve shall be so reserve for wildlife management or for other administered under the appropriate specified wildlife purposes. provisions of this Act that— (a) The public shall have freedom of (3) It is hereby further declared that, having entry and access to the reserve, regard to the general purpose specified in subject to the specific powers subsection (1) of this section, every conferred on the administering body Government purpose reserve shall be so by sections 53 and 54 of this Act, to administered and maintained under the any bylaws under this Act applying appropriate provisions of this Act that— to the reserve, and to such conditions and restrictions as the Approved Final Huntly Domain and Lake Hakanoa Reserve Management Plan - August 2012 administering body considers to be noted there is not separate Conversation necessary for the protection and Management Plan for Lake Hakanoa. The general well-being of the reserve Huntly Domain is not applicable to this section of and for the protection and control of the Act. The Act states: the public using it: (b) Where scenic, historic, 40A Conservation management strategies archaeological, biological, (1) Every conservation management geological, or other scientific strategy shall implement statements of features or indigenous flora or fauna general policy and establish objectives or wildlife are present on the for the management of reserves reserve, those features or that flora administered by the Department under or fauna or wildlife shall be this Act. managed and protected to the (2) Nothing in any conservation extent compatible with the principal management strategy shall derogate or primary purpose of the from the relevant provisions of this Act or reserve:……….. the purpose for which a reserve is held. (c) Those qualities of the reserve which (3) The Department shall manage such contribute to the pleasantness, reserves in accordance with harmony, and cohesion of the conservation management strategies. natural environment and to the (4) While any conservation management better use and enjoyment of the strategy affecting a reserve administered reserve shall be conserved: by the Department is in force, (d) To the extent compatible with the conservation management plans in principal or primary purpose of the respect of that reserve— reserve, its value as a soil, water, (a) Shall not be required to be reviewed: and forest conservation area shall (b) May be revoked by the Director- be maintained.” General, after giving notice in accordance with section 119 of this Act; and section 120 of this Act shall, with Section 23 of the Reserves Act states that Local Reserve Management Plan any necessary modifications, apply with Purpose Reserves are areas provided for: respect to every such notice. “…the purpose of providing and retaining areas 40B Conservation management plans in respect 2 for such local purpose or purposes as are of reserves administered by Department specified in any classification of the reserve. (1) The purpose of a conservation management plan under this section is to (2) It is hereby further declared that, having implement conservation management regard to the specific local purpose for which strategies and to establish objectives for the reserve has been classified, every local Hakanoa the management of a reserve or purpose reserve shall be so administered reserves administered by the and maintained under the appropriate Department, according to the purpose or provisions of this Act that— purposes for which that reserve is classified or those reserves are (a) Where scenic, historic, archaeological, classified. biological, or natural features are present (2) Nothing in section 41 of this Act shall on the reserve, those features shall be apply in respect of any conservation managed and protected to the extent management plan under this section. compatible with the principal or primary (3) Any such plan may relate to any reserve Huntly Domain and Lake purpose of the reserve...” or reserves of any classification. (4) The Department shall manage such Section 40A and 40B of the Reserves Act reserves in accordance with outlines the preparation of conservation conservation management plans. management strategies and plans. Section 40B (5) Nothing in any conservation outlines that nothing in Section 41 of the Act shall management plan shall derogate from apply in respect of any conservation any provision in— management plan under this section. Therefore (a) This Act or any other Act; or all objectives, policies and actions must be (b) Any general policy approved under consistent with the Conservation Management section 15A of this Act; or Strategy applicable to Lake Hakanoa only. It is o (c) Any conservation management strategy. Approved Final Huntly Domain and Lake Hakanoa Reserve Management Plan - August 2012 (6) Every management plan in force at the The Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims commencement of this section, that has (Waikato River) Settlement Act 2010 been approved under section 41 of this