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Waterfront Plan Tamaki – kainga nga ika me nga wheua katoa! Auckland – where the fish are so succulent you can eat them bones and all! This proverb alludes to the once abundant and sought after marine resources of Auckland’s waterfront. It signals Waterfront Auckland’s desire to create a sustainable waterfront providing for the current and future generations of Aucklanders. A place all Aucklanders can access the Waitemata Harbour for recreation, business or cultural practices. FOREWORD The waterfront has reignited Aucklanders’ pride in their city. The pride and enthusiasm with which Aucklanders have embraced their new waterfront continues to amaze me. Although in its infancy, stage one of the redeveloped Wynyard Quarter and the expanse of Queens Wharf, attract people day after day, rain and shine. When Waterfront Auckland put forward its draft plans for the redevelopment of the whole waterfront last year, we received hundreds of letters, emails and submissions. Most were hugely positive. “Just get on with it!” was the cry. Our job at Waterfront Auckland is to lead the momentum of the revitalisation, and of pride. Having listened to Aucklanders, we have refined our plans, and here we present a vision for how the waterfront could be redeveloped, how it can continue to create transformational change. We are living in an extraordinary time, perhaps unprecedented in recent history, where opportunity is constrained and likely to remain so for some time to come. Our approach in these plans is to strike a balance that seizes opportunity while it offers, and continues to strive for a visionary outcome that our city and its people deserve. There are many interdependencies within these plans – without one initiative, another may not succeed. A number of organisations – Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Ports of Auckland and many others – need to work closely now to deliver this ambitious development programme. The greatest interdependency for the success of these plans relies on Aucklanders themselves. Their support of revitalisation and continued support of investment in the future is key to enabling the waterfront – and Auckland – to become the world’s most liveable city. Bob Harvey Chairman, Waterfront Auckland Thanks to all those individuals and organisations that have provided feedback and technical support to the Waterfront Plan. THE WATERFRONT PLAN Contents INTRODUCTION 4 WATERFRONT VISION 21 WATERFRONT PLAN 25 WATERFRONT CONTEXT 31 EXPLORING THE WATERFRONT GOALS 35 WATERFRONT-WIDE INITIATIVES 73 WATERFRONT NEIGHBOURHOODS 83 - Westhaven Area 85 - Wynyard Quarter 89 - Viaduct Harbour 95 - Central Wharves 99 - Quay Park Quarter 103 IMPLEMENTATION, ACTIONS, FUNDING AND MONITORING 107 YESTERDAY The waterfront today is one of New Zealand’s primary AucKland’S international gateways for commerce and tourism. An area steeped in maritime history, it has the highest concentration waterfront of marine industry businesses in New Zealand and the largest port. It is home to Auckland’s fishing industry and IS where a point of embarkation for the Hauraki Gulf islands and harbour communities. The waterfront contains one of the AucKland began largest marinas in the southern hemisphere. Urban development and renewal has continued to The gathering of fish and shellfish, the dramatically change the waterfront. A new harbour (Viaduct Harbour), indoor events centre (Vector Arena) harvesting of crops and the plying of trade and modern underground rail station (Britomart), plus have been part of the waterfront’s earliest new offices, restaurants, cafés, shops and apartments, and history. Since the mid-1880s the waterfront major restoration of the Britomart precinct, have occurred has been a hive of activity supporting a wide in the past 20 years. The major heritage restoration of the Britomart precinct with award-winning new buildings, range of infrastructure and industries along the opening up of the laneways and new public spaces, its length, such as flour mills, boatbuilding, has set a benchmark. New places for public enjoyment rope making, warehousing, sawmills, gas have recently opened on North Wharf and Jellicoe Street works and railways as well as numerous including the Viaduct Events Centre, Karanga Plaza, Wynyard Crossing (a bridge linking Wynyard Quarter taverns. The first Queen Street wharf was directly with the Viaduct) and a new playground and play built in 1852 and this was followed by the space at Silo Park. rapid construction of additional wharves. This ‘jewel in Auckland’s crown’, this ‘international gateway’ The iron ‘Red Fence’ was put up from 1912. and ‘shop window’ still has much potential to be realised. The iron ‘Red Fence’, Queens Wharf 4 THE WATERFRONT PLAN Ma¯ori customary use There are a number of former headland pa bookended by Where there weren’t gardens filled with kumara and taro, Okā (Point Erin) and Taurārua (Point Resolution) with Te the native bush would flourish with branches bending The Māori name for the Auckland isthmus was Tamaki Rerenga Oraiti (Point Britomart) in between, that provided under the weight of plump birds such as kererū. Numerous makau rau, translated as the bride sought by a hundred vantage points to monitor the comings and goings on the taniwha or spiritual guardians, such as Ureia, once dwelt in suitors. The land was highly valued and many battles were harbour. The harbour was the centre of an extensive water- the waters of the Waitemata using the reef off Point Erin to fought for supremacy. The Waitemata is an identity marker based transport network. scratch its back. for many tribes of wider Auckland. The name refers to Waka would be beached at numerous bays and inlets ready The city was founded with a transaction of land from Ngati the glistening waters of the inner harbour, its appearance for fishing expeditions particularly across the harbour at Whatua to the Crown, the ceremony for which was held likened to the highly valued obsidian (dark volcanic glass). Mangonui (Big Shark), now called Kauri Point. Fish and near Point Britomart. Trade between Pakeha and Māori The alternating sequence of bays divided by coastal shellfish harvested from Waikokota (Cockle Bay, now flourished until the outbreak of war in the 1860s. headlands or points were used by Māori as pā (fortified Freemans Bay) would be processed, dried and preserved for Many iwi are on the cusp of settling historic treaty villages). Of the twenty iwi groups recognised in the wider the leaner winter months and for trade. Auckland region, many had important associations with the grievances. This will assist in rebuilding their economic waterfront, such as Ngati Whatua, Te Wai o Hua and the Freshwater streams teeming with eels flowed down from bases to perhaps again have all iwi of the wider region Marutuahu confederations. the Karangahape and Te Rimutahi (Ponsonby) ridges. The involved in the economic development of the central city. Tunamau (to catch eels) stream continues to flow through Western Park in pipes whilst the Waikuta stream once poured into Freemans Bay, down College Hill. THE WATERFRONT PLAN 5 Wynyard Quarter Stage 1 Opening, August 2011 6 THE WATERFRONT PLAN A selection of sites of cultural and historical significance 18 17 14 15 19 1 16 12 13 11 2 10 3 7 4 5 9 6 8 1. Te Routu o Ureia 7. Waiatarau 12. Te Hika a Rama 16. Te Horo Roa Coastal rocks where the marine guardian (taniwha) Freemans Bay. Meaning ‘the reflecting waters’. Busy Brickfield Bay. Where a brick industry thrived in the Meaning ‘the slipping away’. Former position of a pã, Ureia would rub its body. industrial area in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 19th and early 20th century. Place where Rama lit a part of which slipped away, killing many people. fire to warm his grandchild, but it alerted enemies and 2. Te Okã 8. The Birdcage 17. Taurãrua he was attacked. Mãori pã site. Formerly known as the Rob Roy Hotel. Built in 1886. Judges Bay is named after Judge Martin who arrived Location of sawyers and boatbuilders. 13. Te Ngahuwera with Attorney General Swainson from Britain in 1841. 3. HMNZS Ngapona Pã site. Taurãrua, meaning ‘the annoying chant’, recalls those The site of now dismantled naval base accessed by 9. Te Koranga being attacked by invading Ngati Whatua, calling out Jacob’s Ladder. Meaning ‘the scaffolds’, Mãori fish-drying and 14. Horotiu insults. processing area. Commercial Bay. Horotiu is the name of the taniwha 4. Te Tõ – Point Fisher which plays in this area. 18. Nga one maru o Te Huatau A headland pã meaning ‘to haul up a waka’. 10. Te Tara Karaehe The sheltered bay of Huatau, an ancestor of Te Wai A track connecting Queen Street and waka landings at 15. Te Rerenga-Oraiti 5. Wai Kokota o hua. This bay starts at the Harbour Bridge and the bottom of Nelson Street. Named after a tern bird. Point Britomart. Meaning the leap of the survivors. Shallows of the bay abundant with shellfish (cockles). stretches to Judges Bay. Describes an incident where Ngati Whatua forces 11. Te Whatu 6. Victoria Park Markets drove their enemies off the headland with only a few 19. Taurãrua Waka mooring at mouth of Horotiu stream/Ligar canal. Built in 1905, was formerly the Auckland City surviving. The point was demolished to fill in Official Point Resolution. destructor and was converted to a market. Bay. Britomart is named after the British brig, HMS Britomart, which visited Auckland in the 1840s. THE WATERFRONT PLAN 7 TODAY Waterfront Auckland realm projects and non-commercial projects to achieve the agreed vision for the city waterfront, the city centre and for The Auckland Waterfront Development Agency, a Council- Auckland. This enables Waterfront Auckland to contribute Controlled Organisation, was established in November 2010 to the council’s objective of delivering further economic, as part of the formation of the Auckland Council.
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