Wellington Town Belt Management Plan
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Wellington Town Belt Management Plan JUNE 2018 Version Date Description 1.0 August 2013 Major review of the 1995 Wellington Town Belt Management Plan 1.1 April 2017 Updated to be consistent with the Wellington Town Belt Act 2016 1.2 June 2018 Addition of Abel Smith Street land to the Wellington Town Belt ISBN: 978-0-947521-05-9 Wellington Town Belt Management Plan Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 The Town Belt Concepts ................................................................................................. 4 1.2 What is the Wellington Town Belt? .................................................................................. 5 1.3 The Wellington Town Belt Management Plan .................................................................. 6 1.4 Key guiding policies and plans ....................................................................................... 11 2 Wellington Town Belt legislative and policy framework ....................................... 19 2.1 How is the Wellington Town Belt managed? .................................................................. 19 2.2 Wellington Town Belt principles ..................................................................................... 20 2.3 Wellington Town Belt legal status .................................................................................. 22 2.4 Wellington Town Belt Protection and Enhancement ....................................................... 23 2.5 Policies .......................................................................................................................... 23 2.6 Wellington Town Belt alienations ................................................................................... 24 2.7 Reinstatement policy in the 1995 Management Plan and 1998 Reinstatement Policy .... 25 2.8 The Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009 .............................................................................................................................. 26 2.9 Proposed approach to Wellington Town Belt additions .................................................. 26 3 Partnership and community participation .............................................................. 28 3.1 Partnership and community participation ....................................................................... 28 3.2 Partnership with mana whenua ...................................................................................... 28 3.3 Community participation ................................................................................................ 30 4 Landscape ................................................................................................................. 33 4.1 Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 34 4.2 Policies .......................................................................................................................... 34 4.3 The Wellington Town Belt landscape ............................................................................. 37 5 Ecology ...................................................................................................................... 43 5.1 Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 44 5.2 Policies .......................................................................................................................... 44 5.3 Historic ecosystems ....................................................................................................... 47 5.4 Wellington Town Belt ecology today .............................................................................. 48 5.5 Issues and opportunities ................................................................................................ 51 6 Recreation ................................................................................................................. 57 6.1 Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 57 6.2 Policies .......................................................................................................................... 58 Wellington City Council | 1 of 284 6.3 Recreation role of the Wellington Town Belt .................................................................. 61 6.4 Existing recreational activities ........................................................................................ 62 6.5 Informal activities ........................................................................................................... 63 6.6 Sporting infrastructure ................................................................................................... 67 7 Culture and History .................................................................................................. 74 7.1 Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 74 7.2 Policies .......................................................................................................................... 75 7.3 Traditional history .......................................................................................................... 76 7.4 Historical outline of the development of the Wellington Town Belt ................................. 77 7.5 Sites of interest and historic significance ....................................................................... 79 8 Management Sectors ................................................................................................ 83 8.1 Sector 1 – Te Ahumairangi Hill ...................................................................................... 85 8.2 Sector 2 – Kelburn Park ................................................................................................. 98 8.3 Sector 3 – Aro Valley/Polhill Gully ................................................................................ 109 8.4 Sector 4 – Brooklyn Hills .............................................................................................. 118 8.5 Sector 5 – Macalister Park ........................................................................................... 126 8.6 Sector 6 – Golf Course/Mt Albert ................................................................................. 135 8.7 Sector 7 – Newtown/Crawford Road ............................................................................ 148 8.8 Sector 8 – Hataitai Park ............................................................................................... 160 8.9 Sector 9 – Mt Victoria/Matairangi ................................................................................. 169 9 Rules for use and development ............................................................................. 179 9.1 Objective ..................................................................................................................... 179 9.2 Policies ........................................................................................................................ 179 9.3 Allowed activities ......................................................................................................... 180 9.4 Managed activities ....................................................................................................... 182 9.5 Decision-making guidelines ......................................................................................... 184 9.6 Prohibited activities ...................................................................................................... 188 9.7 Wellington City District Plan ......................................................................................... 193 Appendix 1 Town Belt and Basin Reserve Deed 1873 ............................................. 193 Appendix 2 Wellington Town Belt Act 2016 ............................................................ 198 Appendix 3 – Land Schedules ...................................................................................... 233 Land covered by the Wellington Town Belt Management Plan ............................................ 233 Appendix 4 – Town Belt traditional history ................................................................. 239 Appendix 5 – Town Belt Historical Outline .................................................................. 252 Origins and governance: a brief chronology......................................................................... 252 Public recreation ground ...................................................................................................... 256 The Wellington Botanic Garden ........................................................................................... 260 The Wellington Zoological Gardens ..................................................................................... 261 A green belt ......................................................................................................................... 262 Wellington City Council | 2 of 284 Other purposes and pressures on the Town Belt ................................................................. 268 Citizen action ......................................................................................................................