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Cemeteries Management Plan: Tawa, Karori and Mākara Cemeteries Mahere Whakahaere Urupā Cemeteries Management Plan Pipiri 2021 June 2021 Mahere Whakahaere Urupā: Ngā Urupā o Tawa, Karori me Mākara Cemeteries Management Plan: Tawa, Karori and Mākara Cemeteries Mahere Whakahaere Urupā Cemeteries Management Plan Ihirangi This strategic and Contents management plan for 1. Mō tēnei mahere Mākara, Karori and About this plan 6 1.1 Purpose and scope 7 Tawa cemeteries aims 1.2 Legislative and strategic framework 7 1.2.1 Reserves Act 8 to ensure we meet the 1.2.2 Relationship with mana whenua 9 1.2.2.1 Opau Urupā 9 short and long-term 1.3 The Council’s cemeteries 11 1.3.1 Tawa Cemetery 11 1.3.2 Karori Cemetery 12 cemetery needs of our 1.3.3 Mākara Cemetery 12 1.3.4 Issues and opportunities 13 growing city. 1.4 Cemetery trends 14 1.5 Governance and expertise 15 1.6 Plan structure 15 2. Moemoeā Vision 16 2.1 Vision 17 2.1.1 Key values 17 2.1.2 Goals 17 3. Ngā Whainga whānui me ngā kaupapa here General objectives and policies 18 3.1 Land administration and provision 19 3.1.1 Objectives 19 3.1.2 Policies 19 3.1.2.1 Land status 19 3.1.2.2 Cemetery capacity and planning 19 3.1.2.3 New cemetery master planning and landscape development 20 Wellington City Council Mahere Whakahaere Urupā Cemeteries Management Plan 3.2 Customer service 21 4. Ngā kaupapa here me ngā mahi urupā-motuhake 3.2.1 Objectives 21 Cemtery-specific policies and actions 45 3.2.2 Policies 21 4.1 Tawa Cemetery 46 3.2.2.2 Respecting diversity 21 3.2.2.2 Burial and cremation rights and options 23 4.2 Karori Cemetery 51 3.2.2.3 Remembrance 25 4.3 Mākara Cemetery 69 3.2.2.4 Gravesite maintenance 27 3.2.2.5 Quality records management and information systems 28 5. Ngā ture mō te whakamahinga tūmatanui 3.3 Heritage 29 Rules for public use 80 3.3.1 Objectives 29 5.1 Rules overview 81 3.3.2 Policies 29 5.2 Objective 81 3.3.2.1 Landscape character and amenity planting 29 3.3.2.2 Natural environment 30 5.3 Policies 81 3.3.2.3 Heritage recognition and protection 32 5.3.1 Managed activities 81 3.3.2.4 Graves and monuments 33 5.3.2 Allowed activities 82 3.3.2.5 Buildings and infrastructure 34 5.3.3 Prohibited activities 84 3.4 Visitor experience 35 3.4.1 Objectives 35 6. Te whakatinanatanga 3.4.2 Policies 35 Implementation 86 3.4.2.1 Public use 35 6.1 Funding and priorities 87 3.4.2.2 Access and amenities 36 6.1.1 General policy actions 88 3.4.2.3 Wayfinding, signage and interpretation 37 6.1.2 Tawa Cemetery actions 94 3.4.2.4 Public events 38 6.1.3 Karori Cemetery actions 96 6.1.4 Mākara Cemetery actions 104 3.5 Community and partnership 39 6.1.5 Summary of new initiatives 106 3.5.1 Objectives 39 3.5.2 Policies 39 3.5.2.1 Partnership with mana whenua 39 Ngā āpitihanga 3.5.2.2 Collaboration with customer service stakeholders 40 Appendices 108 3.5.2.3 Community partnership 41 Appendix I. Glossary 109 3.6 Resilience 42 Appendix II. Strategic and statutory context 110 3.6.1 Objectives 42 Appendix III. Historical context 114 3.6.2 Policies 42 Chronology of Tawa, Karori and Mākara cemeteries 115 3.6.2.1 Emergency preparedness 42 Brief history of Tawa Cemetery 118 3.6.2.2 Resilient communities 42 Brief history of Karori Cemetery 118 3.6.2.3 Fire 42 Brief history of Mākara Cemetery 119 3.6.2.4 Sustainability and ecosystem services 43 Appendix IV. Maintenance and repair philosophy for graves and monuments 121 Appendix V. Categories of graves at Karori Cemetery 122 6 Wellington City Council Mahere Whakahaere Urupā 7 Cemeteries Management Plan 1.1 Purpose and scope 1.2 Legislative and 1. Mō tēnei Mahere Wellington City Council (the Council) manages four strategic framework cemeteries: Tawa, Bolton Street, Karori and Mākara This Cemeteries Management Plan fits within (see 1.3 for a brief overview). a broad framework of strategic, statutory About this plan Cemetery and cremation services are an essential and regulatory policies. The main documents part of the Council’s functions and infrastructure. are described in Appendix II, Strategic and Under the Burial and Cremation Act, the Council has Statutory Context. responsibilities and functions to provide for burials, As explained above, the Council has statutory manage cemeteries and keep cemetery records. requirements it must meet in providing and Under the Local Government Act, councils are also managing its cemeteries. Also important is the required to periodically assess provision of cemetery Council’s own strategic framework which sets the and cremation services, including the current and broad direction on the way Wellington City will future demand and the quality of services. develop. Key strategies include Wellington Towards The Council provides and manages land and 2040: Smart Capital and Planning for Growth which infrastructure for its cemeteries. It also provides focus on projected population growth. Within this customer services to the bereaved, funeral sector context, the cemeteries are an essential part of the and the public by handling bookings, information city’s infrastructure and must be planned to ensure enquiries and carrying out burials and cremations. sufficient capacity for the growing population. The cemeteries are important places of The Council has also developed in recent years commemoration. They are also valued public open strategies that address climate change, resilience spaces with amenity, heritage, natural and recreation and the need for sustainability in the broadest sense, values. A cemeteries management plan is required to: including Te Atakura First to Zero, Wellington’s Blueprint for a Zero Carbon Capital and the Wellington • ensure there is adequate future provision Resilience. Strategy. There are various ways in of cemetery land and infrastructure which the cemeteries management can contribute • guide the management and ongoing to these aspirational strategies. maintenance of the city’s cemeteries • inform the Council’s financial planning of resourcing requirements. This Cemetery Management Plan has been prepared to provide a consistent policy, management and decision-making framework for the Council to manage the following: • Tawa, Karori and Mākara Cemeteries • cemetery records including those of Bolton Street Cemetery1; and • any other cemeteries or burial grounds for which the Council becomes responsible. This plan is intended to span the 10-year period from 2021 to 2031 but within the context of a longer-term 20 to 50-year timeframe. The plan sets the general policy direction about how the cemeteries are run and the land managed but is not a detailed operational, staff or asset management plan. 1 Bolton Street Cemetery, is otherwise managed under the Botanic Gardens of Wellington Management Plan 8 Wellington City Council Mahere Whakahaere Urupā 9 Cemeteries Management Plan The relationships between this plan and the other documents are shown in the diagram below 1.2.2 Relationship 1.2.2.1 Opau Urupā with mana whenua The land for Opau Urupā was set aside for Taranaki Wellington City Council recognises the importance Whānui ki Te Ūpoko o Te Ika in its Treaty settlement 2 in 2009. Close to the wild, west coast of Mākara, the City-wide strategies and policies of the mana whenua relationship and has formal memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Taranaki site holds particular significance to Taranaki Whānui 2040: Smart Capital, Draft Spatial Plan, Te Atakura, Our Capital Spaces, Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika (Taranaki Whānui) due to its connections with past settlement and the Our Natural Capital, Commemorative Policy, Consolidated Bylaw, etc. and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Incorporated abundant seafood resources of the coast. The urupā (Toa Rangatira), based on the following principles: is vested in the Trustees of Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust (PNBST) as a Māori Reservation • Partnership and there is a protective covenant over the land. Legislation Acting reasonably, honourably and in good faith The urupā occupies a site of some 3.9 ha of steep hill to ensure the strategic relationship has integrity country along Mākara Road. The urupā was opened • Burial and Cremation Act and respect, in the present and for the future Area-specific policy in September 2017 and currently has two interments. • Local Government Act of Wellington Cemeteries Management Plan The site has 25 carparks and is accessed from Mākara • Reserves Act • Participation Road up a hill along some 400 metres of chip-sealed Recognising that both parties can contribute, road. The urupā has a capacity of between 700 and for mutual benefit, in deciding the future of 1050 standard burials along with ash burial spaces. the city – working towards and achieving the The MOU between the Council and PNBST states parties’ visions; and that the Trust and the Council will work together Operational • Protection to establish the mana whenua urupā provided for Asset plans, staff manuals, conservation plans, landscape Actively protecting the taonga of Taranaki through the Settlement Act. development plans, interpretation plans, etc. Whānui and the taonga of Ngāti Toa Rangatira and safeguarding cultural concepts, values and practices to be celebrated and enjoyed for all Wellingtonians. The Council has a responsibility to take into for in more detail and that there will be a consistent 1.2.1 Reserves Act account the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / approach to managing the Council’s cemeteries. This management plan has not been prepared under Treaty of Waitangi and to improve opportunities However, if there is a conflict between the policies in the Reserves Act because the land within Karori and for Māori to contribute to local government this plan and the SRMP in respect of Tawa Cemetery, Mākara cemeteries is not classified as reserve under decision-making processes.
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