Kaiwaka Township Improvement Plan
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KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN November 2016 Acknowledgements Authors: Sue Hodge – Parks and Community Manager – Kaipara District Council Annie van der Plas – Community Planner – Kaipara District Council Sarah Ho – Senior Planning Advisor – NZ Transport Agency Brian Rainford – Principal Traffic and Safety Engineer – NZ Transport Agency Mark Newsome – Safety Engineer – NZ Transport Agency Production and Graphics: Yoko Tanaka – Associate Principal / Landscape Architect – Boffa Miskell Special thanks: Derek Christensen, Ruth Tidemann and all of Kaiwaka Can Taumata Council Robbie Sarich – Te Uri o Hau Liz and Rangi Michelson – Te Uri o Hau Ben Hita – Te Uri o Hau Martha Nathan - Te Uri o Hau Henri Van Zyl – Kaipara District Council Jim Sephton – NZTA Sebastian Reed – NZTA The wider Kaiwaka Community who have provided feedback into this plan NZ Police If you have any further queries, please contact: Kaipara District Council NZ Transport Agency Private Bag 1001, Dargaville 0340 Private Bag 106602, Auckland 1143 T: 0800 727 059 T: 09 969 9800 www.kaipara.govt.nz www.nzta.govt.nz CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. CONTEXT 4 2.1 HISTORY 2.2 THE KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP TODAY 2.3 STATE HIGHWAY 1 (SH 1) 3. VISION FOR KAIWAKA 6 4. COMMUNITY ISSUES & DISCUSSION 7 TABLE 1. COMMUNITY ISSUES AND DISCUSSION 5. STRATEGY AND IMPROVEMENTS 14 TABLE 2: IMPROVEMENTS TO ACHIEVE VISION MAP 1: EXISTING CONTEXT PLAN MAP 2: IMPROVEMENT PLAN - WIDER TOWNSHIP AREA, SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM (1-5 YEARS, 2016 -2021) MAP 3: TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN - MAIN TOWNSHIP, SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM (1-5 YEARS, 2016-2021) MAP 4: TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN - MAIN TOWNSHIP, LONG TERM PLAN (5 YEARS+, 2021 ONWARDS) 6. IMPLEMENTATION 24 TABLE 3. SHORT – MEDIUM TERM ACTIONS (1-5 YEARS. 2016-2021) TABLE 4. LONGER TERM ACTIONS (5 YEARS +) 7. WHERE TO FROM HERE? 26 November 2016 KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN | i ii | KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN November 2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kaipara District Council, the NZ Transport Agency and the Kaiwaka Within the next fi ve years (short - medium term), it is anticipated that the community have in partnership, developed a plan to address traffi c following actions be implemented: related concerns experienced in Kaiwaka, while also improving the overall attractiveness of the township. This plan details actions or projects to • Pedestrian median island’s in key crossing locations be carried out within the short to medium term (2016-2021) and further • Welcome to Kaiwaka signage aspirational or longer term actions to achieve the overall vision for Kaiwaka as a safe, connected, green, vibrant and distinctive place. Responsibility of • Review speed limit in Kaiwaka implementing these actions is to be shared between all three parties. • A number of footpath or pedestrian connections installed or improved • Street tree planting for visual amenity • Art installation • Engineering assessment of Oneriri Road intersection and Kaiwaka Mangawhai Road intersection and future potential solutions investigated Further actions are anticipated to be implemented longer term, in keeping with the overall vision. Acknowledgement is given to the Kaiwaka Can Community Group which has led to the initiation of this project, and to Scott Dalziel as a member of that group who fatally died in a car crash in Kaiwaka in July 2016. November 2016 KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN | 1 1. INTRODUCTION ‘Kaiwaka Can’ since September 2015 to get a better understanding of Kaiwaka Township Improvement Plan – local issues, and to identify potential opportunities to improve pedestrian connectivity, improve driver behaviour, and enhance the amenity of the How did this come about? road corridor and wider township. In December 2015 a brochure was released for public feedback. This outlined the project and detailed the local issues and opportunities that had In September 2014, the Kaipara District Council undertook a Community been identifi ed to date. The brochure provided an opportunity for the wider Planning exercise in Kaiwaka. A public meeting was held for the Kaiwaka Kaiwaka community to learn about the project that was taking place and to community to identify local issues, and also the positive attributes that provide their own feedback. make Kaiwaka a great place to live. Feedback that was received largely reiterated themes that had already Following this, Council staff recorded all feedback into a Community Action been identifi ed. These included: Plan as a way to respond openly and honestly to all concerns and ideas. This exercise highlighted a number of concerns in relation to the form • The need for pedestrian crossings or safer pedestrian access to and function of the State Highway 1 (SH 1) corridor through the Kaiwaka shopping areas township including: • Traffi c speeds through the township are a major concern • safe pedestrian access (across the SH 1 and around town), and • Improve visual amenity, including; planting, gateway signage, and • traffi c speeds along SH 1 sculpture or art work As a result, the Kaipara District Council and the NZ Transport Agency (the • Improve access to and tidy the rest area Agency) have been collaboratively working with the local community group • The intersection of Oneriri Road and SH 1 is diffi cult to turn in and out 2 | KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN November 2016 Kaipara District Council and the NZ Transport Agency have also shared this Township Improvement Plan. The Plan presents an overall long term and discussed this plan and overall vision for Kaiwaka with representatives vision for Kaiwaka, and a set of actions proposed to address the presented of local hapu, Te Uri o Hau. Council and Agency staff met with the Taumata concerns. Council which consists of Kaumatua and Kuia of Te Uri o Hau who are appointed because of their mana, knowledge and leadership recognised by The Plan provides both initial short – medium term (1-5 years) and longer the people of their marae. Members of the Taumata Council have reviewed term (5 years +) actions, which support the delivery of the overall vision. this plan and have identifi ed how Te Uri o Hau’s history can be shared The NZ Transport Agency, Kaipara District Council and the Kaiwaka in the Kaiwaka Township. It is anticipated that story boards be added as community each have a shared responsibility for implementing this plan an action in this Improvement Plan and be carried out in conjunction with and delivering projects to support the vision. Many of the improvements Kaiwaka Can and Council to share the areas signifi cant in Maori history will be dependent on available budgets for their implementation, so those and culture. which require larger amounts of funding are therefore considered long term. Kaipara District Council and the NZ Transport Agency will use the principles of Te Aranga Māori Design Principles to enhance the protection, reinstatement, development and articulation of mana whenua cultural landscapes when implementing the plan to connect to and deepen our ‘sense of place’ where we can. The Principles seek to foster and guide both culturally appropriate design processes and design responses that enhance our appreciation of the natural, landscape and built environment. Feedback collected from the wider Kaiwaka Community, alongside the input from Kaiwaka Can and Te Uri o Hau, has helped shape the basis of November 2016 KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN | 3 2. CONTEXT 2.1 HISTORY Kaiwaka and the surrounding area is home to Te Uri o Hau, hapu of Ngati decade, most of Kaipara remained largely unoccupied by Maori, until Whatua, who arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand on their ancestral waka the 1930’s, when Ngati Whatua began moving back to the Kaipara and Mahuhu ki te Rangi around the year 1250 AD, at Taporapora on the shores surrounding areas. of the Kaipara Harbour. The local marae is Te Pounga Marae located on Kaiwaka was settled by Europeans in 1859 and the landscape was the Oneriri Peninsula. The Marae has evolved over the years from the changed with their arrival. Kaiwaka became a trading and commercial initial ‘Top House’ in the 1940’s to now also having a church, wharekai and point from this time on. Kauri bush was felled for timber or dug up for wharehui. Kauri gum and the land was cleared for pastoral farming. The Hakaru Kaiwaka is particularly signifi cant to local hapu Te Uri O Hau due to a large Dairy Company was formed to serve Kaiwaka farmers in 1902 until the battle that occurred here. In February 1825, Mangawhai, Kaiwaka and the factory closed in 1936. In 1913 the Kaiwaka section of the North Auckland surrounding region became the site of one of New Zealand’s great battles, Trunk Railway was opened, and met with a great celebration. Kaiwaka known as Te Ika a Ranginui. was without roading until the 1930’s when gravel roads were formed and motor vehicles began to take the place of rail. A combined hapu of Nga Puhi, armed with 300 muskets, journeyed from their northern lands and landed their waka’s at Mangawhai. They travelled and met a confederation of Kaipara hapu at Te Hakoru at the Te Waimako stream between Mangawhai and Kaiwaka, where the battle took place. The confederation of Kaipara hapu only possessed two muskets and Kaiwaka and the surrounding region was the site of subsequently many of the Kaipara people were killed during that period of time. Following the battle, the area was therefore declared tapu and one of NZ’s greatest battles – Te Ika a Ranginui the land unoccupied. Survivors fl ed in several directions and for the next 4 | KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT PLAN November 2016 2.2 THE KAIWAKA TOWNSHIP TODAY 2.3 STATE HIGHWAY 1 (SH 1) State Highways are roads in New Zealand that form a nationally strategic What is the Kaiwaka Township like as a place today? purpose in moving people and goods nationwide.