Mangere Town Centre Historic Heritage Survey
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MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY PREPARED FOR AUCKLAND COUNCIL BY MATTHEWS & MATTHEWS ARCHITECTS LTD IN ASSOCIATION WITH CLOUGH & ASSOCIATES LTD JP ADAM RA SKIDMORE URBAN DESIGN LTD NOVEMBER 2013 MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY 2013 Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 Brief 4 1.2 The study area 5 1.3 Methodology and approach 5 1.4 Acknowledgements 5 1.5 Report Structure 7 2.0 SUMMARY OF HISTORIC HERITAGE ISSUES 9 2.1 Built heritage: Overview and recommendations 9 2.2 Urban design: Overview and recommendations 11 2.3 Geology: Overview and recommendations 11 2.4 Archaeology: Overview and recommendations 12 2.5 Landscape history: Overview and recommendations 12 2.6 Māori ancestral relationships and issues: Overview and recommendations 13 APPENDICES 15 APPENDIX 1: HISTORIC THEMATIC OVERVIEW APPENDIX 2: BUILT HISTORIC HERITAGE Appendix 2.1 Currently scheduled historic heritage places Appendix 2.2 Places prioritised for research APPENDIX 3: URBAN DESIGN SUMMARY APPENDIX 4: GEOLOGY APPENDIX 5: ARCHAEOLOGY APPENDIX 6: LANDSCAPE HISTORY APPENDIX 7: MĀORI ANCESTRAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH MĀNGERE- ŌTAHUHU: AN OVERVIEW 3 MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY 2013 • Investigate the local history, based on 1.0 INTRODUCTION an understanding of key themes in its development. 1.1 Brief • Consider the area holistically and use research, analysis and field surveys to This is a historic heritage survey of the assess archaeological sites; special Māngere town centre. The aim is to provide character and design context; sites of research, analysis and recommendations for: significance to Māori; natural landscape including geology and open space, • historic heritage places and areas parks and gardens.2 • special character • Seek to identify heritage values through • the natural landscape/geology consultation with mana whenua and the • archaeology community3. • landscapes of heritage interest • Provide an evidence base to inform • Māori heritage. Auckland Council plans, policies and decisions. This includes using the evaluation criteria in the Unitary Plan for The findings will inform three Auckland Council scheduling significant historic heritage projects: places and special character areas. • Include recommendations that will • The Auckland Council Interim Guidance positively influence local ‘place shaping’ on Historic Heritage Surveys. This will be activities. This includes regulatory and the template for future surveys across non-regulatory tools. Auckland. • The preparation of the Auckland Council 2. Provide high-quality, detailed feedback Unitary Plan. This will include objectives on the draft HHAA Interim Guidance, and policies that will shape the future of including strengths, weaknesses and this area, a schedule of significant historic recommended changes to the text or heritage places, and special character illustrations. overlays. • The Auckland Council Māngere-Ōtāhuhu 3. Assist Auckland Council consultation Area Plan. This shows how the area with the local board, mana whenua and could change over the next 30 years and the community, to raise awareness and will help deliver the Auckland Plan. encourage collaboration. The scope of this study is to: This includes recommended education and outreach products (e.g. local history 1. Survey the town centre to improve leaflets, heritage trails, interpretation understanding of its historic heritage, panels, workshops, online resources). and make recommendations for its management. This should meet the requirements in the HHS Interim Guidance for a Detailed (level 3) HHS1, including: 1 Level 3 HHSs require systematic documentary research, including primary research and assessment of individual places. Fieldwork is carried out on foot, based on external observation of the whole area and supplemented by more detailed inspection of potentially significant places. Level 3 HHSs are most suitable for areas that have a complex development history or where assessment of individual places is required. As a minimum, Level 3 HHSs assess the historic heritage significance of places and areas, 2 Identifying and evaluating individual trees for potential making use of the evaluation criteria in the Unitary Plan for scheduling was outside the scope of the study, but trees inclusion in the historic heritage schedule or overlay. This were noted during field work. is to provide the evidence base for inclusion in the Unitary 3 Maori history and sites of significance were investigated Plan. as part of this report. 4 MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY 2013 1.2 The study area The defined area includes the area bound by George Bolt Memorial Drive, the Southwestern Motorway and Massey Road. (See map, Figure 1.) 1.3 Methodology and approach The survey builds on work done for Manukau City Council in 2010, when the Māngere Town Centre Heritage Assessment report was prepared by Matthews & Matthews Architects Ltd, historian Tania Mace and geologist Bruce Hayward of Geomarine Ltd. Additional work for this (2013) survey includes: • Archaeology: Clough & Associates • Māori ancestral relationships: historian Graeme Murdoch, in consultation with mana whenua • Landscape history: John P Adam • Urban design analysis: R A Skidmore Urban Design Ltd. The 2010 report summarised historic places (built heritage) already scheduled in Māngere, and other places of potential interest. Further information has been gathered on some places in Māngere town centre. A more detailed evaluation of the homestead at 159-161 Robertson Road includes a recommendation for scheduling. Base information for a range of other places may help with interpretive information. Landscape historian John P Adam has done research, and field surveys of parks and reserves. 1.4 Acknowledgements The assistance of the Māngere Historical Society is gratefully acknowledged. 5 MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY 2013 Figure 1: Māngere town centre study area. 6 MANGERE TOWN CENTRE HISTORIC HERITAGE SURVEY 2013 1.5 Report structure provides a brief history of the early study of the volcanoes in Māngere, and detailed This report is set out in parts as follows: information about the five nearest volcanoes: Māngere Mountain, Māngere Lagoon, Appendix 1 HISTORIC THEMATIC Waitomokia, Pukaki and Crater Hill. OVERVIEW Appendix 5 ARCHAEOLOGY This is a summary of the historic development of Māngere town centre, based on themes Appendix 5 includes an archaeological that have influenced its development. assessment of Ōtahuhu and the town centre, by Clough & Associates. This was prepared in 2010 by historian Tania Mace in association with Matthews & Research and targeted field investigations Matthews Architects. It was based on broad were carried out to understand sites recorded research, including investigation of early land in the Cultural Heritage Inventory (CHI), survey and subdivision maps, published archaeological sites recorded in the NZAA histories and a diverse range of documents. In ArchSite database and any known areas of 2010 historian Lisa Truttman researched the archaeological investigation. Study of historic pattern of land subdivisions. maps and survey plans identified sites of potential sensitivity. The overview helps to understand historic heritage places and areas in context, and is No archaeological sites are recorded and the the basis for the more detailed research and archaeological potential of the study area is investigations. considered low. Appendix 2 BUILT HISTORIC HERITAGE Appendix 6 LANDSCAPE HISTORY This sets out further research and investigation Landscape historian John Adam reviewed the of places of interest. Development in the study historic development of the landscape. area is comparatively recent. In the 1960s work began on substantial state housing, Māngere remained a largely farming incorporating schools, parks and reserves and community for the first half of the 20th century, the shopping centre. with pockets of housing alongside farms. But through the 1960s and early 1970s it was An overview of the issues affecting built transformed into a mainly residential area. heritage and key recommendations follows. Although the state housing plan had allocated Matthews & Matthews Architects did the a generous amount of land for parks, several 4 research, assisted by historian Lisa Truttman. new parks were developed later. Small ‘link’ reserves, forming walkways, were a feature of Appendix 2 includes: the scheme. Appendix 2.1 Places where further detailed Based on research and survey work, a record research and assessment has been done. sheet has been made for each park/reserve/ open space identified in the brief. The sheets summarise historic research and physical Appendix 3 URBAN DESIGN ANALYSIS evidence from field investigations in late 2012. Some reserves have management plans, but Appendix 3 is a brief urban design analysis, the information about particular reserves is prepared by R A Skidmore Urban Design. It variable. summarises the existing urban character and the opportunities. Each sheet has a map, brief history and description. Appendices include sources of Appendix 4 GEOLOGY information, copies of photos and research data. This includes an overview of geological heritage in Māngere. The report was prepared The report also notes some historic by Bruce W Hayward, Geomarine Research, descriptions of places and landscapes. They as part of the 2010 study. It describes Auckland’s volcanoes, including their eruptive 4 styles and types of volcanic landforms. It ‘Mangere Development Scheme Comprehensive Layout Plan’,