Wellington Town Belt Management Plan (June 2018) (13.5MB PDF) | Text version (87.4MB RTF)
Contents
Introduction
- The Town Belt Concepts
- What is the Wellington Town Belt?
- The Wellington Town Belt Management Plan
- Key guiding policies and plans
Wellington Town Belt legislative and policy framework
- How is the Wellington Town Belt managed?
- Wellington Town Belt principles
- Wellington Town Belt legal status
- Wellington Town Belt Protection and Enhancement
- Policies
- Wellington Town Belt alienations
- Reinstatement policy in the 1995 Management Plan and 1998 Reinstatement Policy
- The Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009
- Proposed approach to Wellington Town Belt additions
Partnership and community participation
- Partnership and community participation
- Partnership with mana whenua
- Community participation
Landscape
- Objectives
- Policies
- The Wellington Town Belt landscape
Ecology
- Objectives
- Policies
- Historic ecosystems
- Wellington Town Belt ecology today
- Issues and opportunities
Recreation
- Objectives
- Policies
- Recreation role of the Wellington Town Belt
- Existing recreational activities
- Informal activities
- Sporting infrastructure
Culture and History
- Objectives
- Policies
- Traditional history
- Historical outline of the development of the Wellington Town Belt
- Sites of interest and historic significance
Management Sectors
- Sector 1 – Te Ahumairangi Hill
- Sector 2 – Kelburn Park
- Sector 3 – Aro Valley/Polhill Gully
- Sector 4 – Brooklyn Hills
- Sector 5 – Macalister Park
- Sector 6 – Golf Course/Mt Albert
- Sector 7 – Newtown/Crawford Road
- Sector 8 – Hataitai Park
- Sector 9 – Mt Victoria/Matairangi
Rules for use and development
- Objective
- Policies
- Allowed activities
- Managed activities
- Decision-making guidelines
- Prohibited activities
- Wellington City District Plan
Appendix 1 – Town Belt and Basin Reserve Deed 1873
Appendix 2 – Wellington Town Belt Act 2016
Appendix 3 – Land Schedules
Land covered by the Wellington Town Belt Management Plan
Appendix 4 – Town Belt traditional history
Appendix 5 – Town Belt Historical Outline
- Origins and governance: a brief chronology
- Public recreation ground
- The Wellington Botanic Garden
- The Wellington Zoological Gardens
- A green belt
- Other purposes and pressures on the Town Belt
- Citizen action
- References
Appendix 6 – Process to assess applications for landowner approval on
- Town Belt
- Process for Landowner approval to use Town Belt
- Checklist to assess applications to use Town Belt
Appendix 7 – Achievements of the 1995 Town Belt Management Plan