Draft Town Belt Management Plan - Wellington City Council

Table 5: Town Belt additions, removals and boundary rationalisation – Macalister Park sector
Site name
Wellington
Legal description and
area
Show
The land is owned by the
Association Council, described as Lot 4
site
DP 10337, CT 46D/917.
Wallace
Street land
Reserve land
at Travers
Street and
Finnimore
Terrace
120 .
These three areas are defined
as:
Lot 5 DP 10337, comprising
0.2003ha
Lot 6 DP 10337, comprising
0.1050ha
Part Lot 7 DP 10337,
comprising 0.1185ha.
As all three lots are defined
in CT 46D/917 and this title
is subject to the Town Belt
Deed, this land is therefore
legally Town Belt.
The land is described as:
Lots 445, 446 & 447, DP
9808, CT 559/64,
comprising 0.2727ha,
Recreation Reserve, NZ
Gazette 1995 page 2438.
Lot 448, DP 9808, CT
549/96, comprising
0.0918ha, Recreation
Reserve, NZ Gazette 1995
page 2438.
Lots 449 & 450, DP 9808, CT
489/262, comprising
0.1999ha, Recreation
Reserve, NZ Gazette 1995
page 2438.
Closed Street as shown on
SO Plan 23070, CT 624/38,
comprising 0.1678ha,
Recreation Reserve, NZ
Gazette 1995 page 2438.
Description, location, current use Previous policy Discussion, criteria
assessment
This land is located between Hutchison The Town Belt Management Approximately 2.1111 ha of this
Road, John Street and Hanson Street. It Plan (TBMP) 1995, part 2, page land (This included the Te Whaea
is 5.2230 ha and was taken for the 21, states that “In the event of Artificial sports field) has now
Wellington City Exhibitions Grounds by the showgrounds use
been returned to management
the Wellington City Exhibitions
terminating, to integrate under the Town Belt Deed.
Grounds Act 1927 (WCEA) (see now the management of the Wellington
1959 Act). The land is still owned by Showgrounds site with that of
Council. Part is leased by the
Wellington Show Association, which
subleases part to Premises Management
Trust for the New Zealand Dance and
Drama School. This land is part of the
Town Belt, but the provisions of the
Town Belt Deed are suspended under
the WCEA 1959.
the adjacent Town belt”.
Three small pockets of Town Belt land
at the corner of Hanson and John
streets, and to each side of the
Hutchison Road/Wallace Street
intersection, have been isolated from
the main Town Belt by road alienations.
A neighbourhood playground has been
developed on one of the sites.
This is Council-owned Recreation
Reserve land at the southern end of
Finnimore Terrace and off Travers
Street, Vogeltown. The land is adjacent
to Macalister Park Reservoir at 93
Liardet Street.
The TBMP, 1995 considers these
areas anomalies in terms of
Town Belt management and
proposes that they be made road
reserve.
The land described above is
identified as a potential addition
to the Town Belt in the Town
Belt Management Plan. (Area 6A
TBMP 1995, part 1, page 16).
Draft Town Belt Management Plan October 2012
These three areas contribute to the
greening of this area. A
community playground has been
established on the larger of the
three areas.
This land connects with existing
Town Belt land and is effectively
managed as such. It is original
Town Belt and now has Recreation
Reserve status. The landscape and
vegetation is consistent with
adjoining Town Belt land.
Recommendation Land covered
by this TBMP
In the event of the
3.1119 ha is not
showgrounds use
managed under
terminating, the
this plan but the
management of the
2.1111 ha of Te
Wellington Showgrounds Whaea Artificial
site should be integrated
with that of the adjacent
Town Belt.
is.
These areas should be
retained as Town Belt. No
action required.
The land, described as Lots
445-450 DP 9808 and
Closed Street SO Plan
23070, should be added to
the Town Belt.
Yes, currently
Town Belt.
Yes