Draft Town Belt Management Plan - Wellington City Council

9.2.6. Manage and maintain discretion over all activities to ensure the safety of park users.
9.2.7. Guide balanced decision-making when assessing potentially conflicting activities and/or
when assessing effects of activity on the range of Town Belt values.
9.3 Allowed activities
9.3.1 These are activities that are generally ‘allowed’ or anticipated in the Town Belt, but that may
be subject to restrictions in order to protect park values and provide for the health, safety
and wellbeing of visitors.
9.3.2 The following activities by individuals or groups are permitted for non-commercial
purposes and may be subject to certain conditions and temporary restrictions:
• walking
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• running
• organised sport on a sport and recreation park – subject to formal booking with Parks
and Gardens
• sightseeing
• picnics, barbecues (gas only), informal gatherings and group games and other similar
activities are allowed and some facilities provided, but restrictions may apply to some
locations or conditions (refer to 9.3.3)
• informal games
• painting, photography and filming 41
• wildlife spotting
• nature trails
• orienteering
• cycling and mountain biking on designated and shared tracks
• dog walking (on leash unless in specified off leash area, refer to the Council’s Dog
Policy)
• firewood collection. Dead wood on the floor of exotic forest only may be taken by the
public for firewood (except in the Botanic Garden and the zoo). Collection may be
subject to restrictions around health and safety of collectors and other park users, and
around the ecological values of dead wood. The wood must be collected by hand and
must not result in any damage to the park or park infrastructure.
• access for park management, emergency vehicles and as identified in the sector plans
• earthworks for the construction or maintenance of walking or cycling tracks where the
track surface does not exceed 1.5m wide and the work is carried out by or with the
permission of the Council. Sedimentation is managed within 25 metres of streams.
9.3.3 In order to protect the park, the environment, the health, safety and wellbeing of other
users and to facilitate park operations, restrictions may be placed on allowed activities. The
following is a guide of potential issues that may result in restrictions:
a. group size (up to 30 people is generally considered allowed, subject to assessment of
the impact of what the group is doing)
41 Non-commercial filming that is anything other than a home video type activity is a managed activity. The need for
commercial photography to obtain landowner approval will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, primarily considering
the impact of the activity.
Draft Town Belt Management Plan October 2012