Draft Town Belt Management Plan - Wellington City Council

a. spreading of ashes or placenta
b. construction of private dwellings or landscaping
c. all mining activities
d. commercial resource harvesting
e. permanent private vehicle access
f. firearms and weapons use (with the exception of ceremonial events at Point
Jerningham, or as specified in a lease, or as approved for police training)
g. fireworks and/or amplified sound (not associated with an approved event)
h. use of trail bikes
i. hunting
j. use of a chainsaw
k. golf (except as identified in the sector plans in relation to the Berhampore Golf Course)
l. horses
m. keeping of pets or livestock (including but not limited to chickens, pigs, sheep and
cattle)
n. open fires (except as approved by permit for special events).
9.6.9 Encroachments. Encroachments into the Town Belt are a significant issue for the
management of the reserve. The use of public reserve land by private property owners
effectively alienates the public from use or enjoyment of that land 45 . This is contrary to both
the Town Belt Deed and the purpose of provision of public open space.
Due to the location of the Town Belt, contained within the fabric of Wellington’s urban and
suburban development, the pressure on the edges of the Town Belt continues to increase.
The cumulative effect of encroachments (even those that seem very minor if considered in
isolation) results in considerable reductions of public open space in the city and the
potential values of that open space are compromised.
There are 206 known encroachments on the Town Belt covering 2.5626ha as of June 2012.
These are broken down as follows:
• 77 gardens/lawns and or plantings
• 13 partial house encroachments
• 8 pedestrian access-ways
• 69 structures such as clotheslines, garden sheds, compost bins and so on
• 35 vehicle accesses from parking places through to larger access routes, such as
Carmichael Reservoir.
The Town Belt is recognised as a unique and very valuable area of open space in Wellington
and requires protection against encroachment.
9.6.9.1 Encroachments are a prohibited activity.
9.6.9.2 The Council will resolve the existing encroachments with a view to regaining lost
land.
9.6.9.3 The Council will protect the Town Belt from new encroachments.
45 Use and enjoyment may be indirect or indirect. Examples of indirect use and enjoyment include tourist revenue from
having a Town Belt, views of open space or ecological value of vegetation.
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