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3 Partnership and community participation The Mayor, Councillors and Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust members at the opening of Te Ahumairangi Hill lookout 3. Partnership and community participation The Town Belt is an essential part of what people recognise to be characteristically ‘Wellington’. It is important to Wellingtonians and visitors, whether they visit the Town Belt or not. The Council recognises that it governs 3 the Town Belt in trust for the people of Wellington. The Council will work in partnership with mana whenua and the wider community to involve them in the ongoing management 4 of the Town Belt. 3.1 Partnership with mana whenua Guiding principle The Council will work in partnership with mana whenua to manage the Town Belt. This recognises that mana whenua will have an ongoing role in the management of the Town Belt, consistent with our current relationship. 3 Governance involves setting the strategic direction for matters involving the Town Belt and ensuring there are funds for implementation. 4 Management means carrying out the governance decisions Draft Town Belt Management Plan October 2012 21
The Waitangi Tribunal found that at 1840 the iwi groups that had take raupatu 4 , or rights of conquest over all the lands within the Port Nicholson block were: Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Ruanui, Taranaki, Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. However, the Tribunal also found that these iwi each had their own ahi kā 5 over particular areas as follows: 22 • Te Ātiawa at Te Whanganui ā Tara and parts of the south-west coast • Taranaki and Ngāti Ruanui at Te Aro • Ngāti Tama at Kaiwharawhara and environs, and parts of the south-west coast • Ngāti Toa at parts of the south-west coast From 1840, when the first New Zealand Company ships began to arrive at Port Nicholson (Wellington), conflict quickly escalated between local Māori (mana whenua) and new settlers. Land inhabited by mana whenua was invalidly ‘purchased’ by the New Zealand Company and sold to settlers. As settler numbers increased, mana whenua were forcibly displaced and their lands taken – including that area of land now known as the Town Belt. Following their initial displacement and the subsequent loss of almost all their land, mana whenua struggled to obtain the return of their lands through legal means eg McCleverty Award. For more than 150 years little progress was made to resolve the grievances of mana whenua and address the historical deprivation they had experienced. This changed in 2003, following the release of the Waitangi Tribunal report Te Whanganui ā Tara me ōna Takiwā on the Wellington District. In this report, the Tribunal concluded that serious breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi by the Crown occurred in the Port Nicholson Block, and in particular: “The Tribunal finds that the Crown, in taking most of the Town Belt land from Māori without their consent or any consultation, and without making any payment, acted in breach of article 2 of the Treaty and failed to respect the rangatiratanga of Māori in and over their land.” The Tribunal recommended that representatives of these groups enter into negotiation with the Crown to settle these grievances. Following the publication of the 2003 report, the Crown entered into negotiations with the claimants representing the descendants of tūpuna of Te Ātiawa, Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāti Tama. The Crown mandated claimant collective was named Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika. After six years of negotiation, the Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009 came into force on 2 September 2009 following a signing between the Crown and representatives of Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika. The Crown are currently negotiating with Ngati Toa for the settlement of their claims in relation to the Port Nicholson Block. The Crown also found that in regards to Ngati Toa the Crown failed to act reasonably and in good faith and failed to protect the customary interests of Ngati Toa in and over the Port Nicholson block. At present, Wellington City Council’s relationship with mana whenua 6 is managed through Memoranda of Understanding (MOU’s) with the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Incorporated. Mana whenua have indicated that they wish to be more involved in the future management of the Town Belt. 4 Take raupatu refers to rights associated with conquest and is described as interests in: “…a wider area in which a group had more general rights by virtue of having participated in the conquest of that area, provided the group had sufficient strength to sustain those rights.” 5 Ahi kā refers to non-contestable rights associated with occupation and is described as interests in: “…those areas which a group resided on or cultivated, or where it enjoyed the continuing use of the surrounding resources, provided such occupation or use was not successfully challenged by other Māori groups. Ahi kā is used in the report only in respect of those areas where a group had established non-contestable rights…” 6 Mana whenua means customary authority exercised by an iwi or hapu in an identified area. Draft Town Belt Management Plan October 2012
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Sector 1 - Te Ahumairangi Hill Land
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Table 1: Town Belt land additions,
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Kelburn Park is mainly used for for
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8.2.3 Landscape and ecological mana
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Sector 2 - Kelburn Park Landscape a
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8.3 Sector 3 Aro Valley/Polhill Gul
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8.3.2.2 Formally remove from the To
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Sector 3 - Aro Valley / Polhill Gul
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8.4.2 Land additions and boundary r
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• Wellington Renouf Tennis Centre
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Mitchell St Sector 3 Aro Valley/ Po
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Open ridgetops and spurs Native for
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8.5 Sector 5 Macalister Park 8.5.1
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A more unifying cohesive vegetation
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8.6 Sector 6 Golf Course/Mt Albert
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8.6.3 Landscape and ecological mana
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Newtown Park in the 1890s (S C Smit
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Sector 6 - Golf Course / Mt Albert
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Sector 6 - Golf Course / Mt Albert
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8.7 Sector 7 Newtown/Crawford Road
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conditions agreed with the Crown. P
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The sector is a highly visible ‘g
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College St Te Aro Cambridge Tce Ell
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Sector 8 - Hataitai Park Landscape
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Table 8: Town Belt additions and bo
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Town Belt between Mount Victoria an
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8.9.4 Recreation Mt Victoria is mai
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9.2.6. Manage and maintain discreti
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9.5.2 Signs 176 a. No signs or hoar
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178 (i) no practicable alternative
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180 Encroachments into the Town Bel
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182 encroachments, botanical enhanc
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Appendix 1 Town Belt and Basin Rese
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thereby granted which may be reason
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Appendix 2 Land Schedules Land cove
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Land protected under the 1873 Town
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Name & Location Area Comprised in D
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left to lie fallow. The garden area
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Moera: Moe-ra (Moe-i-ra 54 or Moe-i
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Waitangi Tribunal, Te Whanganui ā
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iii. Best, E, Journal of the Polyne
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Appendix 4 Town Belt historical out
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aesthetic possibilities of the “r
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uilding leases grew, prompting the
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Resource use To many of the early s
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Other communications uses have incl
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5. Citizen action The Town Belt has
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