Draft Town Belt Management Plan - Wellington City Council

1. Te Ahumairangi Hill
2. Kelburn Park
3. Aro Valley
4. Brooklyn Hills
5. Macalister Park
6. Golf Course/Mt Albert
7. Newtown/Crawford Road
8. Hataitai Park
9. Mt Victoria/Matairangi
The general policies need to be read alongside the specific policies for each sector. The sector
policies take precedence over the general policies. The minimum period for review of this
management plan is five years from the date it is adopted.
1.3.1 Coverage of the plan
Objectives and policies in the plan will cover:
• 389.68 hectares held in trust under the Town Belt Deed, and
• 85.4375 hectares of reserve land managed as Town Belt.
See map on page 3 and 6, and Appendix 2.
Policies are not included for the Wellington Botanic Garden or the Wellington Zoo or Wellington
showgrounds (except the artificial turf behind Te Whaea).
Wellington Botanic Garden: In 1839 the New Zealand Company allocated 13 acres of Town
Belt land for a Botanic Garden alongside what is now Glenmore Street.
In 1869 the Botanic Garden Act was passed and management of the garden was entrusted to a
board under the auspices of the New Zealand Institute, the forerunner of the Royal Society of New
Zealand.
In 1891 the Wellington Botanic Garden Vesting Act dissolved the Botanic Garden Board and vested
control in Wellington City Council. Wellington Botanic Garden is not covered by the provisions of
the Town Belt Deed.
The Botanic Garden is classified as Local Purpose Reserve (Botanic Garden) under the Reserves
Act 1977 and managed under the Combined Management Plan (Wellington Botanic Garden,
Anderson Park, Bolton Street Memorial Park (2002).
Wellington Zoo: The Zoological Garden, established in 1906, sits on land managed in trust by
the Council under the Town Belt Deed. It is an accepted historic use within the Town Belt. The zoo
operation is now managed under the Wellington Zoo Trust Deed (2003).
Wellington showgrounds: In 1959 5.223 ha of land in Hutchinson Road was suspended from
the Town Belt Deed by the Wellington City Exhibition Act. If this Act is repealed or the lease
terminates, the showground land will automatically return to Town Belt management.
Since 2010, the Council-managed area known as Te Whaea artificial sportsfield has been removed
from the Premises Management Lease for the showgrounds. This area will be managed as part of
the Town Belt.
Road reserve that adjoins Town Belt land managed under this management plan will be
managed in a consistent manner with the objectives and policies of this plan.
Chest Hospital: The former Chest Hospital land (Chest Hospital) and buildings were transferred
at no cost to the Council in December 2002 by the Capital & Coast District Health Board. The
acquisition was consistent with the Town Belt Reinstatement Policy 1998.
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