Historic Horticulture

North Shore City has a long history of commercial market gardens, orchards and glasshouses and council keeps records of this activity to help indicate the location of soils used for horticultural activities prior to 1975.

You can read about North Shore City’s rich horticultural history and council’s testing and mapping of these sites, and discover how to find out about previous activities on a site that are not contained within the property LIM report.  You can also download health information regarding exposure to soil contaminants, as well as protocols regarding site investigations and soil sampling.

For 1963 aerial photographs showing the location of historic horticultural activities click on the 'Historic Horticulture' GIS viewer under 'Find It' on the right hand side of this page.