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Draft Management Plan for Centennial Park, Campbells Bay In July 2007 North Shore City Council notified it’s intention to review the Reserve Management Plan for Centennial Park, Campbells Bay and sought suggestions on the review of that plan. A Draft Management Plan has now been prepared. Interested persons are invited under s.41 Reserves Act 1977 to lodge written objections or comments on the draft plan. Executive Summary
This management plan provides a policy framework for the ongoing management and limited development of Centennial Park. It aims to achieve an integrated approach to the management and
enhancement of the resource, to meet, where possible, the needs of a growing and diverse community, This plan is effectively a review of the previous management plan prepared for the park in 1997. The drivers behind this review were the need to confirm the ongoing management of plant species in the park and to update the plan to reflect current use and development proposals. The plan seeks to ensure the particular qualities which make the park such a notable natural asset are not compromised and these qualities are safeguarded for future generations. The park provides a unique environment for active sports through the leases to the Pupuke Golf Club and the Campbells Bay Tennis Club. The plan recognises the potential for some enhancement to the facilities provided by these clubs. For the past ten years or so the golf club has had plans to redevelop areas of the golf course. This includes the realignment and recontouring of fairways, constructing new greens, and developing a practise area and two new ponds on the course. The tennis club has recently resurfaced its No.1 and 2 courts and are seeking the removal of some of the pines adjacent to these courts as leaf litter and shade continue to be an issue and will likely affect these new surfaces. The granting of a new lease to the Mairangi Bay Playcentre sited on the northern corner of the park is also contemplated in the plan. There is wide community interest in the management of the large informal area of the park that is predominantly regenerating indigenous forest and shrubland. Exotic plant species, however, have historically been an important part of the park’s amenity and landscape value. Exotic species will remain a feature in designated parts of the park, where these species have been determined to be non-invasive. A resource consent granted to the Centennial Park Bush Society for the removal of pine, acmena and
wattle from the park has been a contentious issue. Council commissioned an independent ecologist to
assess the invasiveness of plant species in the park. The findings of this assessment have validated
council’s position on supporting the resource consent application. However, the report has also notes
the need to manage a number of other exotic plants species in the park that are naturalising or invasive. The plan highlights the need for a tree management programme to be implemented for the golf course land. The age and condition of a number of trees in this area presents a health and safety risk and there is a need to renew and diversify the tree population to maintain and enhance the landscape character of this very visibly prominent area of Campbells Bay. There is currently a track system through the informal area of the park that has been developed over the
years predominantly by the Centennial Park Bush Society. The Society proposes the development of a
new track through an area of the golf course which would require the bridging of the northern branch of
the Campbells Bay Stream. This would provide a connection between Kowhai Road and the top of Park To support recreational opportunities in the park there will be continued limited provision of facilities,
such as seating, picnic tables, rubbish bins, dog litter bag containers, signage and interpretation. Over
the past few years the internal road, now known as Morton Way, has been resurfaced and this included
the provision of improved parking along the sides of the road. The plan does not contemplate any
further parking areas being provided in the park, with the exception of the extension of the existing golf Stormwater is an issue affecting the park. While this is discussed in the plan it will be managed through other council processes and documentation. A stormwater catchment management plan is programmed for the Campbells Bay catchment in 2009. Submissions, close on Friday 19 June 2008 at 4.30pm. Submissions should be in writing and addressed to Richard Hughes at the address below. Please advise whether you wish to speak to your submission at the reserve management plan hearing. For further information please phone Richard Hughes, Policy Advisor, Parks Department on 486 8600 ext 7344. email richard.hughes@northshorecity.govt.nz For further information, please contact Actionline on:
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