Local board says no to Tomarata park plan

The lake reserves will remain as local parks. Photo, Auckland Council Plans to make three popular freshwater lakes part of Te Ārai Regional Park have been rejected by Rodney Local Board members. Auckland Council recommended that the Ngāroto Lakes reserves – Tomarata, Slipper and Spectacle Lakes – be moved out of local board management to council’s by adding them to its regional park network. However, despite Rodney Local Board initiating the original investigation process last May and council staff finding that the lakes would be ideal for the switch, members voted to keep the reserves as loca...