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The regional parks management plan has passed, with the plan to shift 21 parks into the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park removed.
At the Park, Arts, Community and Events Committee on September 22, members unanimously approved the latest plan to manage Auckland’s 28 regional parks.
Earlier this year, a review on park management proposed moving 21 of the parks into the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park while, at the same time, the Hauraki Gulf Forum was shifting towards co-governance. The proposal was swept into a host of discussions around democracy under co-governance and in the latest management plan, the proposal to shift the 21 parks has been removed. The committee report said co-governance was still under active consideration but sat outside of the plan.
Cr John Watson who raised alarm bells earlier in the year over co-governance in the proposal said the regional parks brought Auckland’s diverse communities together.
“I am certainly pleased to see policy 45 has been removed and now that it has been removed perhaps we can release the legal opinion on that,” Watson said.
The management plan is intended to last for 10 years before its next comprehensive review under the Reserves Act.
