Auckland Council is investing $2.45 million in upgrading Ōrewa Holiday Park over the next three years. Planned work includes renewing 14 cabins and rebuilding both amenities blocks.
Also over the next three years, there are $2.76m-worth of planned improvements for Shakespear Regional Park, including a new accommodation facility. This will not cater for the general public – it will provide bunk rooms for use by volunteers, interns, contractors or researchers whose work supports the regional park and open sanctuary. There is a similar facility at Tawharanui.
The Shakespear project also includes replacing the old office and workshop that was formerly in Te Haruhi Bay before it was flooded and condemned several years ago. The workshop is the first priority as the ranger and volunteers have been operating out of containers and portocom buildings.
New park for Ōrewa
A new neighbourhood park in Harvest Ave Ōrewa, near Ōrewa Primary, is budgeted to cost $525,000. The local community will be asked what they would like the new park to include, after which a design will be created and consents obtained. Construction is expected to begin next July, and take a full year.
