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The first phase of a walk and cycling path in Jubilee Park Matakana will start just as soon as the weather improves.
In 2020, a five-year lease between the Matakana Pony Club and the Rodney Local Board was negotiated for shared use within the park. A 3400sqm area behind the tennis courts has been set aside for community use and the new gravel path will form a loop around this community use area. The path will be 350 metres long and three metres wide.
Matakana Community Group committee member Ivan Wagstaff says the pathway should also help with access for pony club members’ vehicles and horse floats.
The much larger full loop track, which will follow the complete perimeter of the park, is still some years away, he says.
Funding for the $27,000 project was raised by the Matakana Community Group over several years, with Wagstaff admitting Covid restrictions had made it hard to keep up community enthusiasm for projects.
Planting has also been underway along the perimeter of the park, and Wagstaff was particularly pleased with 10 large trees donated by Takana Nursery. While Auckland Council had also supplied some small trees, some of these had not survived through last summer, he says.
