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The Matakana Community Group (MCG) is continuing to look into the possibility of buying all or part of Matakana Country Park, after its initial bid of $6.25 million was rejected late last year.
MCG chair Simon Barclay said they were now drawing up ideas of how the site might be used so there was something on the table for local people to discuss and for potential investors to consider.
“What we want to do is prepare the concept, talk to people, have community input,” he told the quarterly MCG meeting last month. “It’s not my money and we may or may not be successful, but it warrants a look, and any options will be looked at by the community in due course.
“It’s a lot easier to critique something when there’s something on the table, something that we can maybe take to investors and get feedback on from experienced developers.”
He added that he had met with Auckland Council’s resource consent manager, Ian Dobson, who had been generally sympathetic to the idea of it being community-owned and had provided guidelines on what might or might not be permitted on the site.
Simon Barclay said they would come back to the group with a concepts by the next quarterly meeting in May.
