Monte Cecilia Park
Introduction |
The master plan |
Background |
Pah Homestead |
History of the land |
Naming the park |
Site characteristics |
Self-guided tour map |
Image gallery
The master plan
The plan |
What it proposes |
Visual displays |
Consultation feedback summary |
Staging and priorities
The plan
Auckland City Council has developed a master plan for Monte Cecilia
Park.
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Monte Cecilia Park master plan (382kb PDF)
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The plan determines a guiding vision for the park including what
makes Monte Cecilia special and distinctive, how to use the Pah Homestead, and
how to develop the park as a citywide destination and manage it to meet the
needs of all Aucklanders, now and in the future.
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Key themes raised by the community, which the designers have used to develop
the master plan, have been:
- conserving the park and homestead as a living slice of Auckland's history
- retaining the park's peaceful character
- exploring uses for arts and culture.
Other issues we must address are the need for more car parking and better bus
access, better access to and within the park, and higher visibility from the
road, with frontage to surrounding roads. We must also ensure
adequate protection and recognition of the connections between key heritage
features, some of which extend beyond the park's current boundaries.
Not all of these issues can be addressed at once, nor can they be adequately
addressed within the park's current 12.65 hectares.
The council has always envisaged increasing the size of the park as
opportunities arise.
Input into the plan was received and considered from:
- the community, through public consultation in 2003, 2006 and 2007
- key stakeholders such as the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and Ngati Whatua o Orakei
- Mt Roskill Community Board
- landscape architects and historians
- heritage architects
- archaeologists
- arborists.
Updated July 2008
