Parks Network Strategy

Background

The Greater Wellington Parks Network Strategy articulates a vision and a purpose for our parks and forests. It will be the overarching framework for their future development and management.

The purpose of the strategy is to:

• Provide guidance to the next generation of policy and planning documents for our regional parks and forests (this is outlined below).
• Provide a basis for promoting the regional parks

Where are we now?

Firstly, we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to the development of the Parks Network Strategy. This includes current and potential parks users that were canvassed via interviews with individuals and a wide range of groups and organisations including government and non-government agencies, Friends of Parks, special interest groups and community sectors.

Greater Wellington has considered feedback, research and background information (see documents on the right), and developed a Parks Network Strategy, which includes the purpose, vision, goals, objectives and guiding principles for regional parks and forests. The draft strategy was adopted formally by Council on 11 November 2009. The draft strategy will now be incorporated into the “one” plan and consulted as part of that combined process.

View the  Parks Network Strategy.

Developing a “one stop plan” for parks and forests

The development of the strategy is part of a process for bringing all of Greater Wellington’s parks and forests management plans into one document. This process has started and will carry through to 2010. Find out more about the parks and forests management plan review.