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Mission Bay bowling club facility
​(Tagalad Reserve)

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Open Day
12pm-2pm Saturday 14 May
Check it out, exchange ideas, coffee, icecream, donuts, kids activities

Can we turn this land into a Community centre and garden?

The bowling club closed some years ago, but it leaves a very valuable piece of land and high quality buildings that we believe would best be utilised as a community centre and garden.  We see that with increasing intensification of Mission Bay, there will be more and more people living closer together, many without access to any outdoor space.  That will create increasing demand for public green space.  In this context, selling any existing public land for further apartment development would seem to be short-sighted and foolish, and yet that is exactly what Auckland Council, through their property arm Panuku, are planning to do with the bowling club land.
We believe that a much better idea is to retain it in public ownership, using the existing buildings as a community centre, and converting the grounds to a community garden.  This would be a quiet family park, with play areas for children, gardens for the elderly, picnic areas for families, and utilising the existing buildings as a community centre for a range of local groups.  This park would specifically cater to locals and would be a counterpoint to the busy active Selwyn Reserve that caters to visitors from all over Auckland.
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Panuku intends to sell the land, but will have to undertake public consultation.  This was intended for November 2019, but seems to have been shelved.  We are preparing plans for an alternative use so that we are able to present a well thought-out alternative to convince Auckland Council that this public asset should be retained for the long term benefit of the community.

Site meeting with Auckland Council Parks and Places

27/4/2021

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On 18 March Wanda Mountfort and Don Stock from the Residents Association met with David Barker and ​Jacqui Thompson Fell from Auckland Council's Parks and Places to discuss how to progress our proposal. They were very receptive to our ideas, although did raise a few concerns. They will be meeting with the Orakei Local Board in a workshop to clarify their position. We should hear back by early May. After that, we should have a much clearer idea of how we need to proceed to make this happen.

​We are planning a public meeting to update the community on this project on 18 May. Details including the venue and time will be advised later.

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    • Mission Bay 8 storey development
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