Wards and Communities in Manukau

Wards and Communities in Manukau

Manukau City was formed in 1965 and is one of New Zealand’s youngest cities.  The city however contains one of New Zealand’s oldest settled areas.

 

Manukau City covers 55,387 hectares of land, of which 54% or 29,626 hectares are classified as rural. Manukau has more than 3,200 hectares of open space including over 400 parks, 90 civic areas, and 150 kilometres of esplanade.  This is in addition to the 3,600 hectares of regional parks in the city.  Furthermore, there is approximately 382 kilometres of coastline in Manukau.

Manukau is divided into seven wards and eight communities (each having a community board).  The eight community boards are:

 

  • Botany
  • Clevedon
  • Howick
  • Mangere
  • Manurewa
  • Otara
  • Pakuranga
  • Papatoetoe

 

Each community board has five elected board members (except for Manurewa, which has six), and every board has an allocated number of ward councillors.  Members of the public are welcome to attend the board meetings, which take place once a month.

 

The community board has the following functions and responsibilities:

 

  • Provides a link between the council and the community
  • Advises the council on community responses on specific matters
  • Undertakes appropriate local initiatives
  • Provides input into a range of council matters such as community consultation, official openings and town centre development
  • Allocates council expenditure on street works, street trees, lighting, beautification and signage, parks and local grants
  • Approves events, the location of buildings and signage in parks, and the removal or pruning of  trees on council land
  • Approves traffic constraints and controls, parking restrictions on streets and public car parks, and pedestrian crossings
  • Determines objections to the locations of bus shelters, appeals to general bylaws, litter issues and barking dogs
  • Undertakes notified resource consent hearings
  • Provides input into the matters referred to the board from the council including community consultation, district plan and resource consent issues and town centre redevelopment.

 

A couple of websites of interest to communities may be  http://www.phase2.org/  and http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz