We’re asking for your feedback on our Draft Signal Hill Reserve Management Plan and its suitability for managing Signal Hill Recreation Reserve. Your feedback is an important part of the plan’s review and will help shape the final document. We will consider your feedback before we finalise the changes.
Why are we reviewing this?
Under the Reserves Act 1977, we’re required to regularly review and update reserve management plans. Our Signal Hill plan is 20 years old.
Timeline
Stage 1 of review
5 Nov - 8 Dec 2020
Stage 1 feedback reviewed
1 Dec - 17 Dec 2021
Stage 2 submissions open
13 May 2024
Stage 2 submissions Close
5pm 15 July 2024
Hearings
20 November 2024
Deliberations and decision
Late 2024
Why do we need a plan for the Signal Hill Reserve?
It will ensure theproper use, development, maintenance, protection and preservation of the reserve. It will allow us to respond to our community’s changing needs and introduce best practice models and trends.
What changes are proposed?
The plan outlines the ways we are proposing to improve the reserve. These include ways to improve recreational opportunities for mountain bikers, walkers, trail runners, runners, orienteers, and the community. Ideas include protecting view shafts and the biodiversity of the reserve by better managing vegetation and tracks to benefit reserve users. We also want to honour the cultural and mana whenua values through interpretation and storytelling projects.
Draft Reserve Management Plan Signal Hill Statement of Proposal
Draft Signal Hill Recreation Reserve Management Plan 2024
Signal Hill Reserve Management Plan 2003
What you told us during Stage 2 of the review
What happens next?
- The submission period is from is from Monday, 13 May 2024 to Monday, 15 July 2024.
- Hearings will be held in September 2024 (if required) and submissions considered
- Parks and Recreation staff will review feedback and prepare the final plan
- The plan will be presented to the Dunedin City Council for approval later in 2024
- If approved, the plan will be implemented over several years when funding becomes available.