Land at Taylors Mistake for city

Press, 28 March 1979, Page 12

Land at Taylors Mistake for city

Land for active recreation on the Taylors Mistake vallev floor has been assured for the Christchurch City Council. About 5.48 hectares (almost 14 acres), below the sealed access road and looping around behind present laches in Rotten Row, will >e vested in the council by he estate of G. D. Greenwood.

Until the paddock land is needed for reserve development, it will be leased back to the owner for continued rural use. The estate has done a 17section residential subdivision on Richmond Hill, and the Taylors Mistake land offer is a way of giving the council that subdivision’s required reserve contribution. But the recreation land was “far in excess” of the present subdivision’s requirements, said the City

Land Surveyor (Mr A. C. Iversen), and would put the developers in credit for future subdivision contributions.

The land is part of a big Recreation 1 zone at Taylors Mistake, which also covers much of the beach and present car-parking area.

A recreation management plan for the sheltered bav and its hinterland, which should be free of baches on the road reserve by the middle of 1986. is being prepared by the council. Development guidelines will be included in that plan. Protection of the area's remaining sand dunes is considered a priority job. In the parks and recreation department’s five-year capital works programme, $50,000 will be spent on Taylors Mistake reserve development between 1980 and 1984.