Farming in Belmont began in 1860! Preserve Belmont Farm Park Inc supports waterway restoration while retaining grazing and farming in Belmont Regional Park. We believe farming and environmental restoration can coexist.
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From “Future-proofing farming” (2015) to “Removing farming?” (2020) — what changed?
The Toitū Te Whenua Parks Network Plan 2020–2030, adopted in 2020, was approved without a detailed wildfire risk plan or operational fire assessment being completed beforehand. It was focused on ecology only and did not consider wildfire risk, operational impacts, recreation impacts, and public safety?
gwrc wants 80% of our 1000-ha park to revert to gorse & weeds!
Belmont Regional Park was the first park in New Zealand to combine land for recreation, conservation and farming purposes.
The park is, as stated by GWRC chair Fran Wilde in January 2015, “A new farm hub constructed at Belmont Regional Park will assure the viability of farming on the park into the future and provide a new point of interest for visitors”.
10 points of entrance into Belmont regional park
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map of the PARK
01: petone entrance
02: Maungaraki entrance
03: stratton st entrance
04: normandale entrance
05: belmont entrance
06: kelson entrance
07: HAYWOODS ENTRANCE
08: Pāuatahanui ENTRANCE
09: EAST PORIRUA entrance
10: TAKAPU ROAD entrance
11: HOROKIWI ENTRANCE
This is a image of a previous farm manager with his working dogs. Such amazing views! paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.