Plans

Mt Smart Stadium Management Plan

The Mt Smart Stadium (Mt Smart (Rarotonga) Domain) Management Plan has been reviewed and was adopted by resolution of the Auckland Regional Council on 30 August 2010.  It is now available for viewing on the council’s web site, or at the Mt Smart Stadium offices.

What is a Management Plan?

The Management Plan is intended to set out the ‘big picture' for managing the Mt Smart Stadium and associated facilities and natural areas. It guides how the facility is managed on a daily basis and into the future. It covers everything that happens at Mt Smart, from managing sport, events and informal recreation to conserving natural and landscape features and supporting community involvement.

What does the new Management Plan contain?

The vision for the stadium is:

‘To promote, maintain and operate Mt Smart Stadium as a venue of international standard for sports, entertainment and community events and informal recreation within an attractive setting where the unique natural, cultural and landscape features are recognised and respected’.

The Management Plan has sections on:

• vision and values
• Introduction (including purpose, history, legislative and policy framework and buildings, facilities and features )
• integrated management
• use, pressures and challenges; and
• objectives and policies.

New policy highlights include:

• implementation of programmes for large events to reduce reliance on transport by private motor vehicles
• the entire area of the Mt Smart Stadium is smokefree
• a ‘no exceptions’ policy to make the stadium more accessible to people with disabilities
• ‘sustainable management’ policy, including energy, water management and waste.

Process to complete the Mt Smart Stadium Management Plan

The intention to review the Management Plan was notified in the NZ Herald on Friday 31 July 2009.  Feedback on the proposed review was sought over a one-month period in August 2009.

A Draft Management Plan was then developed and publicly notified in the New Zealand Herald on 31 March 2010  for a period of two months, with a submission closing date of 28 May 2010.

Six submissions were received from (in order of receipt) the Cancer Society, Malcolm John Roberts, the Auckland Football Federation, Vodafone Warriors,  British American Tobacco and Athletics Auckland Incorporated.

A hearings subcommittee of the Mt Smart Special Committee was established to hear public submissions.   If you made a submission and wish to view the decision made in relation to your submission, please follow the link to the Summary of Submissions and Decisions report which contains a summary of submissions and the recommendations of the sub-committee.