Waitangi Park

A modern (2008) urban green with style, innovation, eco features, access and kids interests all integrated. An imaginative children's playground and Skate Boarding facilities are very popular and Plywood panels intended for graffiti have served their purpose.
A feature of the park is its "urban wetland", designed to filter and cleanse the Waitangi stream, which for years had run in a culvert, and is now bought back to the surface. Tree plantings are now reaching maturity providing shade though little break from the wind. A tree-lined promenade parallel to Cable Street edges the park.
The design was the result of a competition won by Athfield Architects in a joint-venture with Wraight and Associates Ltd and is considered to bea benchmark for sustainable landscape design