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Hard wood paving cobbles, that were were originally used for roading on the waterfront of Auckland, were in the 70s dumped on the eastern edge of the park in preparation to filling in a ramp that would carry a road through it. Because of Industrial zoning there was an uneasy co-existence between industry and housing. This is alluded to in copies of ''Flash'', the Grey Lynn, Westmere, Newton Community newsletter/newspaper, of the late 70's when the reserve was to the southern edge of a wasteland that was deliberately created to put through the North Western Motorway. |
Hard wood paving cobbles, that were were originally used for roading on the waterfront of Auckland, were in the 70s dumped on the eastern edge of the park in preparation to filling in a ramp that would carry a road through it. Because of Industrial zoning there was an uneasy co-existence between industry and housing. This is alluded to in copies of ''Flash'', the Grey Lynn, Westmere, Newton Community newsletter/newspaper, of the late 70's when the reserve was to the southern edge of a wasteland that was deliberately created to put through the North Western Motorway. |
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In the late 70s, once a vast amount of housing was cleared out, the Auckland City Council moved to extend Upper Queen Street, the main street of the city through Basque Park to Dominion Road. [[Christodoulos Moisa]], an artist and writer who, lived at 11 Fleet Street and was the Chairperson of the [[Newton, New Zealand|Newton]] branch of the Grey Lynn, Westmere and Newton Communities Committee organised a campaign against this move.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christodoulos_Moisa</ref> Enlisting the help of, architect and lecturer at the School of Architecture, Vince Terrini <ref>http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fnzcardindex%2Fsearch.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=NZcardindex&QF0=unique_record_id&NP=2&RF=Display+card+info&QI0=NZCI000034697</ |
In the late 70s, once a vast amount of housing was cleared out, the Auckland City Council moved to extend Upper Queen Street, the main street of the city through Basque Park to Dominion Road. [[Christodoulos Moisa]], an artist and writer who, lived at 11 Fleet Street and was the Chairperson of the [[Newton, New Zealand|Newton]] branch of the Grey Lynn, Westmere and Newton Communities Committee organised a campaign against this move.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christodoulos_Moisa</ref> Enlisting the help of, architect and lecturer at the School of Architecture, Vince Terrini, <ref>http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fnzcardindex%2Fsearch.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=NZcardindex&QF0=unique_record_id&NP=2&RF=Display+card+info&QI0=NZCI000034697</ref> he worked with architecture students to come up with a proposal to save the reserve.<ref>http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/</ref> He took the Auckland City Council to the Town Planning Tribunal where eventually Judge Turner ruled that the connection to Dominion Road should be diverted towards the north, circling around the Reserve. As a result the area has been relegated for inner city housing and the few existing industrial workshops are now in decline. |
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By the end of the last century the Basque Park Reserve is a gentrified enclave and has been extensively landscaped and planted with [[nikau]] palms. This is to the chagrin of some of the locals who had planted a community garden in the area during period when the Auckland City Council did very little maintenance in the area. |
By the end of the last century the Basque Park Reserve is a gentrified enclave and has been extensively landscaped and planted with [[nikau]] palms. This is to the chagrin of some of the locals who had planted a community garden in the area during period when the Auckland City Council did very little maintenance in the area. |
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Basque Park is a north-facing reserve in Eden Terrace, central Auckland the largest city in New Zealand.[1] It is surrounded by Symonds Street, Newton Road, New North Road and the North Western Motorway.
This green area was part of a group of important working class housing suburbs of New Zealand. Based in the most densely housed urban area in the country it served as a recreation area for the suburbs of Arch Hill and newton.
It was left in a bequest to Auckland City Council to be used as a recreation area for those working class families that were crowded in the gully between the Symonds Street and Great North Road ridges during the Depression where Eden Terrace, Arch Hill and Newton suburbs were found.
Hard wood paving cobbles, that were were originally used for roading on the waterfront of Auckland, were in the 70s dumped on the eastern edge of the park in preparation to filling in a ramp that would carry a road through it. Because of Industrial zoning there was an uneasy co-existence between industry and housing. This is alluded to in copies of Flash, the Grey Lynn, Westmere, Newton Community newsletter/newspaper, of the late 70's when the reserve was to the southern edge of a wasteland that was deliberately created to put through the North Western Motorway.
In the late 70s, once a vast amount of housing was cleared out, the Auckland City Council moved to extend Upper Queen Street, the main street of the city through Basque Park to Dominion Road. Christodoulos Moisa, an artist and writer who, lived at 11 Fleet Street and was the Chairperson of the Newton branch of the Grey Lynn, Westmere and Newton Communities Committee organised a campaign against this move.[3] Enlisting the help of, architect and lecturer at the School of Architecture, Vince Terrini, [4] he worked with architecture students to come up with a proposal to save the reserve.[5] He took the Auckland City Council to the Town Planning Tribunal where eventually Judge Turner ruled that the connection to Dominion Road should be diverted towards the north, circling around the Reserve. As a result the area has been relegated for inner city housing and the few existing industrial workshops are now in decline.
By the end of the last century the Basque Park Reserve is a gentrified enclave and has been extensively landscaped and planted with nikau palms. This is to the chagrin of some of the locals who had planted a community garden in the area during period when the Auckland City Council did very little maintenance in the area.
References
<References>
- ^ http://wikimapia.org/15591845/Basque-Park-Reserve
- ^ File:Flash, Auckland, New Zealand, Newsletter Newspaper, Page 2, Issue 9, Page 2, 1978..jpg
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christodoulos_Moisa
- ^ http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fnzcardindex%2Fsearch.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=NZcardindex&QF0=unique_record_id&NP=2&RF=Display+card+info&QI0=NZCI000034697
- ^ http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/