26 September 2025
File Ref: IRC-8942
Brooklyn Bear
[FYI request #32015 email]
Tēnā koe Brooklyn Bear
Thank you for your email dated 15 August 2025, to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke |
Wellington City Council (the Council) requesting the following information:
• Al the documents and information, emails, transcripts, meetings, decisions
and consultations that WCC have regarding turning Hawkins Hill Road,
Brooklyn into a road or not into a public road on its entire length.
o Who was supportive and who wasn't.
• How does one raise the possibility of classifying the road into public use (it is
already publicly used after al , but to determine it so that it is looked after by
the roading contractors and not by the Parks department)?
• Provide any internal Council or communication between 2018-2025 (the
decision to approve the Tonkin & Taylor Report and reinstall the gate at the
Turbine Carpark was made by Council ors at the CSC Meeting 22/11/18).
o Any information supporting or questioning spending the 1.6mil ion on
12 impediments along the road from 2018 - 2025.
o If you need the search narrowed - happy to take from 2021-2025
instead.
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information
and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). As outlined in my letter dated 12 September
2025, the decision timeframe was extended to 26 September to allow for
consultation. Please find below our response to your request.
Turning Hawkins Hil into a Private Road
Please see the Council agenda and meeting minutes of the City Strategy Committee
(CSC) of 22 November 2023, outlining the final recommendations that were carried.
• Agenda -
Agenda of City Strategy Committee - 22 November 2018
• Minutes -
Minutes of City Strategy Committee - 22 November 2018
• See Appendix one: Voting record for final recommendations
Turning private road to Public:
Under the Local Government Act 1974, Section 349, Councils may declare private
roads or rights of way as public roads, but only if they are properly formed by the
landowners.
For a private road to be transferred to the Council for future maintenance, the private
road must be constructed (upgraded in this case) to comply with all road and
footpath construction requirements as stated in the Council Code of Practice for
Land Development.
These construction requirements are necessary to ensure that the Council does not
take over an asset which wil be a future liability from maintenance and safety
requirements in the asset functions and conditions.
This was tabled at the 22 November 2018 CSC meeting
, see minutes. It was agreed
that the road would remain private.
Tonkin Taylor Report:
•
Provide any internal Council or communication between 2018-2025 (the
decision to approve the Tonkin & Taylor Report and reinstall the gate at the
Turbine Carpark was made by Council ors at the CSC Meeting 22/11/18).
o
Any information supporting or questioning spending the 1.6mil ion on
12 impediments along the road from 2018 - 2025.
o
If you need the search narrowed - happy to take from 2021-2025
instead.
The total allocated capital fund of $1,624,000 was spent completing the safety and
pavement minor improvements project which was delivered within this budget. The
project scope included engineering earthworks, pavement repairs and replacement,
fencing, line marking, safety signage and speed calming measures between Ashton
Fitchett Drive and the former Woffingtons’ site.
Below are the documents that fall in scope of your request and my decision to
release the documents:
Item Document Name
Decision
1.
Hawkins Hil Right of Way Holders update - 7
August 2020
Release in full
2.
Long Gully - 18 December 2020
Release with
redactions
3.
Hawkins Hill RoW work letter - 11 February 2022 Release in full
4.
Slow Zone Information HH Row - 18 December
Release with
2022
redactions
5.
Speed hump installation on Hawkins Hil Right of
Way Starting 10 March 2024 - 8 February 2024
Release in full
6.
SR-908290 - Questions about Hawkins Hil Rd
Release with
and speed humps 26 February 2024
redactions
7.
Clarification - 27 February 2024
Release in full
8.
Speed bumps Hawkins Hil Rd and Brooklyn Rd - Release with
9 April 2024
redactions
9.
Hawkins Hil tour for Elected Members - 1 May
Release with
2024
redactions
10.
Hawkins Hill Speed bumps - 29 November 2024
Release with
redactions
Note:
Some information has been redacted under section 7(2)(a) to protect the privacy of
natural persons.
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As per section 7(1) of the LGOIMA, I do not consider that in the circumstances of this
response, the withholding of this information is outweighed by the other
considerations which render it desirable to in the public interest to make the
information available.
Please note, we may proactively release our response to your request with your
personal information removed.
I trust this information is helpful.
If you have any concerns about the response please contact
[email address]. Alternatively, you are advised of your right to raise
any concerns with the Of ice of the Ombudsman at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
or freephone 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Asha Harry
Of icial Information & Privacy
Wellington City Council
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Appendix one: Vote records for Hawkins Hill Right of Way (final recommendations)
Councillor
Mayor
Cr
Cr Calvi-
Cr
Cr Cr
Cr
Cr
Cr
Cr Cr
Cr
Cr
Cr
Cr
Lester*
Calvert Freeman
Dawson Day Fitzsimons Foster Free Gilberd Lee Marsh Pannett Sparrow Woolf Young
Vote for HH
RoW
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Final Recs
Notes:
*The City Strategy Committee accepted apologies for Mayor Lester for absence between 10.30 to 11am when voting took place.
Key:
1 – Voted yes
2 – Voted no
3 – Absent from vote
