17 September 2025 
 
 
File ref: IRC-8967 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wellington City (Hataitai) Rate Payer 
[FYI request #32064 email] 
 
Tēnā koe Wellington City (Hataitai) Rate Payer 
 
 
Thank you for your letter dated/email of 20 August 2025 to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City Council 
(the Council), requesting the following information: 
 
Please provide the cost paid to acquire *all* property associated with the Outer Green Belt since the 
initial concept. 
 
For example, but not limited to, the following: 
 
• 
Owhiro Bay Quarry (purchased) 
• 
Most of the land purchased in the 1960s for the Southern Landfill is now Te Kopahou reserve. 
• 
Reserve contributions around Panorama Heights 
• 
The formerly inaccessible Karori Reservoir is now Zealandia eco Sanctuary 
• 
The lower slopes of Wright Hill (ex Janaki property – purchased) 
• 
From Wright Hill across South Karori Road into Makara Peak (ex Fletcher Housing property - 
purchased) 
• 
Makara Peak (ex Miet land - purchased) 
• 
Makara Peak (ex Ivanoff land - purchased) 
• 
Makara Saddle (ex Dunbar land – swapped with land at Khouri Avenue to protect the ridgeline 
integrity) 
• 
Otari Farm (part of the original Parkvale / Sky Farm around Johnston Hill – purchased) 
• 
Kilmister Tops (purchased – two parcels) Otari (two smaller land areas – purchased) 
• 
Top of Awarua Road (purchased) Old Coach Road (purchased) 
• 
268 Ohariu Valley Road (purchased) 
• 
Churton Park Reserves (reserve acquisition) 
• 
Airstrip land (purchased) Te Ngahere o Tawa (purchased) 
• 
Larsen Crescent Bush (purchased) 
 
Please summarise the total of *all* purchases, with and without the value of land swapped to get it or 
donated/provided by the city for it. 
 
 
Your request is being considered under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 
(LGOIMA). 
 
This letter is to advise you that the Council needs to extend the due date of your response for 20 working 
days, pursuant to section 14(1)(a) of the LGOIMA, as the request is for a large quantity of official information 
or necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and meeting the original time limit would 
unreasonably interfere with the operations of the local authority, and  section 14(1)(b) of the LGOIMA, as 
consultations necessary to make a decision on the request are such that a proper response to the request 
cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit. 
 
For this reason, you can expect a response from the Council no later than 15 October 2025. 
 
 
 
 
 

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You have the right, by way of complaint under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA, to request an investigation and 
review of WCC’s decision to extend by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is 
available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.  
 
If you require further information, please contact [Wellington City Council request email].  
 
 
Nāku noa, nā 
 
 
 
 
Chelsea McHugh 
Senior Advisor Official Information 
Risk & Assurance Team 
Wellington City Council 
 
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