Understand the Takapuna Golf Course proposal and why it’s important to retain an 18-hole public course
Welcome to the Keep The Course hub. We are a group of professionals, community supporters and volunteers committed to mitigating flood risk threatening lives and homes in Wairau Valley while maintaining an 18-hole golf course.
More than 200,000 people of all descriptions use this public 18-hole golf course and park every year. It returns over $310,000 to Auckland Council annually and it saves ratepayers $400,000 in annual maintenance and improvements.
We want to work collaboratively with the Kaipatiki and Devonport/Takapuna Local boards, Auckland Council, including the Parks and Healthy Waters (stormwater departments), local Iwi, government ministers and the community to progress and implement a solution that works for the many thousands of Aucklanders who frequent A F Thomas Park every week, as well as the people, homes and businesses that may be affected by a potential flood event within the next decade.
Under our proposal, the SHOAL BAY SOLUTION, stormwater will be safety redirected through a landscaped green channel and underground pipe system. This route follows the Takapuna Golf Course, goes under Northcote Road, then passes beneath Smith’s Bush and the motorway before reaching Shoal Bay.
It’s a practical, environmentally friendly plan designed to deliver lasting flood resilience for the Wairau Valley - smarter and much more cost-effective than other options, which result in increased costs for the ratepayers.
Yes. We can SAVE trees!
The Takapuna Golf Course is full of highly valuable trees and ecosystems that can be saved and our proposal will do that. To make this possible and viable, it is crucial to keep the layout of the course as 18 holes. The wetlands option put forward by the Auckland Council Healthy Waters team would destroy hundreds of trees and existing stream ecology.
How you can help
If you would like to help us to Keep The Course, you can donate to the campaign, volunteer your time and skills, lobby our elected representatives or sign our petition….click here
“The course is full of highly valuable trees. Both proposals will require many to be cut down, but the Takapuna Golf Course proposal to keep 18 holes will mean that many can be transplanted and saved.”
Scott Geddes - Arborist
We wish to work with the water, the land, the trees and nature, the community and the people
…not against them.
E hiahia ana mātou ki te mahi ngātahi me te wai, te whenua, ngā rākau ā taio, te hapori me ngā tāngata
…ehara i te whawhai ki a rātou.