ALMOST EVERY TREE YOU SEE HERE - WILL BE CUT DOWN BY COUNCIL USING OVER 58 MILLION DOLLARS OF RATEPAYER AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
THEY WILL COMPLETELY DESTROY THE 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 driving range every year. It returns over $310,000 to Auckland Council annually and it saves ratepayers $400,000 in annual maintenance and improvements. IT IS THE BUSIEST COURSE IN THE COUNTRY. Losing this PUBLIC course will be a crime against nature and our community.
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.
Every tree you see here will be cut down and bulldozed, to create an artificial wetland…
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 will destroy many 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. The TAKAPUNA GOLF COURSE SOLUTION will mean that many hundreds of mature trees will be spared from felling and some affected by excavation 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.