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National Park Village Plan and Achievements

Following the major investment by Council in installing the water supply and sewage systems in 1985 the next sizable investment was the National Park Village Park & Ride in 2017. Also of significant benefit to the community was the building of the Roy Turner Memorial Playground.

More progress was enabled with the Mainstreet Programme which saw footpaths along SH4, decorative street lighting in Carroll Street some verge smoothing to enable grass mowing maintenance and swale drain sumps in Mackenzie Street.

Progress after that has been through the development of the National Park Village Strategy of 1999 and its iterations through to the National Park Village Plan of 2020 and many submissions to RDC Annual Plan & Long Term Plans by NPVPA & NPVBA and other initiatives.

State Highway 4

  • Installation of footpaths. Carroll Street to the monument.
  • Provision of small layby on SH 4. Part of a bigger project that didn’t proceed.
  • Landscaping and seat by the Legion of Frontiersmen Memorial which has a consistent theme with Waiouru landscaping.

Waimarino-Tokaanu Road

  • Sealing of road.
  • Provision of footpath, kerb & channel, drains & street lighting. Car parking at Macrocarpa Café.

Findlay Street

  • Footpaths with kerb & channel. SH4 – Buddo Street & Buddo Street to Station Road.
  • Drainage pipes from SH4 to Buddo Street.

Millar Street

  • Road sealed.
  • Footpath with kerb & channel.
  • Ducting for underground power cables.

Carroll Street

  • Decorative street lighting poles.
  • Footpath on north side.
  • Bus stop shelter.

Buddo Street

  • Footpath with kerb & channel and drains. Findlay Street to Carroll Street. Carrol Street to Turner Place was scheduled at the same time as the Carroll St footpath but was not done.

Mackenzie Street

  • Surface sumps for verge drainage.
  • Verge smoothing.

Ward Street

  • Ward Street north. Gravel road and turning circle formed.

Pehi Road

  • Road sealed from the level crossing to NPV Transfer Station.

Fisher Road & Kurua Road

  • Old Fishers Track reformed into a maintained road from Pehi Road to the gate at Tupapakurua Falls Track entry.
  • Old Fishers Track reformed for Mountains to Sea Cycle Trail from Tupapakurua Falls Track entry to Sivyer’s access track to their hut. (Public Road sign).

Tupapakurua Falls Track

  • Track cut and formed with gravel and drains to day visitor standard to Taranaki Lookout.
  • Track cut to Tupapakurua Falls Lookout and 75% gravelled with numerous re-routes to avoid hillocks.
  • Multiple sets of steps installed on steep sections.
  • A route cut from the Falls Lookout to base of the waterfall.
  • DOC has provided track gravel. A bucket system by track walkers delivers gravel to the work site. DOC has provided track signage. Orange track markers were installed from the stream crossing to the waterfall base.
  • An MOU signed with DOC, and a Conservation award to NPVPA in 2008.

Roy Turner Memorial Playground

  • Established on Education Board land and funded by Council. NPVPA led community input to the design and donated $1000 for planting and subsequently replacing the pea metal with wood chips. Pea metal was made available to residents.
  • NPVBA established the barbeque and seating and shelter.

Around the Village walkway

  • Volunteer initial clearing of gorse between Mackenzie & Ward Streets. Dog Park walkway built.

Dog Park

  • Created on Council paper road. Scrub cleared, grass sown & pathway installed. Drains and culverts installed.

District Plan

  • Additions in the DP Reviews provided National Park Village with Protection of Character, protection of view shafts, restriction of developments along SH 4 and SH47, use of alpine design features when building, etc. See DP for details.

Cycle Trails

  • NPVBA created, and continues to maintain, the 19 km Marton Sash & Door Cycle Trail with a built value of $500k as a contribution to The Missing Link (Te Hangaruru) to help completion of the greater Mountains to Sea Trail.

National Park Village Park & Ride

  • A major investment by RDC as a result of the community’s involvement with Tongariro National Park traffic and parking considerations.

Advisory

As well as making regular submissions on behalf of the community to RDC annual and long-term plans NPVBA & NPVPA members have participated in several advisory committees of council and the Department of Conservation.

  • Mainstreet Programme.
  • Roy Turner Memorial Playground.
  • Tongariro Alpine Crossing.
  • Mountains to Sea Cycle Trail.
  • National Park Village Revitalisation Plan.

National Park Village Community Hall

  • Hall Re-piled.
  • Windows replaced on the east side with larger ones.
  • Painting hall interior.
  • Repairing rotten flooring in the two toilets, fixing walls, fixing doors, painting, and installing new toilets and hand basins.
  • Painting the rear lobby, kitchen, storeroom and meeting room.
  • Installation of vinyl flooring – Toilets, rear lobby & kitchen.
  • Water blasting of black mould from the front concrete deck, steps and balustrades.
  • Undergrounding of the hall power supply.
  • Installation of a new roof.
  • Installation of guttering and downpipe system.
  • Removal of old canopy roof and painting of canopy structure and balustrades.
  • New heating.
  • Installation of new front entry door and new digital door lock.
  • Kitchen. New benches, fridge, dishwasher, stove, hot water, utensils, mobile island and associated plumbing and electrical work.

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