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It's Parks Week - get into it

There are 43 playgrounds in Hastings with 182 pieces of play equipment, 177 parks and reserves spread over more than 600 hectares, 13,000 specimen trees, 52,000m2 of shrub beds and much more - and there has never been a better time to get around and explore them.

Next week is New Zealand’s first ever Parks Week, an Australasian celebration initiated by the New Zealand Recreation Association and Parks and Leisure Australia.

The idea is to work with councils to raise awareness of the public spaces, and to encourage people to use and enjoy them.

Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule says the range and quality of the district’s parks, from suburban play grounds and the small pocket parks in the central city, to sports fields and the natural reserves such as Tainui, give everyone the chance to enjoy the outdoors.

A focus on just how beautiful the green spaces in Hastings are was a big part of the district winning the most recent national ‘Most Beautiful City’ award.

“Much of the land for the bigger spaces has been gifted to the council over the last 100-plus years, and we are very grateful for the foresightedness of those donors,” says Mr Yule.

Cornwall Park in the middle of Hastings is a perfect example, 21 acres of green space gifted to the people of Hastings by the Williams family in 1901. “That has to be one of the jewels in our crown, with space for sport, concerts, massive specimen trees, a playground, the Harold Holt Begonia House and the Osmanthus Garden, dedicated to our sister city Guilin.”

More and more community events are being held in the parks, things like the Jazz in the Park series in Havelock North, Concerts in the Park in Hastings, cultural and sports days in Flaxmere. “It is great to see our people making use of what really is their own backyard. The parks are for using and enjoying – for activities or quiet times, picnics or play. They all have their own unique personality and I really do encourage people to get around them as many as possible.”

For a list of council’s playgrounds see: www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/playground-list-map

 

4 October 2017

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