Landscape Architecture Aotearoa Summer 2017 Landscape Architecture Aotearoa Volume 3 | Page 53

SUMMER 2017 53 reform were led by both Mr J Newman , president of Travel and Holidays Association and Dr John T Salmon ( 1910-1999 ), senior lecturer in biology at Victoria University Wellington , who had the year before returned from a Carnegie Travelling Fellowship in the United States , and is known as the author of the classic Heritage Destroyed : The Crisis in Scenery Preservation in New Zealand .
The following year , the Government had been further pressured to establish the first state-run native plant nursery in Taupo to grow plants to restore the nearby heavily modified hydrodam sites and catchments . Two years later followed the establishment of the Nature Conservation Council .
1 . Environmental Impact Reports
The first two EIRs were published in 1973 . The Onehunga Bay Motorway EIR was a report written for the Onehunga Borough Council by self- employed landscape architects Harry Turbott and Brian Halstead with detailed motorway scheme options . The second EIR had a significant contribution from Frank Boffa as part of the 1973 Greenlane Regional Road Environmental Impact Study by JASMaD .
Twelve years after the EIR report of Turbott and Halstead was written and subsequently absorbed into the government policies including public submission and auditing practices the project received a national annual Environmental Award in February 1985 . The original plaque still stands in a corner of
the park
None of this history making action in 1973 and beyond about the work of Turbott and Halstead was acknowledged in the considerable literature generated by the recent Onehunga Bay - Naumanu Reserve developments . Announcing the award in 1985 the Central Leader wrote :
Concerned at the probable loss of Onehunga ’ s last recreational link with the sea , the [ Onehunga Borough ] council of the day commissioned Auckland landscape itect Harry Turbott and Brain Halstead to produce an environmental impact report on the motorway .
The 1973 report was a key document in deciding the future of Onehunga Bay . It addressed the loss of the bay ’ s boats and swimming amenities and arranged other things suggesting a pond be built behind the proposed motorway causeway .
A councillor involved from the beginning , Dr Arch Hugill , says the Ministry ’ s [ of Works ] original plan involved filling in the bay to provide playing fields .
“ But the council of the day considered the borough had sufficient of that sort of active recreational facilities with Waikaraka Park and other fields . ( Bay Project takes Award . Central Leader 19 February 1985 .)
2 . Visual Landscape Assessment Some of the history of New Zealand Visual Landscape Assessment was published in 1973 by Gary
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