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Plaques and memorials to be removed from maunga

Flagstaff Team

Memorial bench installed on Takarunga

Plaques and memorials installed on Takarunga and Maungauika since August 2014 will be removed.

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority (TMA) has developed a memorials-and-plaques policy, under which no new memorials and plaques will be approved. Requesters will instead be offered an opportunity to plant a tree as part of a TMA planting programme.

Any memorials or plaques installed since August 2014, without approval of the authority, will be removed unless they are deemed approved structures as a “cultural activity” as provided for in Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Act 2014.

Plaques and memorials erected pre-2014 are not guaranteed to remain.
These will be considered by the authority on a “case by case basis”, the policy states. Plaques attached to bench seats around Devonport have been a popular way to remember long-time residents and important historical figures.

A number of these plates have been affixed to seats on Maungauika and Takarunga.

  • To apply for a memorial public seat in Devonport outside the mountains an application needs to go to Auckland Council for review by the Devonport–Takapuna Local Board. However in practice many small plaques have been placed on seats around the area without official permission.

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