Manukau Harbour community insights. A summary of public consultations 2019-2024, December 2024. 

Introduction

Auckland Council has undertaken several large-scale public consultation processes over the last five years (2019-2024) that include a regionwide approach to seeking Aucklanders’ views on healthy coasts, beaches, and ecosystems. Other locally focused and smaller-scale consultations sought values and views from Aucklanders specifically related to the Manukau Harbour.

This document outlines the findings of Aucklanders’ views on the Manukau Harbour as expressed in recent consultation feedback to Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Council.

The review was intended to assess and summarise existing consultation material into one of the inputs of high-level strategic direction for the health of the Manukau Harbour. This approach was determined by project leaders as being an adequate and efficient foundation for the strategic direction and replaces the requirement for specific public consultation for this project. This approach was brought to the attention of the Policy and Planning Committee.

Strategic direction for the health of the Manukau Harbour was adopted by the Planning, Environment and Parks Committee on 13 June 2024 (now Policy and Planning Committee). The benefits of implementing this strategic direction include:

• enabling Auckland Council departments and council-controlled organisations to prioritise, coordinate and align investment and activities
• providing the Governing Body, committee members, the council group, mana whenua and the public with transparent evaluation of progress towards achieving agreed environmental outcomes for the Manukau Harbour.

Our Approach

To complete this review staff have:

• identified relevant consultation campaigns and obtained their summary reports
• defined the scope and material of significance to this assessment
• analysed the consultation summary reports and presented the findings in this report.

The consultation reports summarise feedback provided by individuals and organisations located in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The reports also identify key themes and comments as well as highlighting the differences between subsets of respondents. As detailed in Table 1 (report page 2), a selection of these reports were reviewed to identify Aucklanders’:

• aspirations and goals for the future of the Manukau Harbour
• issues affecting the environmental health of the Manukau Harbour
• values of the Manukau Harbour.

Auckland Council, December 2024