Wednesday 3 September 2009
 The Planting and Weed Management contract continues at the Heads with Contractors planting the amenity gardens and revegetation plants on the southern headland and sand dune.
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Thursday 27 August 2009
 The Planting and Weed Management contract continues at the Heads with Contractors planting the rain gardens and preparing amenity beds for planting next week
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Wednesday 19 August 2009
The Planting and Weed Management contract is now underway at the Heads with the Contractors due to complete removal of the pines on the southern headland this week.
Some spraying and grass area preparation will follow later in the week.
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Wednesday 29 July 2009
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Work out at the Heads will begin again next week, Monday 3 August, and continue through to the end of September.
A local contractor Rural Design Limited has won the contract to undertake the final portion of work.
The contract begins with weed management which will include cleaning up the dune systems and removing the unsightly pines at the entrance to the headland track.
The second phase of the works will be planting and grassing around the car park and in some other areas.
None of this work will stop the public from accessing the parking or beach although redirection of traffic from usual routes in the carpark may occur at certain times.
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Friday 6 March 2009
Work on the Mangawhai Heads Redevelopment Project begins again this week after being in abeyance during our busy Christmas period.
Works that will be undertaken now include the upgrading of walkways and the building of overflow carparking areas along the entry road on the reserve.
It is anticipated that this work will take just over a month to complete.
First portions of work to be undertaken will include preparations for the overflow carparking area, this may reduce the entry road to one way for a week or so but access to the beach, existing parking areas and the surf club will always be possible.
Also the southern headland summit walkway will be reinstated, with new furniture at the summit, over the next couple of weeks - every endeavor will be made to ensure that this is open for the Mangawhai Annual Walking Weekend at the end of March.
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Friday 23 January 2009
 The formal opening of the Mangawhai Heads Car Park was held on Friday 19
December 2009 and we could not have asked for a nicer day on which to celebrate
the completion of the new facilities.
The special ceremony began at 10 am with a
blessing by Te Uri O Hau and was followed by a "ribbon cutting" by Mayor Neil
Tiller. All those who attended then retired to the Surf Life Club to enjoy
a sausage sizzle as Council's way of saying 'thank you' for accepting the
inconvenience caused by the upgrade.
Council would like to take this
opportunity to publicly thank Pete Innes and the other members of the Surf Life
Club who ably cooked their way through a large pile of sausages rounding off a
lovely morning.
The new facilities came through the Christmas/New Year period with flying
colours with people being full of praise at the area's new look. There
were some parking issues during the peak period which Council is working with
consultants and contractors to address. The landscaping portion of the
project is still to be completed and will assist in identifying areas that are
unavailable for parking. Turning the area into one giant car park was
never an option for either the community who live there full time or the Council
particularly as for 11 months of the year, the parking facilities provided will
seldom be fully utilised. It is proposed that aspects of the overall design look
of the facilities at the Heads will gradually be rolled out through a number of
the other coastal reserves in Mangawhai however these are very much future
projects requiring considerable public consultation to get a understanding of
what the community would like to see particular reserves used for.
In the immediate future Council is turning its attention toward the gradual
improving and linking of portions of the walkway to achieve an all-tide walk
around the harbour to the Heads. Initially the walkway network will
incorporate some walking along streets before reconnecting into the coastal
esplanade edge network. Over time, as Council acquires additional portions
of esplanade reserve or as improvements are made around the edge the amount of
all-tide access will extend. The initial stage of the walkway project will
be the portion of walkway from Wintle Street to Robert Street.
Mangawhai is a work in progress - continue to watch this space for
developments
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Wednesday 10 December 2008
Wednesday 10 December 2008
This week the final large concrete areas will be poured and the roadways will be sealed.
Vehicular access to the reserve will not be possible at all during this time (until about Thursday 18th)
Beach accesses will be complete this week and signage will be installed.
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Thursday 11 December 2008
Draft Management Plan
A public notice has appeared in the New Zealand Hearald and other local papers calling for submissions on the Mangawhai Coastal and Harbour Reserves Draft Management Plan.
Copies of the Plan are avaliable from the Kaiwaka Office, Dargaville Office, Mangawhai Information Centre, Mangawhai Library and the Dargaville Library. Please contact our Customer Service Centre, on 0800 727 059 or 09 439 7059, if you would like a copy and one will be forwarded on to you
A copy will be avaliable on the website next week
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Thursday 4 December 2008
 Toilet block vandalism repaired and
painting now continues, due to complete this week.
Plaza concrete pours are underway
and will be completed through the week.
The dune protection fences are being
constructed as are the accessways down to the beach.
Roadways will be completed on the
weekend and Wintle Street will be further blocked off with no parking available
through parts of next week.
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Wednesday 26 November 2008
 The work at the Heads is moving along
apace at present with the toilet block now fully hooked up to both electricity
and water
The roof is waterproofed and now painting of the exterior
and the pouring of the plaza area around it are being done through this and next
week
The timber promenade was completed today and the bollards
and fencing are being put in around the site
The garden areas are being filled with topsoil in
anticipation of planting around Easter when the weather is not so
dry
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Wednesday 19 November 2008
 Work at the Heads continues with final laying of the
pavers in the carpark this week.
Leveling of certain recreation areas is being complete and all garden bed
areas will be filled this week although not planted till later next year when
conditions are more suitable.
The ceilings are being put onto the toilet block this week together with the
roof material, and the drainlayer will complete his work around that area.
By the end of the week the painting of the toilet block will have begun.
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Wednesday 12 November 2008
 This week will see the majority of the carpark paving, and kerbs installed
and most of the timber promenade built, the rest will follow next
week.
The toilet block floor slabs will be poured
thru the week and the new water lines and valves will be
installed.
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Thursday 6 November 2008
 The old toilet block has now been demolished, giving the area a different feel and work is well underway on the new block. Portaloos have been provided until the new block is operational.
The permeable pavers are beginning to be laid in the lower carpark and
then will continue to be laid in the upper carpark.
The street lights have been relocated by Northpower.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
 The new toilet block construction has begun with the
walls and roof being worked on currently.
Over the next week the
floor slabs will be poured and electrical and water connections will be
made.
Final preparation to the pavement base of the carparks
is underway and the timber promenade foundations are being completed.
The old toilet block will be demolished over the next
week, and port-a-loos will be located on site for public use.
Trenching for electric cables and a new water line will
begin along the end of Wintle Street, this will restrict public access further
with only pedestrian access being available for most of the week.
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Wednesday 22 October 2008
 By the end of the week most of the new concrete kerbs
will be in place.
The foundations for the new Toilet Block are complete.
The rain gardens in the upper carpark have been filled with planting medium
ready for planting after Easter next year.
During the next week the toilet block walls will be put into place and other
pieces of construction around the toilets will begin.
North Power will be on site relocating light poles and other electrical
assets.
The site remains a no go area for the public for safety reasons, with other
pedestrian accesses for the beach having been provided.
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Wednesday 15 October 2008
 All excavation work now is complete with underground
ducting and drainage work
installed.
The raingardens will all be in place in the main carpark area by
Thursday.
Preparation for the kerbs and channels around the site begins today with the
actual kerbing scheduled to begin later this week.
The site may begin to look less tidy as piles of basecourse and other
materials
are placed in locations close to where work will be done as only
smaller diggers
will be able to move around the site once the kerbs are in
place.
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Tuesday 7 October 2008
 The toilet/change facility contractors are now on site
and are involved with the main contractor in completing the leveling of the site, with construction of the foundations for
the building walls due to go in at the end of this week.
All demolition and earthworks are complete now,
until the existing toilet block is removed later in the construction
period.
Surveyors are busy establishing levels for kerbs and then preparation
for the pouring of kerbs will begin by the end of the week
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Thursday 9 October 2008
 Programme wise we are on track with a minor amount of clearing of the site left to do and sediment controls due to be completed today.
Shaping of the carparks will be done by Friday with a geotechnical review to follow.
Forming of the toilet block area is underway with the cut at the rear of the toilets to be shaped to a softer angle and covered with coconut fibre fabric to stop any chance of exposure.
Utility ducting is due to occur throughout next week.
Novaloo will also be on site next week excavating and forming the foundations for the toilet block.
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Tuesday 30 September 2008
The first of many site meetings was held on site today.
Programme wise we are on track with a minor amount of clearing of the site left to do and sediment controls due to be completed by today. Shaping of the car parks will be done by Friday with a geotechnical review to follow.
Forming of the toilet block area is underway with the cut at the rear of the toilets to be shaped to a softer angle and covered with coconut fibre fabric to stop any chance of exposure.
Utility ducting is due to occur throughout next week.
Novaloo, contractors for the new toilets, will also be on site next week excavating and forming the foundations for the toilet block.
Please go to the photo gallery and check out the photo taken today. It is a view from the pedestrian side of the fence across the site, you can see the asphalt and footpath have been removed and silt fences are in the background and work on the base has begun.
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Major Re-development to Start Next Month
27 August 2008
Beachgoers heading for the surf beach at Mangawhai Heads this summer are in for a magical surprise thanks to a major re-development due to start next month.
Attractive new user-friendly facilities replace the old tired ones. There will be new sand ladders for beach access, new picnic tables and seats, a helicopter pad ready for landscaping and new plantings in the autumn planting season. Parking will be expanded and include a new configuration including parking for camper vans.
We will at long last have facilities to match this outstanding landscape, says Kaipara District Council's Southern Community Spaces portfolio holder, Councillor Julia Sutherland. The community has been asking for this for a long time and I'm very pleased that the project is about to get underway. Work is expected to start mid September and to facilitate this Mangawhai Heads Reserve will be closed to all but pedestrian traffic from then until 15 December, although access will be available for emergency vehicles and surf lifesavers.
Allowing pedestrian access only will put considerable pressure on this area and Kaipara District Council is considering ways to ease this, including the possibility of a weekend shuttle service to the Surf Beach from around the Mangawhai area.
I know this restriction will create inconvenience in the short term, but it will be worth it - I am sure that the long term benefits will far outweigh this temporary nuisance Cr Sutherland says.
She says splitting the project into two parts is not a viable option as it would increase the time and amount of disruption involved as well as substantially increasing costs.
Facilities at the popular beach have been growing increasingly inadequate as more and more people discover it and for some time residents have been asking for improvements in the Mangawhai Heads Reserve. After considerable liaison plus community and iwi input, Kaipara District Council has approved an exciting redevelopment plan which is being funded from the Council's Reserves Contribution Fund, built up from levies on development projects.
The new eye-catching toilet block, which will be built closer to the surf club, will incorporate a contemporary design featuring strong lines and vibrant colours reflecting pohutukawa.
New signage will reflect Mangawhai's coastal character and become the basis for future signage throughout the reserves in the coastal area. Similarly, picnic tables and bench seats are also being designed to reflect the local character.
It is hoped to have the re-development finished when the reserve re-opens on 15 December 2008 but if weather or other factors delay work on the project it will not re-start until 1 March 2009 to ensure that summer enjoyment of the beach is not affected.
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HEB Construction Awarded Contract
22 September 2008
The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived.
The Kaipara District Council awarded successful tenderers HEB Construction
the contract for the re-development works at the Mangawhai Head Reserve/Surf
Beach late last week.
HEB has been in business for more than 25 years and has long standing branches
in Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Waikato and Taupo and recently formed
branches in Wellington, Blenheim and Christchurch.
Its six core services are structures, roading, infrastructure, landscapes,
subdivision and precast.
Chas Flower is the Northland Area Manager/Contract Manager. He has some 47
years experience in the civil construction industry, specialising in the geotechnical
field.
The company, Novaloo Limited will be constructing the toilets. Soul Environments
continues to be involved in the project as does Kea Consultants.
The contractors will be on site from Monday 22 September 2008. Please note
that this means the car park at the Surf Beach is now closed with pedestrian
access only.
Council would like to thank you all for your patience over the next three months.
For more information contact:
Governance Manager
Barbara Ware,
Telephone 09 439 7059 or 0800 727 059
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