Completed just in time for the 2006 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Waitangi Park is a major feature of Wellington's rapidly changing urban landscape.

Stretching across six hectares of the Capital’s waterfront, it is the city’s newest and biggest urban park.

Originally the area was built on reclaimed land and it has been used for many prosaic purposes over the years, including a bus park, morgue and the city’s rubbish incinerator.

In recent times it was known as “Chaffer’s Park” an under-used and rather scrappy precinct. As the new Waitangi Park, it is used as a casual meeting place and often hosts city events. It features all new skate park facilities, children’s play garden, petanque piste and landscaped areas that integrate the natural elements of grass, stone and water.

The wetlands section is a significant landscape feature in an urban setting and is designed to filter and cleanse the Waitangi stream – now part of the landscape, the wetlands and surface water, for many years ran through an underground culvert. Other parts of the wetlands are designed to cleanse stormwater pollution.

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