Local Focus: The Eskdale Park mountain bike battle
1 Apr, 2021 07:47 PM
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Mountain Bike plans for Eskdale Park have upset users. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Mountain Bike plans for Eskdale Park have upset users. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Video Journalist Hawke s Bay/Wairarapa, NZH Local Focuspatrick@localfocus.nz@padyoo7
More than 4000 mountain bikers are losing access to their tracks because the Pan Pac forest block is being harvested.
So the company has offered them nearby blocks and a bigger and better park is planned.
With the Government handing out millions for regional projects, Hastings District Council s economic development team got behind the proposal.
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Eskdale and mountain bike parks collide
19 Feb, 2021 04:30 PM
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The Hawke s Bay Mountain Bike Club wants to build a hub at Eskdale Park.
Napier Courier
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by Brenda Vowden
brenda.vowden@nzme.co.nz
Eskdale Park is many things to many people a unique playground where generations of locals and out-of-towners have picnicked, swum and played for more than 100 years. We are now at risk of losing this wonderful area, say Friends of Eskdale Park committee members Janice and William MacFarlane.
Eskdale local Trina Bergloff-Howes founded the group, now an incorporated society, in response to the Hastings District Council s 2018 release of the Hawke s Bay Mountain Bike Club s (HBMTBC) plan. The plan includes the building of a hub , car parking for 200 and a swing bridge situated near the current site of the park s toilets.
Hawke s Bay: Future of Eskdale Park fast-forwarded by council amid mountain biking proposal tensions
12 Dec, 2020 10:40 PM
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Eskdale Park s reserve management plan has been moved forward from 2030 to 2021 by Hastings District Council - encompassing a potential mountain biking hub. Photo / Supplied
Eskdale Park s reserve management plan has been moved forward from 2030 to 2021 by Hastings District Council - encompassing a potential mountain biking hub. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Louise Gould Hastings District Council is hitting fast forward on its long-term management plan for Eskdale Park after a mountain biking access proposal sent ripples around the community.
The rural park, sitting north of Napier, had not