About
West Park Marina is privately owned and operated by Westpark Marina Limited. The only marina in scenic Waitakere City and the third largest in the Auckland Region.
The future of Westpark Marina
Westpark Marina seeks your ongoing input and involvement in the redevelopment of Westpark Marina.
Your opinions and ideas about how future growth and development should be managed on the site is important in order to ensure a high quality outcome is achieved.
Here's how you can continue to participate:
Public review of conceptual development options:
Five draft Conceptual Development Options have been prepared for public review (below) and also summarised in a 2 page pamphlet which is available for collection from Westpark Marina offices, 18 Clearwater Cove, West Harbour.
Each of the issues are addressed in different forms in each of the development options.
A public review / comment period on the project will run from 11 December 2007 to 1 March 2007 after which time all feedback received from the community will be reviewed.
Following this review, a Final Draft Development Options document (incorporating feedback received), will be prepared and submitted in April 2007. If you wish to make any comments on the proposal you can send them via email to: comments@westpark.co.nz
Or alternatively via post to:
Attn: General Manager
Westpark Marina
PO Box 66
West Park Village
West Harbour
AUCKLAND 1250
Marina history
West Park Marina is located in Limeburners Bay, Hobsonville, which for almost a century was a centre for the heavy clay industry with the first brickworks being started by Joshua Carder and R.O. Clark in the 1860s. The tidal banks of the Upper Waitemata Harbour, with their fine clay deposits, were common sites for manufacturing and firing bricks and pipes which were then transported by barge to Auckland.
 |  | The passing of special government legislation in 1979 allowed for the development of the marina and associated reclamation. Construction of the marina commenced in 1983 and was completed two years later. |
| Left: Aerial view of the Marina |
The marina location has spurred considerable high quality residential development within the immediate catchment and the marina itself now serves as a community hub, with its waterfront access, restaurant, cafes and retail stores, and also as a prime location for a local marine industry cluster, with its boat haulout facility, boatbuilders, marine painters, marine engineers and a range of associated trades and services.
In 1995 West Park was incorporated into Waitakere City Council's District Plan as a Marina Special Area which accords the development a special status having regard to its unique purpose.
The continued strong growth of local marine industries on the back of successive successful America's Cup defences, combined with increased scarcity of suitable coastal land in the Auckland Region for marina related uses has contributed to the increasing desirability of West Park for both boaters and marine service providers alike.