Robertson Grant: National War Memorial Park (Pukeahu) Empowering Bill — In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Robertson Grant: National War Memorial Park (Pukeahu) Empowering Bill — In Committee 
[Sitting date: 26 September 2012. Volume:684;Page:5703. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
GRANT ROBERTSON (Deputy Leader—Labour) 
: 
 I want to take just a brief call to finish my contribution in the Committee stage of the National War Memorial Park (Pukeahu) Empowering Bill because we are taking this as one question. I just want to note one area that I did not mention in my previous couple of calls and that is that there are extensive schedules to this bill. It is important to note what they do and what they involve and it picks up some of what Te Ururoa Flavell just mentioned. A number of different organisations and people are drawn into how this park will develop through the schedules and that includes the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust and the wider Taranaki Whanui because they are a landowner within this park. So I just want to make the point for the member that within the schedules there are a number of places in which they have a role in the development of the park. 
One of the more curious matters that arose during the select committee process was around the maps that are in schedule 10 of the bill. I just want to note for the record that although these maps are indicative of what will happen they are not of course exactly to the exact centimetre in terms of scale of what will happen. 
One thing I want to note about these maps is that this is the place in which local Wellingtonians will discover that over the next couple of years they are to face significant change and disruption in their movement around the city. Annette King’s constituents as they come in from Rongotai to the bright lights of Wellington Central and come round the corner from Sussex Street behind the Basin Reserve will discover that they will now be driving a little further before veering left and heading up towards Aro Valley and so on. This will be disruptive. There needs to be an intensive community engagement programme to ensure that not only the residents of the Mount Cook area but also the residents of wider Wellington and those who visit Wellington will be aware of this. 
I know that the officials and Mr Finlayson are working on that engagement programme. I just urge that it is as open as possible and that it uses all the new technology that is available to ensure that people are kept involved and kept informed with those changes and disruptions because they will be significant and they will last for some time. Mt Cook School which Mr Finlayson and others have been working closely with is aware of these changes because State Highway 1 will now angle beside its back fence. We need to make sure that the school continues to be kept engaged and kept informed and that any changes or improvements that are needed during this time are acknowledged. 
In the schedules we have these plans. They are exciting and they will deliver us this wonderful green space and National War Memorial Park but we need to recognise that there will be significant disruption for Wellingtonians. 
The last thing I want to say is just to give some credit to the Wellington City Council for its involvement and cooperation in this project. It is not only contributing a significant amount of money but also needing to work very closely with the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in order to ensure that the law is upheld and the processes are done properly. We are very grateful for its contribution to this.