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Restoring the Huatoki

Huatoki Corridor Masterplan

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Huatoki Plaza City Centre core amenity upgrades Development opportunities Huatoki Daylighting The Landing Sir Victor Davies Park

By embracing the natural asset and leveraging off spaces adjacent to it, the path of the Huatoki can act as a catalyst for vibrant and active spaces in the heart of Ngāmotu New Plymouth. The Huatoki corridor will provide for high quality and diverse experiences through the city centre, with a continuous sequence of public spaces from the coast to Vivian Street, extending further south with the Huatoki Walkway.

The Huatoki Corridor Masterplan will be the guiding concept document for the delivery programme and look-and-feel of the Huatoki corridor. A framework for surface materials, planting schemes and wayfinding features along the Huatoki will ensure the Huatoki corridor creates coherent and inclusive spaces for the community that provide opportunities to engage with the water, while enhancing the natural character of the stream.

The Huatoki Corridor Masterplan should be underpinned by a wider Huatoki catchment management plan to support the mauri of the stream's ecosystems along its whole length, and provide enough detail to enable independent future design development of four main project sites:

  • The Landing
  • Huatoki Plaza
  • Huatoki Daylighting
  • Sir Victor Davies Park

Impact compass

Huatoki Corridor Masterplan

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Two children in Huatoki Plaza

Working together

  • Ngāti Te Whiti
  • TAFT
  • Venture Taranaki
  • Puke Ariki
  • Adjacent Landowners
  • Adjacent businesses
  • Taranaki Regional Council

Progress so far

Step 1

The Ngāmotu Māori Design Guidelines and a Cultural Landscape Framework have been developed and used to inform the scope of the Huatoki Concept Masterplan.

Step 3 

NPDC and K.D. Holdings (KDH) formed a public-private partnership to daylight the Huatoki stream.  Designs have been prepared to demolish the NPDC-owned Metro Plaza building to daylight the awa beneath and enable KDH to build a combination of retail, office and hospitality spaces on neighbouring sites, with demolition due to start in early 2026.

Step 2

The concept masterplan for the Huatoki from the coast to Vivian Street, with a series of projects for each space, was completed in September 24 and shared with developers and neighbouring property owners.

Step 4

We will continue to implement the Huatoki projects in phases, aligning public and private developments where possible.

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Page last updated: 12:27pm Wed 24 September 2025

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