Oku Street Reserve
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The Oku Street Reserve is an 8-hectare[1] park in Wellington, New Zealand.[2] It is located on a promontory between the suburbs of Island Bay and Ōwhiro Bay, and looks down over Taputeranga Marine Reserve and Ōwhiro Bay. It comprises two small hills with a ridge between them, and has a path and several benches, with two public access points.
In the 1970s the land that is now the reserve was farm pasture.[3] In the late 1980s Fletcher Construction planned a new subdivision on the site, but after local opposition they did a land-swap with Wellington City Council who bought the land and gazetted it as a recreation reserve in 1998.[1][4][3] Volunteers replanted the reserve with seedlings from the Council's nursery.[3]
