LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS FOR MILFORD

The Milford Summer Picnic, Sunday, 1 March 2026, 11am to 3pm, Milford Reserve

We hope to see as many of you as possible on Sunday 1 March at our beautiful reserve. Poster here: Milford Summer Picnic 2026 Poster.pdf. All friends and family are welcome.

Entertainment by wonderful local singer, Serene Boulton. Free facepainting, Big Box Play by the Creative Kids Collective and yard games by members of the Sunnynook School Holiday programme team. Local community organisations and Council services like Auckland Emergency Management, Nga Wairau Flood Prevention Project and the Watercare Wonder Wai Lite trailer and more will have stalls, displays and can explain projects to you.

Raindate is 8 March - we will email if postponed due to weather and announce on our website and Milford Locals.

Milford Community-Led Storm Recovery Project 

This was a major project for MRA and the community members who came together to form the Milford Storm Recovery Group last year. You will recall us inviting feedback from you on how we can recover from the 2023 storm and make Milford a stronger community in the future. The project facilitator, Community Think, has written a report that summarises all your feedback, identifies themes and common suggestions, and makes suggestions for next steps. The report is concise and makes for interesting reading. Please look through it and contact us if you would like to be involved in any of the projects suggested.  Report available here: Milford Report on Community Led Recovery at 30 Jan 2026.pdf   We would love to hear your comments and offers of help: chairs@milford.org.nz

We will present this report to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board at the Community Forum, The Rose Centre, Belmont, on Wednesday, 11 February 2026. Starts 6.00pm, MRA speaks at 6.30pm. Everyone welcome to attend.

A F Thomas Park - Consultation on Future Recreational Uses

This consultation by Kaipatiki Local Board on the contested future uses of A F Thomas Park occurred late in 2025. The Consultation Summary of feedback has just been released and is available here: https://hdp-au-prod-app-ak-haveyoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/1217/7025/0109/A_F_Thomas_Park_summary_of_feedback.pdf

A separate piece of consultation commissioned by Kaipatiki Local Board was a Deliberative Democracy Forum on the issue. Report: https://hdp-au-prod-app-ak-haveyoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/4217/7025/1871/DD-_AFT_Park_-_Report.pdf   NZ Herald reporter Simon Wilson has written the following article that gives a sense of the deliberative process itself: SimonWilsonArticle DD AFT Park.PDF.