August 2025
Tree Management Strategic Vision
The Management Committee have taken the opportunity to approve the development of a Vegetation Masterplan for Hastings Golf Club to provide guidance for improving and maintaining the plant and tree scape. This long-term vision will begin in the new year. The master plan will be developed by Wayfinder, a Hastings based landscape architecture consultancy, who have provided similar strategies for Millbrook and the wider Lodge and Villas precinct at Cape Kidnappers among other impressive projects.
The plan will:
- Establish zones within the golf course with selected native plant and tree species aligned to each zone.
- Provide criteria to determine zones for decision making over time.
- Focus on long term resilience, high amenity and low maintenance.
- Present information in an operational yet graphical format to assist wider member understanding.
Wayfinder are the lead designers for the proposed Golf Developments residential project. However, this master plan will remain focused on Hastings Golf Club’s needs first and foremost.
In the new year, before initial implementation begins, we will be able to have available to members the graphical presentation.
On implementation, members’ engagement in the project, we hope, could include donation of trees and volunteering in supervised planting. We will keep you up to date on this important and exciting way forward for your golf course.
Robyn Bell
President
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