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Land confiscation
The land was confiscated from the Maori people as they refused to take an oath to the crown. -
Maungatakatake Quarried
It had a 76 m high scoria cone, beside a 100 m wide crater, before they were quarried away. It was the site of a pā.Only a hole remains. -
Closing of Oruarangi River
Closure of community ancestral river, Oruarangi River, reduced to a creek after oxidation ponds which brought the smell of sewage and plague of midges after heavy rain or sun. -
Airport extended
Runway extended. Overhead noise, burials desecrated. -
Development of Auckland Airport
About 90 Burial sites desecrated -
Land west of airport designated for Future Urban Use
Environmental Court made the ruling and ended plan by Manukau District Council era called the Māngere Gateway Heritage project which would have protected Ihumatao. -
Spillage of Dye
1000 litres of methyl violet industrial dye turning the creek purple, killing the life. -
Auckland Council designated land at Ihumatao as a Special Housing Area
SHA62 is planned to have 480 new houses built on land that may have burial sites underneath as well as Lava caves. Hand built stone walls may also be destroyed - part of heritage. -
SOUL organisation established to save our Landscape
Pania Newton is the spokesperson for SOUL which is a campaign group working to preserve the land and history in Ihumatao -
Auckland council upholds its decision to keep the site as a SHA62
Despite communite opposition -
Fletchers
Land sold to Fletchers Residential
