Field Trips

Three field trips are available; Martinborough Winery Tour, Wellington’s Globalising Central Business District and Makara Windfarm Development

• Martinborough Winery Tour

  

• Full day Saturday
  Depart 8.30 am return by 7pm

  Cost $65 – includes lunch at a winery
  Limit: 43 participants

  This fieldtrip examines the wine industry at Martinborough: its evolution as the country’s first designated regional wine appellation and its subsequent development and spread.  The trip will involve visits to three wineries, including a lunch and opportunities to both hear from wine makers and sample their wines, and a tour of the original Martinborough Terrace area and the later Te Muna Road extension.

   

  Wellington’s Globalising Central Business District

  

• Friday afternoon

  Cost $20
  No limit on numbers

  This guided walking tour into the heart of New Zealand’s capital provides participants with expert insights into and explanations of its rapidly changing urban landscape. It makes visible how urban regeneration interests responded to the challenges and opportunities of a globalising world, recreating a CBD that combines old and new, public and private spaces against the backdrop of a dramatic and beautiful natural setting. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn first hand about the visions, politics, outcomes and lessons of Wellington’s urban redevelopment.

   

  Makara Windfarm Development

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• Friday afternoon

  Cost $50
  Limit: 43 participants

  This field trip will explore the recently approved development of a windfarm on the hills above Makara to the west of Wellington. We will consider the geomorphic significance of this landscape and the issues that were involved in the consenting process and  Environment Court hearing.