Areas of open land around a city, on which building is restricted.
Wellington's fantastic town belt helps make the city special
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Each year, for five years, 2,000 trees will be planted on the town belt to celebrate Victoria University graduates.
I've never taken my children up to the town belt for an overnight stay, but there's something about that situation which provoked my imagination.
The purpose of the bill is to protect the town belt for future generations and to provide a management regime.
He is one of only three consultants to the council regarding mountain-bike access to the town belt.
The town belt in Wellington is the ring of hills which surrounds the city, and it is reserved land, so you can't build on it.
Last week's storms coming hard on the heels of a wet and windy January have ravaged Wellington's roadside trees and felled whole stands in the town belt.
We usually walked downhill to school with a neighbour who was walking to work, but we were not nervous about walking through the town belt on our own.
The town belt is to be surveyed by helicopter this week.
In late November, I saw the two birds together, so I started searching for a nest in this part of the town belt where there are big old trees.
The city administration had to look beyond the area within the four town belts.