The University of Otago and DCC are creating a nature-themed pocket park on Great King Street which will be a new and exciting meeting and green space in the central city.

The park will celebrate biodiversity and the idea of the ‘healthy city’ in partnership with the University of Otago’s Zoology Department and will feature planters with bee-friendly native plants and a honeycomb surface painted on the footpath. Poetry will also feature within the design, in celebration of Dunedin’s status as UNESCO City of Literature.

The park design will also include macrocarpa bench seats, tables and chairs, space for a food truck, wheelchair accessible spaces, and festoon lighting. There will be bike stands and room for cyclists to travel through the park to join the SH1 cycleway. The pocket park will be a catalyst for more green space, trees and pop-up spaces in the central city and a meeting place for the whole community to enjoy.