Background Info

Alexander Road Reserve, being Part Lot 144 DP 36908, is a Council owned and managed reserve located on Alexander Road and Spencer Road at Lake Tarawera. In 1994 Council gave approval for a building to be located on part of the reserve for the Rotorua Playcentre Association to run a Playcentre service for the Lake Tarawera community. To enable this to happen, the part of the reserve occupied by the building was classified as Local Purpose (Playcentre) Reserve under the Reserves Act 1977.

In November 2017, the Tarawera Playcentre ceased operating due low attendance numbers and the building was gifted to the Lake Tarawera Community Group Inc. The lease for the reserve has subsequently being assigned to the Lake Tarawera Community Group on the proviso that the building cannot be used for anything other than a Playcentre until such time as the reserve classification is changed.