Our Story

The Matiatia Estates region is one of four North-Western Waiheke precincts developed under the guidance and vision of Dennis Scott & Associates in the late 90’s.
The Coastal Custodians current area of responsibility consists of 40 plus lots stretching from just north of “W-Bay” to Matiatia wharf and almost all the way back to Oneroa Village including Delamore Drive with the vast majority of landowners actively engaged with an intention to eventually encompass the entire 430 hectares of Western Waiheke.

Dennis Scott’s vision was an applied landscape planning approach that leads a sustainable community-driven transformation based on his famous “5-R’s”: restoration, rehabilitation, reclamation, recreation and recovery.   

For over 25 years our landowners have been building on the original architect’s vision snd over time the residents have become collaborative conservation focussed units that may in time extend to incorporate all four of the original Western-Waiheke rural subdivisions. 

Our local landowners are reaching out to surrounding residents and joining forces with Waiheke’s leading conservation and environmental groups to play our part in aiding and supporting the preservation, conservation and protection of the land and surrounding environs including the adjoining DOC areas, the foreshore and surrounding seabed. 

Waiheke Island Western Entrance Headland Landscape Project

This internationally recognised project is the culmination of Dennis Scott’s vision award-winning for an applied landscape planning approach that has led to exceptional sustainable landscape transformation.

The entire western Waiheke landscape response area covers 430 ha. It sits, as its name implies, at the entry to the island, straddling the horseshoe harbour providing a new social and economic landscape for the island’s residents and the many visitors to Waiheke.

Fundamental to the landscape change was the landscape architect’s input into a new District Plan, the first under the umbrella of the then-new Resource Management Act 1991 (still unique in its approach to catchment management and landscape management) where additional development rights were offered in exchange for landscape protection and enhancement.