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PHOTO: ROSS GIBLIN This pocket park on the corner of Victoria and Dixon streets is an encumbrance. Owner Willis Bond & Co is required to keep it available and maintained as a public park.

Blink and you’ll miss it – perhaps forever.

A tiny park in the central city may be entering its final days as the city seeks to allow developers to use it as part of a new apartment complex.

The unnamed 100sqm park at 79 Dixon St, on the corner with Victoria St, is owned by property development company Willis Bond & Co, but has a council-imposed encumbrance over it.

It compels the property owner to maintain it and permit the Wellington City Council (WCC) and general public to use it as a public garden and seating at all times.

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