The Tauranga Domain is returning to its usual state following the annual One Love Festival held over Waitangi Weekend.

More than 15,000 people made their way down to the domain to enjoy two-days of music and entertainment during the fourth annual festival which took place on Saturday and Sunday.

The Tauranga Domain on Monday following the One Love Festival which took place over Waitangi Weekend. Photo: Bruce Barnard

As part of One Love's resource consent they have until today to remove the stage, fencing and temporary structures, plus all rubbish from the Tauranga Domain and surrounding area.

'As you can expect with the thousands of people who came to One Love over the weekend there's a lot to clean up,” says festival director Pato Alvarez.

'We had people cleaning up rubbish while the festival was taking place over the weekend and since it wrapped up crews have also been working hard to clean up the domain and surrounding streets.”

Tauranga City Council communication advisor Marcel Currin describes Monday as 'a very messy day”.

He says there was broken glass and litter strewn along Cameron Road and all side streets from Hamilton Street, down to Brown/Mission Street and across to Cliff Road, including Robbins Park.

'The event organiser was responsible for cleaning from all the streets from Wharf Street to Park Street. They have advised that they cleaned these streets on both nights until 1am,” says Marcel.

'It appears that the more heavily littered streets were actually the streets that they were not required to clean. That is a learning for future events, along with a need for council to consider beefing up the street cleaning schedule on major event weekends.”