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| 3 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Venture Taranaki T T Karen Phelps Taranaki - the home of entrepreneurs Frey and Pam Livingston of Tokaora Diagnostics which won the PowerUp Kickstart Idea Competition in 2022. Taranaki is rapidly becoming known as a home for entrepreneurs, drawing people from all over New Zealand to take advantage of all the region has to offer in terms of supporting businesses, says Te Puna Umanga /Venture Taranaki CE Kelvin Wright. “With a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem, ideas and early-stage start-up are supported here. Thanks to a robust economy and population that’s big enough to sustain new business, many new arrivals make the most of the opportunity to start the venture they have been dreaming of,” he says. A key vehicle via which people set up a new business is Te Puna Umanga /Venture Taranaki’s PowerUp, an initiative that connects people with a range of new and existing services and opportunities. An important element is PowerUp Business Ready; delivered in partnership with SODA Inc, the programme takes entrepreneurs through a free six-week series of workshops, where they gain the tools and knowledge to validate their innovative idea or take their start-up to the next level. Kelvin says this type of initiative fits within a wider ecosystem and network of support in Taranaki. “No enterprise or entrepreneur should operate in isolation. In Taranaki we have interdependent systems, agencies, businesses, and networks available to entrepreneurs and enterprises to ensure they have every opportunity to flourish.” Tokaora Diagnostics, which went through the Te Puna Umanga /Venture Taranaki PowerUp Co Starters programme and won the PowerUp Kickstart Idea Competition in 2022, is a good example of how the initiatives are helping new businesses. Tokaora Diagnostics is developing a prototype of a commercial product (similar to a RAT test) that will enable facial eczema to be detected at low-cost and on-site by the farmer. This will allow the disease to be treated before it becomes a production issue and will also facilitate greater capacity for facial eczema resistance breeding in livestock increasing future herd resilience. Tokaora Diagnostics has now received funding from Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund to progress its product. Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki is the Regional Development Agency, for Taranaki. Kelvin says it has identified main areas of influence where intervention and a coordinated, intergenerational, and strategic approach is required to ensure positive regional outcomes, which include energy transition, food and fibre transition, visitor futures and destination development, and catalysing hitech innovation. Alongside its core enterprise support and enablement services Te Puna Umanga / Venture Taranaki promote Taranaki as a great place to invest, live, work, play, create, learn, and visit. Kelvin says Taranaki presents many compelling opportunities being home to energy and dairy sectors, engineering and primary production alongside its engrained entrepreneurial spirit. It is also leading New Zealand on its journey to a low-emissions economy utilising the potential of offshore renewable energy and offshore wind opportunity, as well as other alternative low-emissions energy options and innovations. “Collectively we’re committed to and progressing towards our transition to a low-emissions, high-value economy, harnessing our regional strengths, talent, and infrastructure to springboard our successes and continue to deliver on our strong national economic contribution,” he says. An example is Branching Out, a long-term strategic project for the region developed from Tapuae Roa and aligning to the Taranaki 2050 Roadmap, the region’s vision for a low-emissions future. The project aims to encourage food and fibre value chain diversification– not just looking at what can be grown in region, but also how it can add value through processing, manufacturing, and IP, explains Kelvin; as well as adding value to the economy by way of jobs, investment, and GDP, while building sectoral resilience through diversification. “Traditionally we have been a major player and leader in dairy, and this isn’t about a move away from this sector, it’s saying ‘let’s build others just like it’,” he says. Taranaki is also home to Ara Ake, New Zealand’s new energy development centre. “We’re investigating and attracting investment into offshore wind generation in Taranaki. This represents an important energy opportunity not only for the region, but Aotearoa New Zealand too, supporting our national net zero goals,” says Kelvin. Energy and food are supported by a rapidly growing tourism and events sectors, and Taranaki - Fast Facts • Population is 124,600 with around 80,000 people living in New Plymouth. • The region is split into three districts: New Plymouth to the north, Stratford in central Taranaki and South Taranaki, which includes the main centre, Hāwera. • The workforce in Taranaki has long enjoyed competitive wages and some of the highest rates of GDP in New Zealand, with the highest regional contribution to GDP outside of the main centres, currently sitting third behind Auckland and Wellington. “In Taranaki we have interdependent systems, agencies, businesses, and networks available to entrepreneurs and enterprises to ensure they have every opportunity to flourish.” Kelvin Wright Kelvin says visitors are increasingly becoming aware of Taranaki’s slice of paradise. “Year-round we promote our region to visitors, and increasingly we’re hearing that after visiting people are making plans to move here, with some bringing their existing businesses along with them. “With our affordable housing and work-life balance, thriving arts and events sector and natural landscapes and outdoors activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy in Taranaki.”
4 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Venture Taranaki: Vortex International T T Hugh de Lacy FromNew Plymouth to the world While much of Vortex International’s machinery has ended up on oil rigs, more and more is being used by the rapidly expanding global windfarm industry. “The windfarm market is growing round the world, and our tools are specifically designed for preparing the seabed for windfarm foundations.” • CNC MILLING • CNC TURNING • CAD DRAWING • PROGRAMMING • MANUFACTURING COMPONENTS ONE OFF • PROTOTYPE | MASS PRODUCTION 11 Mustang Drive, Bell Block, New Plymouth superiormachining.co.nz 027 270 00115 | 06 755 0005 We are proud to support Joe (Vortex International) with his innovative ideas. It is rewarding to see Vortex’s specialized tools successfully making the international stage. SPECIALISED IN QUALITY PRECISION ENGINEERING SERVICES IF YOU HAVE A PROJECT CHALLENGE, PLEASE TALK TO US, WE CAN PROBLEM SOLVE, DESIGN, DRAW AND MACHINE ANY TYPE OF COMPONENTRY Mob 0274 827916 50 McAlpine Rd, RD 12 Hawera 4672 ATTHEWS NGINEERING ME Phone John on 06 278 7170 Hydraulics, Towing Eye Replacements, Certified Welding & lt400 Repairs, Deck Manufacturing & Repairs, All General Engineering Services From oil rigs to windfarms, Joe Goodin’s one-man operation Vortex International is manufacturing in New Zealand - and renting or selling worldwide - critical underwater machinery such as camera winches, dredges and gas sampling tools for off-shore energy companies. From the background of a Taranaki dairy farm, where home-skilled engineering was part of the job, Joe completed an apprenticeship as an automotive machinist in New Plymouth before hiving off around the world to work on oil rigs. From the North Sea to the Middle East, Joe plied his trade in the oil industry, but was all the while hunting for a niche market into which he could sell specialist machinery of his own design. While working off-shore on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in 2000, he started making prototypes of machinery to meet the challenges of working under the sea. Joe identified a need for implements that could be attached to and work remotely on ROVs in the likes of site establishment for under-sea foundations, and even for clearing old World War II mines and torpedos from the sea-bed. This became the market niche Joe targeted. The business structure he came up with allowed him to operate as a one-man-band, designing machinery, having the components manufactured by various companies around New Zealand, assembling the machines in New Plymouth, then mostly hiring the finished products out, ultimately to companies servicing drilling rigs and, later, windfarms. In 2009 Joe formed Vortex International in partnership with his then wife, Jane Hickey. Today Vortex International has a particularly close relationship with the world’s largest off-shore tooling rental company Ashtead Technology, which is based in Aberdeen, Scotland, with branches in Houston, Texas, and Singapore, and carries a vast inventory of plant that it rents out globally. Ashtead buys and rents out Vortex machinery along with its other products, and splits the rent with Joe 60/40, with Joe getting the larger portion. “We invoice Ashtead in US and Singapore dollars, and in British pounds, and we’re the only company in the world making camera winches of any kind. “I’m the sole operator and director and have no overheads because I contract out all the work – and that’s a beautiful thing,” Joe says. The winches carry sonars, cameras and 3D scanning equipment, and Vortex also produces tools for environmental protection around decommissioning sites, and for testing gas leaks from oil wells, and even measuring underwater volcanic output. Joe sells as well as rents out his machinery - $3 million in sales to Brazil and China last year – with these making up around 40% of his company’s income. While much of Vortex International’s machinery has ended up on oil rigs, more and more is being used by the rapidly expanding global windfarm industry. Typical of the work Vortex is picking up in that field is the Neart na Gaoithe windfarm being built 15.5km off the Fife coast in Scotland, and which will eventually power 375,000 Scottish homes while offsetting 400,000t of carbon dioxide emissions a year. “The windfarm market is growing round the world, and our tools are specifically designed for preparing the seabed for windfarm foundations. In the not-too-distant future we’ll see windfarms sprouting up in the Taranaki Basin, ultimately replacing all those oil rigs out there,” Joe says.
| 5 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Venture Taranaki: Vortex International Carving out a niche: Joe Goodin with children, Daisy and Lenny. PRECISION MACHINED COMPONENTS FOR ANY INDUSTRY, ANY TIME. Machining | Fabrication | Plant Maintenance Site Assessments | Installation | General Engineering 73 Corbett Road, Bell Block, New Plymouth | ben@oilsteel.co.nz | 022 102 7359 www.oilsteel.co.nz CONTACT FIND US ON FACEBOOK • DESIGN + MANUFACTURE • CNC MILLING + TURNING • MANUAL MACHINING • TOOLMAKING + GRINDING PRECISION MACHINING SPECIALISTS PROUDLY WORKING WITH JOE AND VORTEX 06 755 1371 6 Cygnet Drive, New Plymouth 4312 workshop@connettengineering.co.nz Fabricators of Aluminium Storage Boxes for Vortex Subsea Solutions. Bell Block, Taranaki info@superiorstainless.co.nz superiorstainless.co.nz 06 755 0688
6 | Helping the switch to renewables Elemental Group was founded in 2012 in Taranaki offering a suite of consultancy and development services. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT The perfect partner can be hard to find When it comes to business advice, it’s important to nd a partner you can trust. At the Accounting Room we’re commited to helping Taranaki businesses to get ahead. We provide upfront and honest advice on a range of things you worry about. If you’re looking for the perfect business partner - Call us (06) 759 1591 theaccountingroom.co.nz T T Karen Phelps Elemental Group has been helping people worldwide to transition to more renewable energy solutions – all from its Taranaki base. “Since we started a lot of our staff has worked from home. This experience has enabled us to work offshore more easily for our international clients that have allowed us to continue to support their projects remotely. So someone in Taranaki could be helping to support a power system in Kiribati,” explains Elemental Group director Brett Rogers. Elemental Group is an international energy company that was founded in 2012 in Taranaki offering a suite of consultancy and development services. With a team of specialists covering the energy sector, Elemental has completed projects worldwide, from small Pacific island nations to the UK’s first offshore wind farm. Brett says that Elemental is passionate about contributing to a carbon-zero future by providing solutions that help communities transition and reap the benefits of a more sustainable world. To do this it leverages its extensive experience consulting and managing energy projects worldwide, collaborating with local and international parties to help New Zealand achieve its climate targets and go beyond. Nature-based solutions to protect the environment are the focus including solar, wind and energy storage. Brett sees significant opportunities in Taranaki in particular for offshore wind. “South Taranaki is probably the best offshore wind province in the country, which means the opportunity to develop a significant industry here with all the spin off effects in terms of jobs and the economy,” he says. “By harnessing this abundant, world-class resource in Taranaki it could help enable wide scale decarbonisation of New Zealand’s energy sector – transportation, industrial users, manufacturing and more.” In conjunction with Spanish based company BlueFloat Energy, Elemental is in the feasibility phase of two offshore wind projects, a 900 MW fixed turbine project 22km off the south coast of Taranaki and a 1,400 MW fixed and floating turbine project off the west coast of Waikato. In another venture Elemental Group and Energy Estate have joined together to develop a portfolio of renewable energy projects. Brett says the joint venture combines complementary skills and experience in the New Zealand and global renewable energy industry. “The plan is to provide an array of technologies and solutions. These opportunities will accelerate decarbonisation by supporting new, reliable, and lowest cost generation, providing Venture Taranaki: Elemental Group 24/7 power for industry, encouraging new industry to New Zealand, and creating skilled, clean jobs,” says Brett. He says that Elemental realises the transition to a cleaner future is a journey and with sustainable projects taking years to develop it is important the changeover is carefully planned. Elemental is dedicated to helping companies in their conversation and is known for providing expert, unbiased advice on energy projects and finding best-fit solutions. The company’s work offshore means it can bring on the ground experience with the latest technologies back to New Zealand. Brett says that Elemental is dedicated to its strategy of a Taranaki base with a global focus. “You can live and work in Taranaki and your work can be anywhere in the world now. We’re a growing company and often have new opportunities for talented individuals who are passionate about all things energy and are looking for a role that is truly impactful.”
| 7 Making waves with the ‘Juno Effect’ Taranaki gin distillers Dave and Jo James brought the Juno brand into the world in 2017. Venture Taranaki: Juno Gin REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT T T Richard Loader Design, Installation & Servicing of • Water Pumps • Water Treatments • Irrigation Systems • Solar Pumping Systems • FarmWater Design • Plumbing New address: 12 Oropuriri Road, Waiwhakahio PROUDLY SUPPORTING JUNO EFFECT 06 757 5064 • taranaki@thinkwater.co.nz • www.thinkwater.co.nz/taranaki The Juno Effect is a concept that describes the ripple effect created by one business on other businesses within the same commercial ecosystem, and was cleverly used by Taranaki gin distillers Dave and Jo James, who brought the Juno brand into the world in 2017. “The Juno Effect is a consequence of our existence,” says Jo. “When we talk about the Juno Effect, we are referring to the secondary businesses that also benefit from our existence, and of course we from them. We very much work in collaboration. Our ethos is all around win/win. We work with people. If we do research, we open source it because everyone will win from that activity.” The genesis for the Juno Effect was a bright idea on thinking about fairness and stemmed from Juno’s inclusion in the 2017 Auckland Food Show, where Juno had its national launch. For Taranaki food businesses, the regional development agency for Taranaki, Venture Taranaki, had provided half the cost of a stand at the Food Show, enabling eight Taranaki businesses to attend and showcase their products. With the cost to get a stand running well into the thousands, to get half of it paid by Venture Taranaki was a very valuable bonus, particularly for a start-up business such as Juno. Dave and Jo were concerned that they had been given an advantage but realised it was not just theirs and the seven other businesses that were being showcased at the Food Show. Yes, the Juno brand is there, but contributing to the Juno development and success story were at least fifty other businesses, from the suppliers of raw materials through to their marketing company. Extrapolating that out to the other seven businesses, that is around four hundred other Taranaki businesses, yet only eight get to be at the Food Show. “So, the Juno Effect was a concept that Jo and I came up with to demonstrate that our business was not just our business,” explains Dave. “We are a collective of many other organisations around Taranaki, which have all contributed to the overall opportunity for us to be in the position we’re in now.” The Juno Effect is really the consequences of a business’s existence, and as concepts go it is hardly new. In the business of writing business stories, the importance of building relationships with customers, suppliers and staff is a mantra that I frequently hear. What Dave and Jo seek to do quite openly is bring it all to life — to live and breathe it with everything that they do. “Businesses that work alone don’t necessarily contribute to community or build regional economic prosperity,” says Jo. “Businesses that collaborate, work cooperatively, and have rich business relationships, rather than one-dimensional transactional relationships, are the ones that build economic strength in the regions and become a success story, not just for themselves, but a number of other businesses. “We wanted a way to describe that, and the catch-phrase The Juno Effect really came from that. We’re trying to say, this business couldn’t be what it is without all of these other businesses. That’s true for most businesses, it’s just that not everyone takes the time to sit down and describe it, and say ‘what does this look like for the region?’” Without Juno gin, all of these other businesses would be just a little smaller than what they are now, because they have all gained something from Juno shopping locally, building collaborations, building the business network. That is the Juno Effect. “Our business, was never to set up the Juno Effect. It was always to build a brand and a product, but the way we set about it was by working collegially and in so doing, building something for Taranaki.” When establishing the business at the very outset, Dave and Jo were asked if they wanted to set up a company that was a cash cow, boom and bust, or did they want to set up a legacy company; something that had value and longevity. “We have always been on the legacy side,” says Dave. “We wanted to create something that will benefit us and the community in the long term. The Juno Effect is one part of how we manifest that passion. We have three company values: make it fun, make it together and make it right – the Juno Effect reflects the make it together value.” The question for other businesses is, where does the Juno Effect sit within their own business ecosystems? “When we talk about the Juno Effect, we are referring to the secondary businesses that also benefit from our existence, and of course we from them.” businesscentral Each edition priority delivered to your door. . Stay informed; we work with business owners and decision-makers across all economic sectors, pro iling their success. i ; i i i i - ll i , ili i . www.waterfordpress.co.nz/subscriptions . . . i i 03 983 5525 03 983 5525 Your Business, Your Industry, Your News. Volume 6 | Issue 2 | April 2021 www.waterfordpress.co.nz ‘Excellence in Energy’ Taranaki’s Todd Energy will have a key role to play as New Zealand moves toward a low emissions economy. Page 8 Waikato farmers Dean & Ang Finnerty have expanded their dairy cow operation into a successful goat milking enterprise as well PAGE 10 Turning challenge into opportunity AUTUMN 2022 www.waterfordpress.co.nz Volume 6 | Issue 3 | July 2021 www.waterfordpress.co.nz Making waves Back on track New Zealand hydrofoil maker Armstrong is generating interest around the world with its high performance products. Work on the ambitious NZCIS facility in Upper Hutt is progressing well after Covid disruptions. PAGE 70 PAGE 10 Healthy delivery A new elective surgery facility in Hastings will provide a big boost to the region’s operating capacity. PAGE 52 Volume 6 | Issue 5 | December 2021 www.waterfordpress.co.nz Cheers Boys! YoungWellington irm3Māori Boys is creating a buzz with it’s ground-breakingWai Manuka natural beverage. PAGE 45 Passion and pride New Plymouth’s Energyworks has forged a strong reputation in 50 years of business. 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8 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Making a valuable contribution ANZCO Food’s Eltham Plant makes a major contribution to the Taranaki region. Venture Taranaki: ANZCO Foods - Eltham • Refrigerated freight • Container Haulage • Swing lifters Bridge Street, Eltham • Phone (06) 764 8205 • www.uhlenbergs.co.nz Industrial Chemistry Services is an IANZ accredited Water testing Laboratory and consulting business in Stratford, Taranaki We have been working with ANZCO Foods at Eltham for more than 20 Years, providing them with Analytical Laboratory Testing and Advice, with services such as Environmental Monitoring; Soil Sampling and Testing; Equipment Calibration; Water Sampling and Testing; Water Treatment Advice and Troubleshooting. We look forward to another 20+ years working together. 06 765 5976 www.icsnz.co.nz Stratford Taranaki 06 765 5976 www.karinawater.com Karina Water is a producer of water treatment chemical with customers throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. We also Build and Operate Potable Water Treatment Plants. Providing solutions throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. Karina Water has been providing ANZCO Foods at Eltham with water treatment chemicals for more than 10 years. Keeping their potable water in top condition with our Flocculants PAC Plus and Chemfloc 2321 Taranaki is an important part of ANZCO Foods’ business with two of the company’s nine red meat operations in the region. The company’s focus is to deliver health, nutrition and wellbeing to world from New Zealand’s finest beef and lamb. ANZCO Foods Eltham employs about 530 people and processes beef while ANZCO Foods Waitara has about 165 employees manufacturing burger patties and jerky. Farmers throughout the region supply the Eltham site which operates year-round with the peak season from March to May. Key international markets for the site are the US, China, and the Middle East. Around a fifth of the products produced at ANZCO Foods Eltham go to the New Zealand market, with the site providing prime steak cuts to restaurants and supplying the ANZCO Foods Waitara manufacturing site that produces hamburger patties for a multi-national restaurant chain and jerky for international customers. “The site has come safely through the Covid pandemic and is still working a yearround double shift despite the industry-wide challenges of acquiring livestock and sourcing labour,” says Troy Lambly, Site Manager of ANZCO’s Eltham and Manawatu plants. “We recognise the labour challenge is a global issue across many industries so we’re focused on looking after our existing team with a range of initiatives, as well as attracting new people to our business. “Scholarships for immediate families of our waged employees has been a really successful programme,” says Troy. “We provide $5,000 a year for up to three years for five students going to university or completing an apprenticeship. The calibre of applications has blown us out of the water and it’s nice to be able to make a difference to these young people’s lives.” “Our ‘What’s your reason?’ recruitment campaign recognises that people come to work for a range of reasons – from helping their families get ahead to saving for an overseas trip, or from keeping fit to paying for hobbies outside work. And we know many people enjoy their work because of their great workmates,” Troy says. “As a big employer in the region we take this responsibility seriously and we have a range of ways we contribute to our communities.” Taranaki rural schools also annually benefit from ANZCO Foods’ Sponsor a School programme. Last year rural primary schools across New Zealand received more than $140,000 from ANZCO Foods with several recipients located in Taranaki. ANZCO Foods has a special focus on the mental wellbeing of employees, farmer-suppliers, and communities. It supports six Surfing for Farmer venues around New Zealand including Opunake in Taranaki. ANZCO also contributes around $300m to the local economy each year through wages and livestock and supplier payments.
| 9 Global demand for TrackGrip products Venture Taranaki: Carac Group REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT T T Richard Loader Heather McDonald, John Burling, Yvonne Burling, and Sonia Kiser. Carac Group’s push over the last 18 months now sees TrackGrip sold by 20 retailers through one hundred stores across 20 US states. The last eighteen months have been a breathtaking journey for Eltham-based engineering manufacturer Carac Group, establishing several contract manufacturing facilities in America, along with dedicated warehouses and distribution centres for its world-famous TrackGrip product. Designed and developed by Carac Group in 2010, the TrackGrip range of patented products significantly improve traction, stability and safety on excavators, providing exceptional sideways protection and have been distributed all over the world. Carac Group’s push over the last 18 months now sees TrackGrip sold by twenty retailers through one hundred stores across twenty states throughout America, with a significant upward growth trajectory. “We are being approached daily worldwide by major machinery suppliers and supply chains for our TrackGrip products,” says Carac Group CEO Sonia Kiser, whose parents John and Yvonne Burling founded the innovative business over three decades ago. “We are also working with a team from Gold Rush, a reality programme on Discovery Channel that focuses on gold mining, often in very remote areas and difficult terrains. “They are really big advocates of Carac and want to showcase our TrackGrip products on Discovery Channel. That would be a huge marketing opportunity on its own for us. There would be no better marketing opportunity in the world than this.” No man or business is an island, and Sonia emphasises that Carac Group’s success in the American market has been the result of many players and strong, supportive teamwork. “We contracted international sales experts Apagie to do the market research and validation into America, to enable entry into that very huge and important market. We also worked alongside accounting and business performance specialists Velocite; New Zealand Trade and Enterprise; and Taranaki Chamber of Commerce. “They have all helped with everything from strategy to market research, to funding, to sales. So there has been a team of people and businesses helping us get to where we have got over the last eighteen months. It has been a huge eighteen months with myself having had four trips to the US this year to help set this all up.” The foundation of Carac Group was based on John Burling’s design, development and parts, including our own core products, and products that we contract manufacture for customers worldwide. The automation and state of the art machinery makes us one of the most productive and efficient operations throughout the world. “We do everything in-house and provide an end-to end service to our customers no matter where in the world they may be. We’re quite unique with what we can do here. There have been some jobs in the past where we have been the only ones in the world who could do this.” Sonia also attributes the company’s success to family involvement, the Taranaki team, and says supporting the local community is a core value. “We’re quite unique with what we can do here. There have been some jobs in the past where we have been the only ones in the world who could do this.” patent of a new trailer coupling that was easy to use and stronger than anything else on the market. Since that auspicious beginning, Carac Group’s star has continued to shine, evolving as an innovative end-to-end engineering/manufacturing business with a respected reputation for innovation on the international stage. The award winning Taranaki business has eight state of the art engineering facilities that lead the world with high precision cutting-edge machinery, producing products that are commercialised and marketed globally. Working alongside customers worldwide in research, development, design, and innovation, Carac manufactures quality solutions and products for the automotive, agricultural, construction, oil and gas, marine, engineering and utility industries around the world. “We manufacture over 4500 products and
10 | T T Karen Phelps Longview Hāwera key part of strategy Recent projects include a new co-working space and enterprise hub on High Street - Te W’anake The Foundry REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT South Taranaki District Council: Veros - Longview PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTORS Established in 1973 ROADING | SUBDIVISIONS | SITE WORKS | EARTHWORKS | DRAINAGE | TRUCKS CONSTRUCTION | CONCRETE & KERBING | DEMOLITION | AGGREGATE & TOPSOIL SUPPLY EXCAVATORS 1.5 - 30 TONNE | SKID STEER LOADERS P: (06) 758 1931 E: RɝFH#JUDKDPKDUULV FR Q] ZZZ JUDKDPKDUULV FR Q] Hāwera is undergoing a transformation and in the process is attracting new people and businesses to set up in the region, says South Taranaki District Council business development manager Scott Willson. One major project council has been involved in has been Longview Hāwera, the largest subdivision the district has ever seen. It will deliver 259 new homes and sections built in five stages with sections of varying sizes. People can either purchase a section or a house and land package. Scott says council has worked alongside developer Panda Developments and Veros, on key infrastructure to open up the land for development. One such project has been upgrading the water supply along Turuturu Road and neighbouring Ohangai Road. It was initially part of the council’s 20212031 Long Term Plan, but Longview helped bring the work forward. Scott says council has also assisted with the planning and consenting requirements for Longview and provided help to the Longview marketing team regarding information about the benefits of Hāwera for those thinking of moving there. It’s part of the council’s overarching plan to drive investment, resilience, jobs and economic growth in the district,” says Scott. “Longview is a new type of residential master planned neighbourhood on the northern outskirts of Hāwera’s existing boundary so helps grow and energise the district,” he says. “The vision the developers have is to make Longview a great place to live so it’s pretty exciting for the district.” It will link to pedestrian access to the township, where South Taranaki District Council and Bizlink Hāwera are working on a plan for a new town centre, which is more welcoming, attractive and vibrant. “The Hāwera Town Centre Upgrade will provide real potential to build a vibrant and economically sustainable town centre that will attract new residents, business and visitors,” he says. It involves a suite of improvements including development of a new Library/cultural/ civic centre and greenspace in the central business district, improved pedestrian and car park connections, lighting improvements to highlight heritage buildings, redevelopment of the existing town square for retail and office “At South Taranaki District Council we have a can-do attitude and are committed to working to the long-term plan, which is to create the most liveable district.” development and actions to encourage traffic into the town centre. The largest of these projects is the new library, arts, culture and public space Te Ramanui o Ruapūtahanga. Scott says it will combine a number of facilities onto one site, providing people with a wide-range of services, information, cultural and educational resources, bringing additional foot traffic and visitors to the town centre. Scott says the pandemic has highlighted to many that they don’t necessarily need to live in the large centres to work. Other recent projects include a new co-working space and enterprise hub on High Street called Te W’anake The Foundry and the South Taranaki Business Park is in close proximity to Hāwera CBD. A new state co-educational school for Year 7 – 15 students called Te Paepae o Aotea opened this year. “Anecdotally it feels like more people are moving to Hāwera and South Taranaki in general. “The lifestyle here is a big draw card - and it’s still close to bigger centres like New Plymouth and Wanganui – and housing is more affordable. “At South Taranaki District Council we have a can-do attitude and are committed to working to the long-term plan, which is to create the most liveable district. “All of these projects, including Longview, are part of the vibrancy and prosperity that contributes to that vision.”
| 11 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT South Taranaki District Council: Veros - Longview Longview Hāwera will deliver 259 new homes built in five stages with sections of varying sizes. 17a Brougham St, New Plymouth 4310 P +64 6 758 1021 M +64 21 543 693 E stefan@taylorpatrick.co.nz www.taylorpatrick.co.nz Experts in Land and Infrastructure Development. Land development and surveying experts Taylor Patrick was integral in helping to deliver Longview in Hāwera. Originally the land was zoned industrial and Taylor Patrick was part of the process to determine the best use of the land. In collaboration with Veros, and other key stakeholders including council, it was identi ied the land was best suited to residential development. Taylor Patrick’s vision was to enhance the Hāwera community in a way that was aesthetically pleasing, sustainable and environmentally responsible. They have taken great care to ensure every aspect of the design and build phase was in line with the vision, and believe that Longview can serve as a model for e ective community development. Taylor Patrick worked on the overall concept masterplan for the wider land holding, then undertook the resource consenting phase with district and regional councils. This involved engagement with key stakeholders such as iwi and KiwiRail, and multiple expert reports including ecology, landscape and tra ic. The formal process to relocate an old un-used ‘paper road’ was a particular challenge. Once consents were secured Taylor Patrick collaborated with civil and geotechnical engineers on the detailed design of roading, Taylor Patrick Surveying earthworks and utilities, then with council to obtain design approvals to start construction. With 10-years experience in land development under his belt, Sam Broadmore, Taylor Patrick Licensed Cadastral Surveyor, was surveyor lead on the project design and build phases. “A lot of ine detail went into the design of the streetscape and a lot of time was spent on site communicating that to the contractors to deliver such a high quality outcome” says Sam. Taylor Patrick owner Stefan Kiss says it was really tight timeframes involved. Sam and Stefan say they are particularly proud of the quality of the inishing of the streetscape and landscaping. “This project shows we can deliver really complex large scale land development projects and apply the resource and expertise needed right through from design to consenting, project and site management, achieving titles and delivering a liveable new community. At Taylor Patrick we are passionate about delivering great outcomes for our communities and the environment through good design, engagement and collaboration.”
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