30 | DEVELOPMENT Prime Waipu location has plenty to offer Waipu Waterfront Estate has numerous beautiful beaches close at hand. Waipu Waterfront Estate A boutique design and build company with an unmatched commitment to personalized service. We take time to understand each clients unique needs and deliver the perfect home, within budget. Bring your own plans, choose one of ours, or have our team design one just for you. Proud build partner of WaipuWaterfront Estate 0508 ASH HOME www.ashleyhomes.co.nz build@ashleyhomes.co.nz For all Land Use, Regional and Subdivision consents, Site Feasibility Studies to Expert Evidence - we are your Land Development Partners. Ph: 0800 787 839 Email: Jarred@landsandsurvey.co.nz T T Richard Loader PROPERTY AND COMMERCIAL LAW SPECIALISTS PROPERTY LAW | TRUSTS, WILLS & ESTATES RELATIONSHOP PROPERTY | COMMERCIAL www.foleyhughes.co.nz Just minutes to Uretiti Beach, Waipu Cove and Langs Beach, with the beautiful golden sands of Bream Bay beckon a beach lifestyle at the thoughtfully planned Waipu Waterfront Estate, a residential development providing for paddle boarding, canoeing and other water activities. Thirty minutes south of Whangarei, the township of Waipu is brimming with a strong Scottish heritage and Waipu Waterfront Estate takes pride of place on the site where the original Scottish settlers landed in the 1850s. An easy five minute stroll from the development into the village centre, a relaxed café culture, local craft brewery and woodfire pizza restaurant, await local residents. Waipu Caves, with its impressive limestone formations, an underground lake and a galaxy of glow worms, is one of Northland’s best kept secrets, proving there is much to love about the township. Bordering the Waipu River, the four hectare, fifty-three section residential development is being led by Bryan Storey, through his company Three Rivers Estate Limited. Bryan says when you travel north over the Brenderwyn Hills you get the feeling you are in a different climate. It feels as though you are driving towards the sun. “The completion of the Puhoi – Warkworth SH1 Motorway has also vastly improved accessibility from Auckland.” Sections within the new development range from about 450qsm through to 650qsm, with price points starting at $399,000 and up to $630,000 for a waterfront site. “There are now twenty-four unconditional sales, several conditional sales, and about twenty seven sections left,” says Bryan. “Title will be due October/November, but people can start to apply for building consent now, with construction commencing during the summer period. So far, there’s been a mix of people who are currently living in Auckland and Waipu. “They may want to semi-retire and eventually retire there. There’s also a range of people who are now able to work from home and want the relaxed beach lifestyle. And there are some people who will simply build their forever home. So it covers a wide range of people from the retired to those with young families. There’s an opportunity to secure a nice section and build a house in that million dollar bracket, in a location that many people might regard as a holiday beach spot.” While Lands and Survey was engaged to complete the many civil engineering elements required for the project, Dempsey Wood Civil was selected to undertake the civil construction, because of their experience undertaking significant development projects throughout the country. “The development is being undertaken in one stage and is now at an advanced stage with all services in the ground. The major part of the earthworks is complete and we are currently forming roads. Dempsey Wood will be handing us back the completed subdivision in September/October.” The creation of a large foreshore recreational reserve between the front sections and the Waipu River on the bottom boundary forms a key part of Three Rivers Estate aesthetics. “The final layer on the cake is the landscape aesthetic, which is being designed by Littoralis Landscape Architecture, with Urban Design contracted to carry out the physical landscaping. A lot of careful detail has gone into paving and native planting. A lot of investment is going into it and it’s going to look stunning. That landscaping will include the recreational reserve, around the roading and on the section frontages. The developer will be responsible for the maintenance of that landscaping for the first year, with the Residents Society taking over thereafter with a planned maintenance programme.”
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