Te Puawai Subdivision Redesigned For South Invercargill
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- Invercargill’s Te Puawai subdivision is set to expand by 100 to 200 sections, aiming to alleviate the city’s housing pressure.
- The subdivision’s redesign will introduce a range of housing types on the 70ha site, including smaller sections and duplex townhouses
A complete new design change for Invercargill’s Te Puawai subdivision will see between 100 and 200 more sections available in South Invercargill.
Te Puawai Developments was set up by the Rosemarie Foundation – a non-profit charitable trust, formerly known as The Christian Charitable Poverty Relief Trust.
The subdivision would go a long way towards alleviating some of the housing pressures in the city, but there has been frustration in the community about why it was taking so long. Related: Bluff Hill’s Transformation: 25m Sculpture to Celebrate Cultural Legends
Director John Elliott said business partner Phillipp Haas, who was originally from Wanaka, and now living overseas, would be in Invercargill later this month and they would be appointing a new project manager to keep things moving.
The 70ha site on the corner of Tramway and Rockdale Road originally had room for 600 new homes, and first time buyers would be given preferential consideration on sections.
“It’s been a bit of a mixed bag and we’ve changed the design, so we’ll end up with between 100 and 200 more sections,” he said.
The Invercargill City Council adopted a proposed private plan change in 2022, to rezone the 70.78ha site of rural land into a residential development.
John said the original design was uneconomic for South Invercargill and Stage 1 would now have sections ranging from 400sqm to 700 sqm – including back sections, two-storied duplex townhouses, and cul de sacs to create more a community of its own.
In 2023 the earthworks consent was granted, and now provisional approval had been given for the subdivision’s overall masterplan.
Resource consent for Stage one, consisting of 35 lots, would be lodged in the next month or two, and onsite work was planned for this summer, including earthworks and roadworks.
This would enable the first sections to be on the market in April 2025 – in the northwest corner of the subdivision. The new development designer is Don Moir of Ralph Moir Limited.
John said the delay was also due to the stormwater and the impact on the city’s water reticulation network, and consultants were being used to advise on upgrades – but that all came at a cost.