Name that street

Dairy Lane, Waipiko Dve, Willow Rd, and Rose Ave have been approved as street names and Manawanui as the reserve for the Waipiko Landing development in Te Awamutu.

Construction of the first 40 sections in Te Awamutu’s newest neighbourhood, Waipiko Landing is now complete and more than 100 residents are projected to be in their new homes in the coming year.

Resource consent for the development was granted in mid-2022 and it will feature 77 lots, three public roads and a private road.

The development is the first stage of the T11 growth cell in Te Awamutu and developer Veros told The News construction of the first 40 sections is complete and more than 100 residents are expected to be in new homes in 2025.

Waipiko Landing is 1.5km east of Te Awamutu town centre on a former dairy farm on Cambridge Road. It shares a boundary with the Te Awamutu Mega Centre and when fully complete, will be home for more than 2000 new residents.

Development Director, Sean Haynes said civil construction for Stage 1 has finished with the streets, footpaths, a wetland reserve and landscaping all complete, as well as the first stretch of a 3.5m wide pedestrian and cycle path that will link the neighbourhood with the surrounding cycle network.

Te Awamutu’s newest neighbourhood taking shape.

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