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Another major new subdivision is being proposed for Wellsford, this time for 400 homes on the former Buckton Farm between Worker Road and School Road.
Auckland developer Ellper Holdings has bought the 87-hectare block and is planning to apply for a private plan change to rezone the land from rural countryside living, residential single house and future urban to purely residential, split between large lots and single houses.
The 130 large lots of around 2500 square metres would cover 59 hectares at the northern end of the land, while 270 single house plots would fill the remaining 28 hectares to the south.
The proposals also include a new church to the west of Watson Place, almost opposite Wellsford
Cemetery, and a potential neighbourhood centre in the heart of the single house zone. Road access would mainly be via three points off Worker Road, with another new road going in just past the former Wellsford primary school site. There would also be a reserve and cycleway running through the centre of the subdivision.
Ellper Holdings says there would be significant benefits to developing the land, among them the provision of housing choice in the growing town, including affordable housing; identification of
Significant Ecological Areas and their protection and enhancement; and efficient use of land in close proximity to Wellsford town centre and quality connections between there and the subdivision.
Details of the Wellsford North West proposal will be provided at a public meeting at the town’s community centre on Saturday, December 9 between 10am and 1pm.
Ellper Holdings has one director, Neville Simmons, of Auckland.
