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Gull NZ has applied for resource consent to build a petrol (and diesel) station on the Hibiscus Coast, near Millwater.
The Automobile Association’s senior policy analyst, Mark Stockdale describes Gull as “The Warehouse of the fuel industry”. It’s expected to have a big impact on local petrol prices should the proposed station get the go-ahead.
Mr Stockdale says that the effect Gull has had in other areas, of forcing its competitors to lower their prices, is known as “the Gull effect”.
The cost of petrol on the Coast has been a contentious issue, with prices at competing companies often similar to each other, providing little choice – an issue Hibiscus Matters investigated in its May 4 edition.
Gull keeps its prices down through lower overheads (a lot of the stations are unmanned) coupled with a different supply chain and cheaper product. The company currently has 15 sites in Auckland, with the nearest to the Coast being Albany, Greville Rd and Kumeu. There are two independent Gull stations in Warkworth.
The proposed Gull station, on Wainui Road, is to be a 24-hour, unmanned site. The address of the proposed station is 315 Wainui Rd, but it is actually located a little away from that location – on a separate block of land with the Northern Motorway to the east, the motorway off ramp to the north, Wainui Road to the west with the flyover into Millwater to the south.
Gull has requested that the resource consent application be non-notified. It is currently being processed and no decisions regarding notification have been made at this stage.
