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Up to 40 new homes and a new access road are being planned as part of two new subdivisions on farmland that borders the back of Matakana’s Jubilee Park and Laly Haddon Place.
The new road will go in off Matakana Valley Road, just north of the tennis courts, and enter the development west of the stream that forms the back of Jubilee Park and Matakana Pony Club. There will also be access from Penney Rise, on the northern edge of Laly Haddon Place, potentially creating a new link between Matakana Road and Matakana Valley Road that bypasses the village centre.
Owner of the residential subdivision Richard Didsbury says there will be between 30 and 40 sections on his land, with initial work starting this year.
“It’s very early days, we haven’t got any designs yet,” he says. “It will be done in a number of stages and the very first stage of four sections will be this year. I anticipate it will all take a number of years.”
As part of the development, Mr Didsbury is working with the Matakana Community Group (MCG) to try to incorporate a walkway and cycle path along the stream, which would eventually form part of a planned round-village cycleway. Speaking at the MCG meeting on February 1, chair Simon Barclay said it was great to have Mr Didsbury’s support in the group’s efforts to provide a safe, uninterrupted off-road route from the school and Tamahunga Drive to Jubilee Park, the tennis courts and Matakana Valley Road.
