Plimmerton Farm enabling works.

You may have already seen some activity on-site in early 2025. With our consent granted, Plimmerton Farm will begin to take shape over the coming years.

Developing land revolves around the earthworking season, which extends from the 1st of October through the 31st of May. Activity can still occur during the winter months, which is monitored and highly regulated. Our bulk earthworks will take place in the earthworking season, while activities like civils construction, roads and trenching, etc., which have far less impact, can take place in the winter period subject to appropriate management and controls.

Our first season is a short one; whilst we have secured the consent, there are a number of management plans that we need to produce and have approved by councils, which outline how we will build the development and how we will protect the surrounding environment. These plans are created in conjunction with Ngati Toa, Wellington Water, and GWRC.

The first season, from Feb 25 to June 25, is focused on two things;

  1. Enabling works
  2. Building the track up to the new reservoir site and building its platform

Enabling works is essentially us setting up the site to start construction. This will involve environmental protections like putting up silt fencing and clearing the site where we intend to work of rubbish and some non-native trees that are in the roadway and fencing the site for safety. We also continue our monitoring of waterways and installing stock-proof fencing to connect with the existing fencing network to exclude stock from around areas of significant natural areas.

We will start to bring machinery onto site, and activity will ramp up over the following weeks.

The new reservoir site is significant in that it not only provides water for the houses to be built in Plimmerton Farm, but it also provides resilience for the wider community. The sheer scale is impressive. It’s 20 mega litres and will replace the temporary reservoirs we installed as part of the Mo Street extension to ensure a resilient water supply.