Proud to be a part of the changes coming to Glen Innes

After a cup of coffee at Nosh in Glen Innes, a suburb quickly becoming established as a great place for 'foodies', we took a stroll with Creating Communites' Project Director, Murdoch Dryden to see first hand the great changes the company is responsible for making in the area.

We could see evidence of the framework being put up for the homes along Eastview Road. These homes will be blessed with wonderful open views out to the mature trees in Maybury Reserve.

These homes will be coming to market shortly, so make sure you keep an eye out for more information at the website or like our Facebook page to keep up-to-date with progress.

Across the road and still within walking distance of the shopping complex and Maybury Reserve, we stopped to take a look at the completed homes at 75-79 Apirana Avenue.

These homes are now occupied by their new owners and their new tenants.

A quick trip in the car and Murdoch took us to view a large site on the corner of Radcliffe Street and Castledine Crescent where a number of old Housing New Zealand properties had been removed to make way for further development of the large sites.

We'll keep you posted on how that development proceeds in the future. Don't forget to like the Facebook page so you can stay informed of the wonderful progress Murdoch and his team are making in the area.

Creating warm and dry homes

Here at Creating Communities, we're working hard to build warm, dry and safe homes for future generations of New Zealanders.

How are we doing this?

We're taking Housing New Zealand's old, damp, fibrolite clad homes that have been plonked on timber piles in the middle of 800-900sqm sites, with no regard for to the street or the sun and replacing them with warm, comfortable and modern properties.

We are investing in upgrading the old 1940's underground infrastructure to bring them up to current standard. These upgrades also include devices to recharge groundwater systems and reduce peak stormwater flows into the local streams. 

Another question you might ask is whether or not the properties being removed from these sites could simply be refurbished on site. Don't old houses have have good bones?

Our answer would be, "No, this is not a suitable option for many reasons." A lot of the houses do have good bones, but to get to those good bones, you have to strip off the fibrolite cladding, get rid of the asbestos out of the vinyl and then there's the dreaded damp to be eliminated. Even if all of these complicated issues were dealt with, there is still the issue of the actual siting of the property on the land - it's lack of aspect to the road and the sun.

These homes are definitely poor housing stock in desperate need of removal.

The other thing to think about, whilst looking at the redevelopment as a whole is that we are also living in a city where the housing shortage is being talked about all the time.  Removing these single dwellings from their 900sqm sites and replacing them with multiple modern, comfortable homes makes sense on so many levels.

www.creatingcommunities.co.nz

Where great location meets smart design

Creating Communities is at the forefront of New Zealand’s largest urban regeneration project helping to address the ongoing issue of the shortage of housing supply in Auckland.

By making better use of local land and truly creating sustainable, mixed-tenure communities, they're providing more modern, healthy, warm and safe homes to people in need.

How do they do this? Creating Communities are taking Housing New Zealand's old and outdated properties, some are uninhabitable and many are on under-utilised sections and transforming them into warm, comfortable and modern Housing New Zealand properties.

They're creating a mix of Housing New Zealand homes, with the balance of properties built available for private sale, including a number of identical "affordable" homes.

The Creating Communities project is improving the quality of living for Glen Innes' people.

www.creatingcommunities.co.nz