Our city-wide community engagement event in Lower Hutt.

Kāinga Ora Wellington Region Community Update

Kia ora Neighbours and Community Stakeholders,

There have been a lot of great things happening across the Wellington region and we wanted to share an update with you.

If you haven't checked it out yet, you can now find all of the latest information on our development projects on our webpage kaingaora.govt.nz/wellington. We have developed interactive maps for each city in our region (Wellington, Porirua, Kāpiti, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Wairarapa) to enable you to see a city-wide view of our development projects, which we update regularly.

We are committed to keeping our communities informed throughout the development journey and share the work we are doing in the community. If you have any questions about our projects, please feel free to contact us.

Wellington Region Community Engagement and Partnerships Team
wellingtondevelopments@kaingaora.govt.nz

Wellington

Kāinga Ora and Wellington City Mission have officially opened Te Ō

Te Ō will bring 80 new warm, dry homes to central Wellington, in a single site supported housing facility that combines housing with on-site support services. The first of its kind for Wellington, this tailored model of supported housing, delivered by Wellington City Mission, is designed to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for people living there. For more information click here.

Newtown Festival

We had an awesome time celebrating Children's Day with some of our youngest customers and neighbours at the Newtown Festival. It was great being among other Wellingtonians and sharing the work we are doing in the area.

Porirua

Launch of new Environmental Cadetship Programme

Te Rā Nui, Eastern Porirua Development, one of our large-scale projects, celebrated the launch of their Environmental Cadetship Programme. Over the next three years, the programme will help local residents gain valuable qualifications and on the job training through planting 100,000 native trees. For more information about this initiative - click here.

Approved Spatial Plan
Through taking a deeper dive with community at our Hui tahi tātou o Porirua engagement we received meaningful feedback including 20,000 comments from the community on the future of eastern Porirua. These insights helped shape our final Eastern Porirua Spatial Plan, which was approved by Kāinga Ora's Board setting the direction for the Te Rā Nui - Eastern Porirua Development for the next 20+ years.

Welcome to Tē Pātē

Since opening in November 2023, Tē Pātē Community Space, is consistently active with community led activities, managed by Wesley Community Action's Timebank Initiative. We are proud to share that in April 2024, Tē Pātē received a Placemaking Aotearoa Kūmara Award in the 'It takes a village' category.

New homes at Drivers Crescent

It was lovely celebrating the completion of our new homes at Driver's Crescent with a blessing, delivered by Dr Taku Parai with speeches shared from Te Pae Whakahou Hapori Board Chair Magele Maria Uluilelata and Deputy Mayor Kylie Wihapi. One of our new customers also attended, walking us through her new home with pride and excitement.

Community Survey

The Eastern Porirua Community Survey was a huge success with 1200 responses from community members. This feedback will help provide Te Rā Nui with a baseline for how the project is supporting change over time. We hope to be able to update the community with the results later this year.

Kāpiti

New homes delivered in Ōtaki

Two developments have been completed in Ōtaki which will provide 7 new warm, dry homes, for local families. These were the first off-site manufatured homes delivered in the area, so we hosted an open home for the community and key stakeholders to check them out. The feedback from community was very positive and it was great having local media come through too.

Launch of the Raumati Community Liaison Group

Huge thanks to Bede Laracy, Raumati Community Board member and Sophie Handford, Councillor for Kāpiti Coast District Council for supporting the establishment of the Raumati Community Liaison Group (RCLG) and the new chairs Alison Molloy and Mike Doyle. This group was formed to support community input into the Raumati Rd project from the onset. For this project, we are currently in the site investigations phase and thankful for the willingness of the community to work alongside side us as we navigate next steps.

Lower Hutt

New Homes in Naenae

In the early hours of the morning local mana whenua blessed the completed homes at 19 Hewer Crescent, Naenae. This was a great project seeing Weltec/Whitireia students learn new carpentry and construction skills while constructing the front home off-site. We also repurposed the existing home by moving it to the back of the property and are upgrading it through our retrofit programme. We have several more developments in the pipeline, keep an eye out for our 'New homes coming soon' signage.

Connecting with community

We really enjoyed getting to present at the Lower Hutt Rotary Club Meeting to share an update about our Epuni precinct. This community is committed to working alongside us to get good outcomes as the project comes close to completion.

We also attended a back-to-school event, alongside support agencies, at Taita Central School. This was a great opportunity to connect with our customers and the wider community and update them on our plans for the area.

Upper Hutt

Homes that make a difference

We recently completed a new accessible home on McHardie Street for our customer Shirley and her husband. The couple have lived on McHardie street for 20 years and loved watching the development journey of their new home being constructed. Their old home is now in the process of being retrofitted for another family to move into.

Wairarapa

New Homes at George Street

It's great to be back in the Wairarapa. We celebrated the completion of 12 new homes on George Street in Masterton. Customers have moved in and are enjoying their new community.

Community Day for Iorns Street North Customers

We had a lovely time at the Iorns Street North Community Day, delivered in partnership with Emerge Aotearoa and Masterton District Council (MDC). It provided an opportunity for families, on the newly completed site, to meet each other. We used MDC's play for streets process to create one of the first play streets in the district, enabling kids to ride their bikes and enjoy lots of play activities with their whānau on site.

Staying informed

We are committed to keeping our communities updated as we progress with plans for homes in your region. You can check out our interactive maps to find the most up to date development information in your area.

Questions?

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