The suburb includes over 1500 households, ‘Churton Park’ (a recreational sports field with awesome childrens play equipment), a primary school, and a kindergarten. A local community center with shops is proposed, but construction has yet to start.
It has been developed as a family-oriented suburb with spacious executive houses, lots of little parks, wide avenue style roads, and walkways between cul-de-sacs. It is also one of Wellington’s most culturally diverse areas, with people from China, India and South Africa; on a summer’s evening the cooking smells can be tantalizing – garlic, lemon grass, spices, and the traditional Kiwi BBQ.
Churton Park is the main area of new housing in North Wellington, with more than 70 building consents issued in 2006 and around 1,300 new houses proposed for Stebbings Valley. It’s hoped work on a shopping centre development will begin in 2011.
Churton Park School is the suburb’s only primary school.It is decile 10 and has a very credible reputation both within and outside the community. As the suburb’s only school, good reputation, and growing population, the school’s roll has rapidly increased over the years. To accommodate these increases, there have been many renovations to the school’s buildings within the last 10 years. A new site for a larger school has been proposed. More info at the links below
There are no intermediate schools or colleges within the area, so many students attend Raroa Normal Intermediate, Newlands Intermediate, Onslow College and Newlands College; all within the local Johnsonville and Newlands area.
The geography of the land is quite hilly and has dense bush in some areas that have not been excavated for housing sub-divisions. Steep hills eventually extend over to the Ohariu Valley nearby.
There is much new housing planned North of Churton Park towards Tawa. This suburb along with the land North of Newlands towards Horokiwi will provide the space for the future growth of Wellington.
Sports Facilities
Churton Park Tennis Club
Churton Park tennis Club with Churton Park play area and field in the background
The Tennis club is situated in a relatively sheltered valley in Lakewood Avenue.
It features 3 Rebound Ace Courts/ Lights and small clubrooms
Russell Paterson Phone: 4780206
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