Profiles

Churton Park

Churton Park, Wellington

(Northern Suburbs)

Churton Park is a suburb located in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Churton Park is a new, wealthy and upper-middle class suburb located in the Northern Suburbs district of Wellington, 1.5 km north of Johnsonville.

The suburb includes over 1500 households, 'Churton Park' (a recreational sports field), a primary school and a gold mine.

 Schools

Churton Park School is the suburb's only primary school. It 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. In 2006, to help manage roll growth, the School Board proposed an amendment to the existing zoning policy/area. This was heatedly debated in the community as the proposal would have removed several long-standing Churton Park streets from the Zone. The associated community concern and feedback resulted in the announcement by the Ministry of Education in 2007 that a new (larger) school site would be developed in the local area^. Currently, negotiations between the Ministry and the local developer over a suitable site are still ongoing.

There are no intermediate schools or colleges within the area itself, so many students attend Raroa Normal Intermediate, Newlands Intermediate Onslow College and Newlands College; all within the local Johnsonville and Newlands area. There is a school bus that caters for these Schools that runs through Churton Park. For further information on schools in the area click on Info Centre and go to Quality Education and Schools on this website.

 Geography

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.

Semi Panoramic image from the surrounding hills of Churton Park

References

 "New School for Churton Park".

Churton Park Community Website  (Click here to be taken to the Churton Park Community Website)