This project will
Provide essential strategic wastewater connections from central and southern Peacocke.
Connect to the new wastewater transfer station in Peacocke.
Support safer, active and better-connected communities.
Te kaunihera o Kirikiriroa
The 1.5km “Bikes on pipes” shared pathway will provide users travelling from central Peacocke with a more direct route into the central city. The wastewater pipeline will connect neighbourhoods in Peacocke to the new wastewater transfer station.
Suburb Peacocke
Status Underway
Programme Peacocke
Council has contracted CB Civil to build a shared pathway and wastewater pipeline in Peacocke. Key features of this project are two 110,000kg “Bikes on pipes” bridges across gullies which were lifted into place in March 2024.
As we build our new community in Peacocke we need to make sure we put the right infrastructure in place at the right time, like pipes for our wastewater. This project started with a wastewater focus, but Council saw and took the opportunity to create a better-connected community by approving investment to upgrade the bridges so they can carry people, not just pipes, and build the shared pathways.
2022
Planning completed.2023
Construction started on the 860m-long underground pipeline, including storage facilities. The two gully bridges were lifted into place in March 2024.2025
The pipeline and shared pathway will be completed in 2025. The pathway will connect to surrounding roads when Whatukooruru Drive is completed in 2026.The project was made possible with support from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund, made up of a $180.3 million 10-year interest-free loan, and Council funding.
Asphalt has a lower carbon footprint than concrete and better suits this project’s life cycle.
The shared pathway runs on the east side of the north-south arterial road which is likely to be more than a decade away. The interim south end of the pathway will be replaced by paths on the north-south arterial road and residential streets when development takes place.
The area east of the path has been restored as a wildlife corridor and includes “lizard hotels” as habitat for the native copper skink.
The ponds allow infiltration to reduce impacts on groundwater and are designed to manage and treat stormwater for the transport corridor and expected residential development.
Last updated 23 January 2025