Billion-dollar Sleepyhead project given official go-ahead stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Waikato Regional Council was challenging the proposed billion-dollar north Waikato development, but got the best outcome possible through talks with Sleepyhead, the chairman says.
The proposed $1.2 billion Sleepyhead Estate housing and manufacturing development at Ohinewai looks set to become a reality soon with appellants to the Env
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Monday, 24 May 2021, 12:00 pm
Independent commissioners have
given the green light for the company behind well-known Kiwi
brand Sleepyhead to develop a $1 billion manufacturing and
housing community on its 178-hectare rural site in Ohinewai,
north Waikato.
The proposed development by Comfort
Group, and its property arm Ambury Properties Ltd, will
include industrial, commercial, and residential zones. It
intends on developing a master planned mixed-use community
over the next 10 years with 1100 homes for up to 3,000
residents, and a new factory creating up to 2600 new
jobs.
The decision on the company’s rezoning
submission on the Proposed Waikato District Plan has been
under deliberation since hearings in September last year,