PHOTO: ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Neighbouring suburb Churton Park is full of large homes and cul de sacs.
Nestled in the hills of North Wellington is a new community waiting to happen. It’s been waiting a while.
Upper Stebbings Valley and Glenside West is 260 hectares of rural land between Wellington’s Churton Park and Tawa. The land has been earmarked as a site for a new suburb since at least 2002, when council reckoned it could accommodate 800 houses.
Attempts were made again in 2009 and 2014 and now, again, in 2020.
Some housing has been built further down the valley, and some is still being built now, but demand in Wellington has long since outstripped supply.
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