Norwood Drive
Flat Bush, Auckland
- 29 terraced homes
- 3 & 4 bedroom configurations
Norwood Drive is a community of twenty-nine terraced homes in Flat Bush, one of Auckland’s fastest-growing suburbs. Each home was built in a three or four-bedroom configuration — genuine family homes rather than compact stock — designed to suit households who wanted room to settle in an area that was, and still is, on the way up.
The location does a lot of the work. Norwood Drive sits minutes from motorway access running to both the Auckland CBD and the airport, with the established Botany Town Centre and Manukau nearby for everyday shopping. Closest of all is the ninety-four-hectare Sir Barry Curtis Park — one of the largest parks in the city — giving residents a vast stretch of green space on their doorstep. For a family weighing up where to put down roots, that combination of connectivity and open space is exactly the brief.
Norwood Drive was completed in 2013 and sold out — comfortable, well-located homes that did precisely what they set out to do.
Family homes for a suburb on the way up
Norwood Drive was built when Flat Bush was still proving itself, and the brief reflected a conviction about where the suburb was heading: twenty-nine genuine family homes, in three and four-bedroom configurations, rather than the compact investor stock that dominated new supply at the time.
Building for families in an emerging suburb means backing the location before the market has finished deciding. The ninety-four-hectare Sir Barry Curtis Park on the doorstep, the motorway connections and the Botany town centre made that an easier conviction to hold than it looked from outside.
The Flat Bush partnership, first time around
The development was delivered by the Heartland and Sanctuary Group partnership, designed by Paul Brown Architects, engineered by Candor3 and built by Capri Construction. If those names sound familiar, they should: the same delivery relationships carried straight into The Reserve, the larger of our two Flat Bush projects, and Paul Brown’s firm appears again years later at Western Park in Ponsonby.
Norwood Drive is where much of that network proved itself. Repeat partners are the quiet asset of a boutique developer, and this is the project where several of ours started.
Twenty-nine of ninety-four
Norwood Drive sold out on completion in 2013. Together with The Reserve it forms the ninety-four terraced homes Heartland delivered across two Flat Bush developments, and the suburb has spent the years since catching up to the bet both projects made on it.
For a buyer weighing up Heartland today, the value of a project like this is its ordinariness: well-located family homes, delivered without drama, that did precisely what they set out to do and have housed people ever since.
Where is Norwood Drive?
In Flat Bush, Auckland, minutes from Sir Barry Curtis Park, the Botany town centre and motorway access to the CBD and airport. Norwood Drive is the street itself; the Heartland development comprises 29 of the terraced homes on it.
Who designed and built the Norwood Drive development?
It was developed by Heartland in partnership with Sanctuary Group, designed by Paul Brown Architects, engineered by Candor3 and built by Capri Construction. It was completed in 2013.
Are any Norwood Drive homes for sale?
The development sold out at completion. Individual homes resell through local agents from time to time.
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