Notice of intention to take land – Kumeū Secondary School Project - 60 Station Rd, Kumeū

Notice is hereby given that The Minister for Land Information, under the provisions of section 23 of the Public Works Act 1981, proposes to take the land described in the Schedule to this notice (“Land”).

The Land is required for construction of the Kumeū Secondary School Project. It is intended to use the Land for Education Purposes.

Reasons for Taking the Land

A summary of the reasons why the Minister for Land Information is of the opinion that the Land is required to be taken is as follows:

• The Minister’s objectives for the Project are to deliver a new secondary school meet existing and future secondary school demand in the Kumeū, Huapai, Riverhead, Waimauku, Muriwai and Taupaki areas.
• Adequate consideration has been given to alternative sites, routes or other methods of achieving the Minister’s objectives. A comprehensive process was followed to confirm the preferred site from a broad search area for a new school. The site chosen was considered most suitable for various reasons, including providing sufficient land area, good transport connections, available infrastructure and unique opportunities for integration with Huapai District School that are not available to the same degree at competing sites.
• The acquisition is fair as good faith negotiations have been ongoing since October 2025.
• The acquisition is sound as the requiring authority has carried out appropriate decision making. The requiring authority has also lodged a Notice of Requirement for the Project and affected owners and the wider community have been consulted as part of that process.
• It is reasonably necessary to take the Land as the requiring authority needs all of the Land for construction of the new school in order to best achieve the Minister’s objectives for the Project.

Right to Object

The owners of the Land and those persons with a registered interest in the Land have been served with notice of the Minister for Land Information’s intention to take the Land and advised of their right to object.

Any other person having the right to object may send a written objection to the Registrar, Environment Court, Specialist Courts and Tribunals Centre, Level 2, 41 Federal Street, Auckland 1010. Postal Address: CX10086, Auckland or PO Box 7147, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1010, within 20 working days after the date of publication of this notice.

If any person makes an objection, a public hearing of the objection will be held unless the objector gives written notice to the Environment Court that they want the hearing to be held in private.

Any person who makes an objection will be advised of the time and place of the hearing and will have the right to appear and be heard personally or to be represented by a barrister and solicitor or any other person the objector authorises.

Any person requiring further information in respect of this notice should contact David Everiss, The Property Group Limited. Postal Address: PO Box 104, Shortland Street, Auckland 1140. Email: deveriss@propertygroup.co.nz. Phone: 027 496 9360 or (09) 309 8526.

The Land is located at 60 Station Road, Kumeū.

North Auckland Land District—Auckland

Schedule

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of November 2026.

Hon MIKE BUTTERICK, Minister for Land Information.

(LINZ CPC/2025/716496)