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When the America’s Cup World Series kicks off this month, all of the competing boats sailing will have been built in Warkworth.Warkworth-based company Core Builders Composites (CBC) built all of the AC45 Class 45-foot catamarans in collaboration with the NZ marine industry. Six teams are competing in the series, including Team New Zealand. All of the teams race identical yachts, putting the emphasis on sailing skill rather than technical innovation.The World Series races are the preliminary rounds for the America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017, when teams will race 50-foot wing-sailed catamarans – the AC50s. The first World Series event kicks off in Portsmouth in England on July 23, with at least 10 events scheduled over the next two years.Core Builders development manager Susan Lake says it’s a busy time.“We are keeping our fingers crossed nothing breaks. We don’t have much time for repairs or to produce spares right now.”The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Oracle Team USA. It started creating the molds for the next America’s Cup yacht in January, but in May the Cup

Core Builders employees work on a mast for an America’s Cup yacht, adding a thin resin coating by hand to create a strengthened core for the carbon fibre mold. The company is producing the mast and wing-sail for three America’s Cup teams. The room pictured is actually a giant oven, where the mast will be baked at about 85 degrees to cure it.

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rules changed the size of the yachts from 62-foot to 50-foot and the company had to start again from scratch.“We had already completed the

tooling for parts of the wing-sail,” Ms Lake says. “We’ve worked really hard and now we are almost back to where we were in March.

“All of the teams agreed on the 50-foot size to reduce the cost to encourage more competitors.”Almost the entire Oracle Team USA boat will be produced in Warkworth. The regulations require a small portion of the hull to be built in the team’s country of origin.Core Builders can also produce parts and molding for the AC50s for other Cup competitors as new regulations have standardised many components of the boats. This includes the wing-sail, hulls and cross-structures between the two hulls.So far they have gained contracts to produce the wing-sails for the Swedish team (Artemis), and Team Japan and are in discussion with other teams.The main areas teams will be competing on will be the design of the foils, which allow the yachts to rise out of the ocean and hydroplane, and the control systems for the foils and wing-sails. The rudders and steering systems are also not standardised.CBC plans to start shipping the AC50 wing-sails before the end of this year and expects to ship the components to Bermuda in October 2016 for launch in January 2017.

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Construction of the long awaited Mansel Drive bridge is scheduled to start next year.The $3.2 million project will link Hudson Road and Hill Street to Woodcocks Road, providing an alternative route through the west of Warkworth. Currently traffic travelling between Hudson Road and Woodcocks Road has to detour through a fjord on Falls Road, which cannot be used by heavy traffic.Construction is scheduled to start in August next year, to be completed in June 2017.Auckland Transport (AT) is currently reviewing the final design and tender documentation.Under the 2006 memorandum of understanding between the former Rodney District Council and NZ Transit (now NZTA) the bridge was to be completed by 2012.However the project has been repeatedly delayed following the creation of the Super City.AT media spokesperson Mark Hannan says the project was developed to the detail design phase a couple of years ago but AT could not build the bridge due to lack of funding.Local Board member Steven Garner says the completion of the bridge will have a huge impact on the development of Warkworth.“I believe the delays to this project is one of the drivers for the scatter gun development of the town. With the Mansel Drive bridge in place a more orderly and structured development of industry and commerce along

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that corridor would be encouraged. I believe that this would be hugely beneficial for Warkworth in the longer term.”The bridge is the first step in the Western Collector project, which creates a bypass of Warkworth by extending Glenmore Drive and Morrison Drive through to State High

Way One, near the intersection of McKinney Road.The route creates an alternative for traffic heading to the industrial estate, avoiding the traffic lights at the Woodcocks Road intersection and diverting heavy traffic away from Mahurangi College.

Under the memorandum, the full Western Collector route was meant to be finished in June this year, as well as significant improvements to the Hill Street intersection.However AT has not allocated any funding to build the roads in the next decade.

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In an attempt to ease tensions surrounding the establishment of a business improvement district (BID) in Warkworth, the BID’s project manager has stepped down.Murray Hill was meant to manage the campaign to establish the BID for the next year, however Warkworth Area Business Association has now decided it will manage the project. Business Association member Nicola Jones says the fact that Mr Hill was from Auckland made many people believe the project was being driven by Auckland Council. This was fuelling negative misperceptions about the BID, she says.“It just wasn’t working having someone who wasn’t a local. It was quite a barrier, especially for people in the industrial area. A lot of people have an anti-council feeling and people associated Murray as being a part of that [Council].”Business Association co-chair Dean Sampson says the work Mr Hill completed to date is still valuable for the BID campaign. Mr Hill completed a comprehensive database of business owners and landlords and a draft strategic plan outlining some of the benefits stakeholders would like to see from a BID.The committee will now look to appoint a local representative who will develop an information pack for business and land owners before they vote on whether to form a BID in Warkworth. “It is important that we have local knowledge to inform this strategy as

our needs and those of our members are unique, as is the blend between industrial and retail zones.”The move comes after a fiery public meeting in April, where many business owners said there had been a lack of consultation and were concerned about the costs of a BID.Ms Jones says the association will spend the next six to eight weeks consulting with businesses before developing budgets and boundaries for the BID. It will then hold another public meeting next month.“If the feedback we get is negative everywhere, then it won’t be worth spending the time creating detailed budgets, but the more we get out and talk to people the better it feels.“There’s a lot of misperception. Once we explain what it’s about people start to come around to the idea.”A major source of contention is how the BID would be funded. There are three ways a BID can be funded – a targeted rate on a percentage of a property’s capital value, a flat fee for all properties, or a mixture of the two systems. Businesses in the industrial area fear a rate based on property values will cost them tens of thousands of dollars, due to the size of some of the large factories.However Nicola says the association has ruled out implementing a flat rate, as it wouldn’t raise enough money to make the BID viable.The boundaries of the BID are also yet to be decided and could exclude the industrial area.

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The $33.5 million walking and cycleway across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, which was given resource consent this month, will be designed, built and managed in Warkworth.Independent planning commissioners approved the resource consent for the SkyPath on July 3. The application received 11,586 submissions with 11,413 in support, five neutral and 168 in opposition. The project is still not over the finish line yet, with an appeal period until July 24.If it is not appealed, the detailed design work will start straight away and construction will start by the beginning of next year, with completion due by the end of 2016.The SkyPath is being led by Pt Wells project director Bevan Woodward.Leigh resident Garth Falconer of Reset Urban Design is leading the design team and Warkworth firm Core Builders Composites are proposed to manage the construction.Bevan says he is excited about it becoming a reality, but after working on it for 11 years he is used to waiting.

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He says he wasn’t the first to think of a walking and cycleway across the bridge, but he didn’t give up when he was told it couldn’t be done. He had spent years himself cycling through Auckland and driving over the Harbour Bridge and is a sustainable transport advocate.“It ticks a lot of boxes. Health, tourism, reducing carbon emissions and making a more liveable city.”Conceived as a community initiative, it will be funded by Morrison and Co Public Infrastructure Partnership Fund and the delivery partner Downer Construction. They will recover costs from an entrance fee on the SkyPath, proposed at $2 to $3 each way with a hop card.Auckland Council has been asked to underwrite the business to 75 per cent of the business case. If revenue falls below 75 per cent, Council will top up the fund. After 20 years the path will be gifted to Council. Mayor Len Brown says the next step will be a Council report on the

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associated with parties who chose to drive to SkyPath will be adequately mitigated through provision, implementation, and review and monitoring of the operational plan,” the decision reads.Core Builders Composites, who also build Oracle’s America’s Cup boats, will use leading marine technology composite material for the SkyPath. The material is light and strong in the form of a series of U beams that clip onto the underside of the eastern edge of the bridge with a composite foam core deck. Horizontal composite rods are spaced out across the enclosure to allow viewing and maintaining safety.Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway Trust is a not-for-profit community organisation whose objectives are to construct SkyPath then use any future income to support other walking and cycling projects. The three Trustees Bevan Woodward, Christine Rose and Andy Smith have developed the SkyPath project since 2009.

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Warkworth Wellsford Hospice is launching a community fundraising campaign to raise the last million it needs for a purpose-built day care facility in Glenmore Drive.As the population grows, so does the demand for palliative care. The new $4 million building is designed to meet the community’s needs well into the future.General manager Kathryn Ashworth says more than 90 ‘incredibly generous’ families, individuals and groups have already given or pledged nearly $3 million.The building is due to be completed by December 2016. The consent has been granted, and the hospice is in the process of getting building consent and appointing a contractor, with construction due to start before the end of this year.The weekly garage sale, together with the hospice shops in Warkworth and Wellsford, is a key fundraiser for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice, which needs to raise about $700,000 a year to top up its health board funding.Mrs Ashworth says the money raised in the community enables the hospice to offer all its support services free of charge to patients and families living with a progressive, life-threatening illness.

“Our fundraising also pays for extra services such as counselling, complimentary therapies and having a palliative care nurse on call 24/7, which means families can call us any time, day or night, if they are worried about something.”The fundraising campaign for the last million is being launched with a fashion show in the Mahurangi East Community Centre on Saturday, August 1 from 7pm. Guests will be treated to live music, top-notch wines and finger-food created by the stars of hospice’s catering team, and fabulous fashions from Katya Maker Boutique.In the spirit of the campaign, Katya will donate half of all clothing sales on the night to the project. Katya has also arranged some bonus entertainment from Segway New Zealand, who will have two Segway personal transporters for guests to try at the event. One guest will win a Segway Challenge to liven up their next party or corporate event.Tickets to the fashion show are $30 and are available from Katya Maker Boutique in Elizabeth Street, Warkworth, and Hospice House on the corner of Woodcocks Road and Morrison Drive. Info: Phone 425 9535 or visit warkworthwellsfordhospice.co.nz

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Before the sun comes up on Wednesday morning, three garages-full of ceiling-high furniture will be unstacked, lugged outside and rearranged for sale in the back yard of Hospice House in Warkworth.By 7am, customers are happily weaving between sofas, dining tables, chairs, dressers, cots, bikes, bunks and countless other items given away by their previous owners and waiting for a second round via the Hospice garage sale.Dealers and regulars know to come early on Wednesdays but the bargains at the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice garage sale never seem to run out, says sale manager John McEwing.“It looks chaotic but that might be part of the charm – shift a pile of blankets or a stack of garden pots and who knows what treasure you might find?”However, there is little charm for volunteers in shifting furniture out of the sheds early in the morning and then moving the unsold pieces back inside at lunchtime. If it rains they also have to quickly cover up the furniture with large tarpaulins.“It is frustrating, too, having to turn good donations away because we’ve run out of room to store them,” says Mr McEwing.

Staff and volunteers are looking forward to the end of 2016 when they expect to move the garage sale operation onto a new site, as part of a new hospice facility to be built in Morrison and Glenmore Drives.In planning the new garage sale site, staff have visited recycling centres and worked with Auckland Council to identify opportunities for diverting waste from landfill. The Council provided some funding for a feasibility study and for an adapted shipping container that is already in use for extra furniture storage.In addition to having furniture stored and displayed mostly indoors, the future Hospice Garage Sale will have space for a range of new activities. Possibilities include an artists’ store, a yard for recycled timber and other building materials for DIY enthusiasts, and creative workshops to add value to donated goods and for community participation.Warkworth Wellsford Hospice general manager Kathryn Ashworth says as well as increasing revenue to support the hospice’s core service, there is also potential for workshops to be held for patients as a form of therapy and support.

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The development of Glenmore Drive Reserve in Warkworth’s industrial area is up in the air after the land was identified as a possible site for a Warkworth swimming pool.Warkworth Area Business Association member Nicola Jones wants to see the 1.8-hectare green-space developed into an area for the community.“I’ve got a long list of things we could be doing there.”Options suggested include a bike park, outdoor gym and picnic space.But Ms Jones says the project has been put on the back burner due to uncertainty of the future of the reserve.“I’m pro the pool and don’t want to stop it going ahead, I just don’t want to spend time working to develop the park if it will eventually be bulldozed for a pool. We just need to know.”Rodney Local Board member Beth Houlbrooke says she hopes a site will be confirmed within the next year.Five potential sites have been identified for the swimming pool. A feasibility study is underway to look at the sites in greater detail.

“When the report is released next month the public will have a better idea of the potential sites. It could be all five sites are still on the table, or it could just be three.”The Board has also allocated funding to completing a business case for the pool within the next year. It will develop a basic design, cost and management structure for the pool and hopefully finalise a site.“A swimming pool will be several years away and the Board is open to proposals for uses for Glenmore Drive Reserve.“If there are other uses identified for the reserve then that would impact on whether it is considered as a potential site for a swimming pool.”Council media spokesperson Joanna Glasswell says the land was gifted to Council when the area was being developed into a commercial area. It had been grazed up until 18 months ago, when Council completed landscaping, removed rubbish from the site and planted grass.

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Demand for real estate in Warkworth’s industrial areas is picking up.Tom and Robyn Morrison are the landowners behind the development of Morrison Drive and Gumfield Drive. Robyn says inquiries all but stopped following the global financial crisis, but interest in un-developed sections in the area has increased over the past six months.The couple developed five sections on Gumfield Drive about five years ago, but due to the low level of inquiries they haven’t connected the sites to utilities, however they are now looking to prepare the sites for sale this summer.The couple have a further two hectares remaining to be developed, which require landscaping to make them level.The inquiries have come from a mix of local businesses looking to relocate, and national firms who are looking to establish a presence in Warkworth.Industrial building specialists

Coresteel North Harbour director Andrew Boyd says he has also noticed an increase in demand. However he says many companies are finding land in Warkworth expensive to build on, as there are few flat sites and development contributions are high.“We are seeing demand from national chains who want to be established for the residential growth planned for the area, and also local businesses.”He says developers have been content to hold on to land and wait to get the price they want, which has slowed growth in the industrial sector.Stockyard Falls landowner and developer Neil Barr says he has no plans to develop the site any further in the near future.Mr Barr had grand plans for the land, which now includes Mitre 10 Mega. However he put the 5.88 hectares on the market in 2011 after NZTA vetoed a proposed shopping centre at the site, due to concerns it would increase congestion in Warkworth.

Industrial land in demandEnquiries for vacant land in Warkworth’s industrial area plummeted following the global financial crisis, but have picked up in the last six months.


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Volunteers in short supply

Welcome to a new monthly column, which will keep readers up-to-date with the activities of fire stations in the Mahurangi district, north to Mangawhai and Maungaturoto. The volunteer brigades are a critical part of our emergency response service, but are in desperate need of more recruits. If you would like to know more, visit fire.org.nz.

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Big changes are afoot at Matakana Fire Station, but will they be enough to save the station from closure? That’s the problem facing the local fire crew and the NZ Fire Service (NZFS), which recently took over responsibility of the Matakana brigade. Matakana, Waitakere and Muriwai stations are the first rural fire services involved in a restructure that could roll-out across NZ. We are the ‘guinea pigs’ and while the changes will appear minor to the public in terms of our day-to-day operations, the critical bottom line is that we must attract more volunteers from our community to ensure our survival. The change for Matakana began in November. The lead appliance and volunteers will now carry the NZFS logo and their management will be based in Takapuna. The Matakana Rural Fire Service Trust, which established the brigade 10 years ago, will remain in place and for the volunteer crews, it will be business as usual. But Matakana, like so many other rural fire services, is critically short of volunteers. Some stations in Rodney have been unable to respond to urgent calls because of insufficient crews. The added problem for Matakana is the average age of its 20-plus crew is about 50, and many will want to stand down when they can no longer be sure of meeting the demands of handling breathing apparatus under challenging circumstances. I’ve had 43 years as a fire fighter but at nearly 70, I would prefer to see younger fire fighters answering the calls. We simply don’t have enough able bodies available to respond to the call-outs, especially during the day.If we cannot improve the crew numbers and lower the average age, the station will eventually have to close – it’s that simple. This drastic step is still a number of years away and by that time, the NZFS may have come up with some radical solutions. In the meantime, locals – male and female – are urged to come forward to help either as trained volunteers or operational support, helping behind the scenes with administration, education or traffic management.Info: fire.org.nz or phone Mr Clarke at 422 9363.

Mahurangi Matters, Warkworth Industrial Estate Feature, 15 July, 2015

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