Normandale, New Zealand

Normandale
View toward Wellington from the top of Normandale Road
View toward Wellington from the top of Normandale Road
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Coordinates: 41°12′09″S 174°53′32″E / 41.20250°S 174.89222°E / -41.20250; 174.89222
CountryNew Zealand
RegionWellington Region
CityLower Hutt City
Local authorityHutt City Council
Electoral wardWestern
Established1901
Area
 • Land145 ha (358 acres)
Population
 (June 2023)[1]
 • Total2,160
Belmont Regional Park Tirohanga
Maungaraki
Normandale
Harbour View
Alicetown Melling

Normandale is a semi-rural suburb of Lower Hutt City, New Zealand, on the western hills of the Hutt Valley. It consists of two main roads – Normandale Road and Miromiro Road – and the hills between, and is a five minute drive from the Lower Hutt city centre.[2]

Normandale contains historic woodland reserve Jubilee Park and part of Belmont Regional Park, Wellington's largest Regional Park. It also has many other smaller sections of native bush reserve, so native birds are very common; since 2019 Kiwibank has funded the suburb to suppress bird-killing predators as part of New Zealand's Predator Free project.[3] Normandale is home to a primary school,[4] a Playcentre,[5] a church,[6] a cattery,[7] and a dog boarding kennel,[8] and is otherwise entirely residential. As an older suburb made up entirely of narrow and steep hills, it is dominated by trees.[9]

  1. ^ "Population estimate tables - NZ.Stat". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Families flock to handy Normandale". The Dominion Post. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Ten more Kiwibank Predator Free Communities announced". Predator Free New Zealand. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Normandale School". Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Normandale Playcentre". Playcentre. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  6. ^ "St Aidan's on the Hill Normandale/Maungaraki". Hutt City Uniting Congregations. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Hillcrest Cat Motel". Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Waglands Dogs' Holiday Retreat". 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Normandale Residents Association". Retrieved 20 July 2019.

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