Paperwork in the form of consents is the only hold-up for a team of workers ready to start building a new St John Ambulance station in Mangawhai.
St John Northern Region district operations manager Tony Devanney said a team of enthusiastic workers were on standby to start the construction phase but paperwork was still being worked through by the Kaipara District Council.
Mr Devanney said St John had been working tirelessly for the past four years with the Kaipara District Council and Mangawhai community groups to ensure the station was what the community wanted.
Now it was a matter of meeting some conditions before the consent was granted.
Currently there is no ambulance station and staff have been sharing a facility with the volunteer firefighters. However, that building had been condemned and a new site for the ambulance station has been found.