Foodstuffs North Island has won approval to build New Zealand’s largest new supermarket.
A $100 million Pak’nSave of more than half a hectare is allowed at Takapuna with 197 carparking spaces near the motorway on- and off-ramps near Esmonde Rd.
Plans for the new Pak'nSave Takapuna were approved by the council on June 12. Photo / Auckland Council
An Auckland Council spokeswoman said today that consent sought onDecember 6 had been granted on June 12 for the new North Shore store.
That is larger than Foodstuff’s new 6100sq m Pak’nSave Highland Park, opened in early February, which was so popular that trolleys ran out.
The Takapuna supermarket is consented for the greenfields ex-rubbish dump reclaimed site at 6 Fred Thomas Drive, opposite The Lake House and Rosmini College.
The site at 6 Fred Thomas Drive is outlined in yellow. The new $100m Pak'nSave Takapuna is consented to be built there. Fred Thomas Drive is shown in the centre of the image. To the left is the Lake House Arts Centre. Photo / Bentley & Co application
Resource management consultants Bentley & Co sought council consent.
The site has two street frontages because it is on the corner of Des Swan Drive, which runs off Barrys Pt Rd.
Bentley described how the 9826sq m site was somewhat constrained for a store that large.
The South Island’s biggest supermarket is rising at Rolleston. Photo / George Heard
The plans are for an undercroft, which means much of the car parking will be beneath the store.
The shop will be on the first level, partly due to the flood-prone nature of the site.
Plans for the landscaping showing the ground floor or carpark of the huge new Pak'nSave Takapuna to rise at 6 Fred Thomas Drive on the North Shore. Photo / Bentley & Co applicaiton
An upper-level service yard will also be created for hundreds of deliveries to be made to the store daily.
The site was historically part of the Barrys Point Landfill, which closed in the 1970s. The site is generally flat in topography and is currently vacant, finished in grass.
Pedestrian access will be from Des Swan Drive and Fred Thomas Drive. A travellator will get people up to the supermarket level from Fred Thomas Drive below.
A bus ploughs through floodwaters on Fred Thomas Drive in the January, 2023 floods.
“To allow for the passive ventilation of the customer parking area, which is in part necessary due to the historic [sic] contamination on the site, the customer parking area will be enclosed with an aluminium mesh screen that will screen the parking from view from the street,” the application said.
New premises for Mercedes-Benz North Shore were developed at 16 Fred Thomas Drive.
Refurbished and expanded the flood-hit New World Mt Albert for $6m;
Opened the New Four Square Ōpunaki near New Plymouth in April, costing about $6m;
Opened the Four Square Waipawa in Hawke’s Bay last November, costing about $5m;
Opened the Four Square Putāruru last November, costing about $5m;
Opened the New World The Stands at Pāpāmoa on November 5;
And developed the Gilmours Hawkes Bay, which was only a delivery service. Last month, it opened as a wholesale cash-and-carry store for customers in a $12.6m upgrade.
Anne Gibson has been the Herald‘s property editor for 25 years, written books and covered property extensively here and overseas.
