Churton Park is a new, wealthy and upper-middle class suburb located in the Northern Suburbs district of Wellington, 1.5 km north of Johnsonville. It is popular as an executive commuter suburb but currently has no shops and relies on Johnsonville for shopping amenities. It as a fast growing suburb and has been very popular with new immigrants to Wellington who want newer value housing.

It is a family-oriented suburb with spacious executive houses, lots of little parks, and walkways between cul-de-sacs (wonderful for interesting constitutionals, or simply walking the dog). It’s also one of Wellington’s most culturally diverse areas, with people from China, India and South Africa; on a summer’s evening the cooking smells can be tantalizing – garlic, lemon grass, spices, and the traditional Kiwi BBQ.

Churton Park is the main area of new housing in north Wellington, with more than 70 building consents issued in 2006 and around 1,300 new houses proposed for Stebbings Valley. It’s hoped work on a shopping centre development will begin next year. The local primary school is decile 10.

Churton Park School is the suburb's only primary school. It has a very credible reputation both within and outside the community. As the suburb's only school, good reputation and growing population, the school's roll has rapidly increased over the years. To accommodate these increases, there have been many renovations to the school's buildings within the last 10 years. A new site for a larger school has been proposed.

There are no intermediate schools or colleges within the area, so many students attend Raroa Normal Intermediate, Newlands Intermediate, Onslow College and Newlands College; all within the local Johnsonville and Newlands area.

The geography of the land is quite hilly and has dense bush in some areas that have not been excavated for housing sub-divisions. Steep hills eventually extend over to the Ohariu Valley nearby.

There is much new housing planned North of Churton Park towards Tawa. This suburb along with the land North of Newlands towards Horokiwi will provide the space for the future growth of Wellington.

Info supplied by David Garratt of Guardian First National Ltd.

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