A vision and plan for the future.
Hawera is a town of 11,000 people in South Taranaki, second only to New Plymouth in size.
Hawera’s Town Centre was not meeting the needs of the community including businesses and residents. The town form is a long main street sitting off to the side of SH3, and many of the buildings were created in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Much of the area that is still seen as the Town Centre, with its focus around High Street, was laid out and developed over 100 years ago. There are heritage values that can be attributable to this area, but the community’s social, economic, cultural and environmental issues and expectations, have changed considerably since that time.