Over the past few decades North Shore City has grown and with this growth has come the creation of new houses, areas and communities. To reflect the changes in our city, the council felt it was necessary to look at its composition and better define the city’s suburbs. We also wanted to make it easier for the Emergency Services’ centralised call centres such as Police, Ambulance and Fire Service to locate specific addresses when calls are made for help.
Suburbs were last defined in the 1970s and since then the city has experienced the amalgamation of the former local authorities in 1989, urban development, and emerging and changing communities. As a result a number of locality names have been adopted by the communities living in the city.
We worked closely with Community Board members to ensure that the views of their local communities were taken into consideration. We also consulted with a number of key organisations (including Iwi, the Real Estate Institute and Emergency Services) to define suburbs based on the communities that had already established in the city.
Under the New Zealand Geographic Board Act of 1946, local councils are required to clearly define and name all suburbs. Many of the suburbs already existed but needed to be better defined as did a few new suburbs that had established. Following public consultation, the suburbs were approved by the council and the New Zealand Geographic Board, the government agency responsible for approving place names including suburbs.
North Shore City now has 44 suburbs. These became official upon publication in the New Zealand Gazette, the New Zealand government’s official newspaper.
If you would like to check which suburb you are in, please use the suburb search above.
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