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Finally we are nearing completion of Kakapo Creek! By the end of July the main building will be finished and we will be completing the playground and the car park and a little bit more planting – to ensure that it really is a ‘children’s garden’. What happens next? Once we have completed construction we […]

Well, we are certainly moving forward and not backwards. However, progress is still much slower than we had all hoped for. A meeting with our construction company in October, 2020, planned to be painting the inside before Christmas. Today we still don’t have ply on the walls to plaster, let alone paint! I remain optimistic […]

After Covid and material construction delays we are back on track and due to open April 2021. Underneath the big white canopy is lots of activity – the electrical and plumbing work has begun and the ceiling / roof and wall frames continue to go up. We’re grateful to our builders, Meridian Construction and our […]

UPDATE: To Our Kakapo Creek Friends and Followers: Anyone driving past our construction site will see that we are well behind on our construction timeline. There have been numerous circumstances that have caused these delays. Despite our best intentions and efforts it seems unlikely that we will open before April 2021. We are in the […]

Finally we have council consent to continue our construction. It’s been a very long delay. We apologise to prospective parents and staff for this, it was out of our control. Building next to a creek has it’s advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are that it’s a beautiful outlook for our children – eels, ducks, whitebait all […]