Where the highway meets the business park.
As seen by 24,000 vehicles per day
$10,000 deposit secures your investment.
A new rural business park Te Aka is located at 5 Dawsons Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, on State Highway 1 and built for businesses that need real ground under them.
Te Aka Business Park offers 11 rural business sections from 6,000m² to over 11,000m² on State Highway 1 suited to yard-based rural and trade businesses.
Built for scale, not squeezed for yield.
Most commercial subdivisions chase small lots and high density. Te Aka does the opposite: large sections sized for how yard-based businesses actually work, room for stock, vehicles, storage, and growth, without fighting your neighbour for space priced below industrial land.
On the road Christchurch drives every day.
Direct frontage onto State Highway 1, at the Dawsons Road roundabout, near Rolleston on the main route in and out of Christchurch, New Zealand's fastest-growing district. Your business sits where the traffic already is.
SH1 carries approximately 24,000 vehicles a day (NZ Transport Agency), including 1,300+ an hour passing directly at the Dawsons Road roundabout during peak periods.
Who this is for:
Rural and trade businesses that need space to operate, not a lobby to impress. If your work involves large yards, machinery, storage, or vehicles, and you're tired of cramped industrial sites built for someone else's business, this business park is built for you.
Roading is excluded from the Lot sizes. All Lots except Lot 8 will be cleared from all vegetation and roading and re-grassed.
Ideal Uses
• Farm contracting businesses (cultivation, drilling, harvesting, baleage and silage contractors)
• Agricultural machinery storage, sales, servicing and repair workshops
• Irrigation installation and servicing businesses
• Grain handling, storage and drying facilities
• Seed cleaning, treatment and storage operations
• Fertiliser storage and distribution depots serving local farms
• Rural transport and stock transport yards
• Agricultural engineering and fabrication workshops, including sales to businesses and the public
• Livestock support facilities and animal health services
• Rural earthmoving and excavation contractor yards
• Hay, silage and crop storage facilities
• Silage and baleage contracting businesses
• Produce distribution and handling facilities associated with farming or horticulture
• Horticultural support businesses such as cool stores, packing sheds and produce handling facilities
• Firewood and timber processing associated with rural production activities
• Plant nurseries, landscaping materials and equipment, including sales to businesses and the public
Yard Based
• Storage of agricultural machinery
• Contractor equipment yards
• Rural transport depots
• Stockpiling of aggregate, topsoil or farm inputs
• Storage of irrigation pipes and equipment
• Fertiliser and agricultural storage compounds
• Produce and bale storage yards
• Engineering yards
The uses outlined reflect the activities currently anticipated for this precinct. Prospective purchasers wishing to consider a use outside this scope may apply for resource consent to do so. Eliot Sinclair, as planners for this site with direct knowledge of the consent history, are well placed to assist purchasers in understanding this process, for a separate fee. Please contact Liam Jagvik at Eliot Sinclair in the first instance LJJ@eliotsinclair.co.nz
5 Dawsons Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Te Aka: Project Timeline
October 2026: Sales campaign opens
Deadline sale launches with Bayleys, off-plan. Further Terms are available here.
10 November 2026: Deadline sale closes
Buyers go unconditional. $10,000 deposit due on signing.
December 2026: Resource consent lodged
Lodging with Selwyn District Council.
September 2027: Resource consent granted
Buyer deposit tops up to 10% of purchase price on RC issue.
November 2027: Construction starts
Following engineering acceptance.
December 2028: Titles issued
Balance of purchase price due on settlement.
