The  Drury South Crossing site is located in the Drury basin in South Auckland, east of the southern motorway (SH1), between the Drury interchange to the north and the Ramarama interchange to the south. The Drury Quarry, which is located at the base of the Hunua foothills, forms the eastern edge of the  Drury South Crossing site.

Design balance

The  Drury South Crossing concept design seeks to work with the existing topography and structure of the basin to provide a series of landscape elements that mediate the project’s relationship with the surrounding landscape. All edges to the project will be planted with large scale trees, including the Hingaia and Maketu Stream corridors which extend through the project area. Industry will be graduated through the project. Lower impact activities will be located around the edges with more intensive uses being located adjacent to the Drury Quarry.

Additional landscape provisions are proposed for the land between the SH1 and Hingaia Stream corridors. This will facilitate a more business park form of development adjacent to the motorway, reinforcing the existing and proposed corridor planting. More than 95Ha will be developed into public open space. A network of walkways and cycle paths will provide public access to the wetlands and open spaces. The riparian enhancement is designed to achieve ecological, recreational and cultural benefits, and to reflect traditional pathways through the basin.

The  Drury South Crossing site is well located for access to essential infrastructure. The Drury basin is transversed by three quarry trucking routes and four high voltage power corridors. It is also traversed by a high-pressure gas main and Telecom’s main fibre optic cable to the south. The Waikato water pipeline and the North Island main trunk rail corridor run close to the site’s northern boundary.