Normandale | |
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 View toward Wellington from the top of Normandale Road | |
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| Coordinates: 41°12′09″S 174°53′32″E / 41.20250°S 174.89222°E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Wellington Region |
| City | Lower Hutt City |
| Local authority | Hutt City Council |
| Electoral ward | Western |
| Established | 1901 |
| Area | |
| • Land | 145 ha (358 acres) |
| Population (June 2024)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,150 |
| Belmont Regional Park | Tirohanga | |
| Maungaraki |
  Normandale  |
Harbour View |
| Alicetown | Melling |
Normandale is a semi-rural suburb of Lower Hutt City, New Zealand, on the western hills of the Hutt Valley. It consists of two main roads – Normandale Road and Miromiro Road – and the hills between, and is a five minute drive from the Lower Hutt city centre.[2]
Normandale contains historic woodland reserve Jubilee Park and part of Belmont Regional Park, Wellington's largest Regional Park. It also has many other smaller sections of native bush reserve, so native birds are very common; since 2019 Kiwibank has funded the suburb to suppress bird-killing predators as part of New Zealand's Predator Free project.[3] Normandale is home to a primary school,[4] a Playcentre,[5] a church,[6] a cattery,[7] and a dog boarding kennel,[8] and is otherwise entirely residential. As an older suburb made up entirely of narrow and steep hills, it is dominated by trees.[9]
- ^ "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ "Families flock to handy Normandale". The Dominion Post. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Ten more Kiwibank Predator Free Communities announced". Predator Free New Zealand. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Normandale School". Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Normandale Playcentre". Playcentre. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "St Aidan's on the Hill Normandale/Maungaraki". Hutt City Uniting Congregations. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Hillcrest Cat Motel". Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Waglands Dogs' Holiday Retreat". 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Normandale Residents Association". Retrieved 20 July 2019.