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Normandale is a semi-rural suburb of
Lower Hutt City Lower Hutt () is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. It is New Zealand's sixth most populous city, with a popula ...
, New Zealand, on the western hills of the
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. 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. 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
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has funded the suburb to suppress bird-killing predators as part of New Zealand's Predator Free project. Normandale is home to a primary school, a Playcentre, a church, a
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, and a dog boarding kennel, and is otherwise entirely residential. As an older suburb made up entirely of narrow and steep hills, it is dominated by trees.


Geography

Normandale is defined by the area bordered by its two main roads: Normandale Road, starting with the bridge from
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over State Highway 2 / Western Hutt Road and the Melling railway line; and Miromiro Road, which branches off after the bridge. Normandale Road is almost 4.5 kilometres long, whose top few kilometres, at around 200m altitude, serves small farms and
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s. It connects north to Sweetacres Drive, Belmont. From the top of Miromiro Road, Dowse Drive connects upward to Normandale's pair suburb
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, with Poto Road connecting back down to Normandale Road in the opposite direction. The other connecting roads meet Normandale Road: Pokohiwi Road to Pekanga Road in the middle, and Cottle Park Drive and Stratton Street at the upper end bordering Belmont Regional Park.


Jubilee Park

Jubilee Park opened in 1940 to commemorate Wellington's centenary (and the 50th anniversary of Lower Hutt a year later). Mostly consisting of native bush (and the birds who live there), it also includes sites of houses built in the 1890s, a replica pioneer hut with the original chimney, heritage plantings, picnic areas, bush walks, three lawns, and a roadside
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station. Jubilee Park contains Hutt Minoh Friendship House, a
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category 1 building. Originally named Norbury, it was built in 1904 by Lower Hutt's first mayor
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, to house his daughter Alice and her husband George William von Zedlitz,
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's first professor of
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s. It was acquired by the City Council in 1945 to house the park caretaker. Today it is used to promote Japanese culture and Lower Hutt's link with its
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, whose mayor funded its restoration. It includes New Zealand's first
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dojo.


History


Old Coach Road

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used two major routes between
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and
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. One of these, called the Old Coach Road by the European settlers, ran from the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour south over the hills, exiting through what is now Normandale, into the
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. It was a proposed road connection between the two harbours in the 1850s, and was used by coaches until the mid 1880s when it was abandoned in preference to the Haywards Hill Road. Today Old Coach Road is part of the track system in Belmont Regional Park, and the section between the sealed Stratton Street end and Belmont Road junction is a Heritage New Zealand category 2 area.


Founding and development of the suburb

Normandale was founded in 1901 under the village settlement scheme of the
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, New Zealand's first political party government, along with its westerly neighbours
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and Korokoro. It was named after Ann Normandale, mother-in-law of
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. It was initially part of Hutt County, and became a part of Lower Hutt City on 6 October 1957. Substantial development took place during the 1960s and 1970s. The population was stable between 1996 and 2013, with few new dwellings and a decline in the average number of residents per dwelling.


Demographics

Normandale statistical area covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Normandale had a population of 2,010 at the
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, an increase of 72 people (3.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 69 people (3.6%) since the 2006 census. There were 723 households, comprising 1,002 males and 1,011 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female. The median age was 38.7 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 417 people (20.7%) aged under 15 years, 315 (15.7%) aged 15 to 29, 1,065 (53.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 213 (10.6%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 87.2% European/
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, 7.2%
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, 3.1% Pasifika, 11.0% Asian, and 2.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas was 24.9, compared with 27.1% nationally. Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 56.7% had no religion, 33.1% were
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, 0.1% had
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, 0.9% were
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, 0.1% were
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, 0.6% were
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and 2.4% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 609 (38.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 129 (8.1%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $51,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 543 people (34.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 993 (62.3%) people were employed full-time, 231 (14.5%) were part-time, and 54 (3.4%) were unemployed.


Education

Normandale School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, with a roll of as of .


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Normandale Residents AssociationNormandale School
{{Lower Hutt Suburbs of Lower Hutt Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in the Wellington Region