431 Jackson Street, Petone, Lower Hutt City

Paetutu Petone

Lower Hutt City Community Halls

Paetutu Petone

An trio of heavy hitting imports from the city - The Wellington Company (developer Ian Cassells), Taranaki Whanui (The Port Nicholson Settlement Trust) and Colab Architects, have tried their arm at creating gentrified townhouse living by the river and golf course.

All three were new to the Hutt Valley, creating the Paetutu project upon their patch purchased directly next door to some of New Zealand's least enviable neighbours, four of Housing New Zealand's remaining low rise apartment blocks, riddled with crime including murder.

Paetutu could be viewed as an experiment inverse to the 'pepper potting' of social housing in 'good areas' which provided Prime Minister John Key a brag-worthy childhood in the 1960s. A family with some needs placed amongst those with few, and he says he thrived. In 2020, the opposite has here occurred, and the middle classes, so desperate for a home they made a choice to invest in a old neighbourhood of poor repute.

All units were sold, thanks to desperation and the housing crisis, and despite distances to the airport and the city. The developers got their money, and the millennial yuppies moved in in March 2020, opening up the experiment for real time testing, as to whether this social sandwich is palatable or digestable, one pertinent issue being whether the locks on the doors and the windows of the Paetutu townhouses are up to spec.

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