Sleepytown – Are new towns the solution
Sleepyhead, the iconic NZ bed maker is changing ahead with a plan change in Ohinewai, a blink and you miss it dot on the map about 85kms south of Auckland CBD. They are going to set up a new working town. In short, the new town will centre around a manufacturing plant for their beds, with houses for workers and a village making up a brand-new community. The last time a new town was proposed was Rolleston south of Christchurch and before that all the little towns (villages) dotting the Waikato river for the hydro dams and forestry projects in the centre of the north island. And history will tell us, as long as there are plenty of sustaining jobs the town will thrive long after the foundations were put in place.