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 * Welcome to the home site for the second Horizon Project for Diocesan in 2009.

The Stonefields Project.
|| ** Board Presentation Schedule: ** (Presentations will be in C249) Thursday 21st: 10:40 am - 11:30 am Group 2 Thursday 21st: 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm Group 3 Thursday 21st: 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Group 1 Friday 22nd: 8:40 am - 9:30 am Group 4 ||
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** The Stonefields Project. - another Diocesan Horizon Project[[image:Future_site.jpg]] **

 * Stonefields is a new, high quality urban village community that is transforming a long-disused area of Auckland: the 110 hectare site of the former Winstone’s Mt. Wellington quarry, only 8km from Auckland’s CBD.
 * Stonefields is far more than just another residential subdivision. It is a master planned community that will, when finished, include approximately 2,900 dwellings for around 6,500 people to call home, supporting Auckland’s need to create desirable urban living space for its ever-increasing population.
 * The community has a wide variety of housing options and will offer a significant range of amenities, including a 5.3 hectare lake & wetland area, a town centre, a primary school, a network of neighbourhood parks and a series of heritage trails around the community.
 * The Ministry of Education has acquired a 3.2 hectare site in the middle of Stonefields and intends to create a modern primary school that will be capable of taking about 500 pupils of school years 1-8 (aged 5-12 years)
 * The Ministry intends that the school would open at the start of the 2011 school year.
 * Because the school will be no more than ten minutes walk from the furthest house, it will allow pupils to arrive on foot, meaning less traffic and parking hassles near the school and less vehicle emissions in the vicinity.
 * A board of trustees is currently being appointed by the Minister of Education to get community input into the design process.