Instant Town - Sleepyhead, Waikato

[Brent George]

Billion-dollar Sleepyhead development gets the go ahead.
Stuff - National: 24-May-2021

Independent commissioners have approved a billion-dollar industrial and housing development in north Waikato.

The proposed Sleepyhead development will see a large manufacturing and housing community on the 178-hectare rural site at Ōhinewai, 10 km from Huntly.  The company Comfort Group, and its property arm Ambury Properties Ltd, will include industrial, commercial, and residential zones.  It intends on developing a mixed-use community over the next 10 years with 1100 homes for up to 3,000 residents, and a new factory creating up to 2600 new jobs.

[Brent George]

Sleepyhead town hits snag
Stuff - Waikato: 18-April-2024

A massive company town development that would allow bedmaker Sleepyhead to move its workforce out of Auckland to Waikato has hit a snag... over where to put the poo.

The inability to hook up to a fully compliant Huntly wastewater treatment plant could slow progress at Sleepyhead Estate’s major Ohinewai industrial and housing development site, a local councillor warns.

Comfort Group, whose 6000m²-plus foam manufacturing factory at the site opens in June, insists it’s not right to say that significant progress at Ohinewai has stalled because of wastewater issues. But it did note some “extended timelines”.