Boffa Miskell collaborated closely with the client, and architectural and engineering consultants, to provide a fully integrated urban design and landscape design response that offers a distinctive sense of place and a high degree of residential amenity. The landscape strategy celebrates the site and its special relationship to Maungarei | Mt Wellington and Te Tauoma while providing streetscape and public realm design outcomes that foster a sense of community.

Boffa Miskell provided design input into three Council design panel reviews, and further developed public realm proposals that consider:

• spatial allocation for pedestrian and vehicular use,
• the use of planting to provide visual amenity,
• ecological diversity and green infrastructure,
• the creation of spaces for the Morrin Road community to use and socialize in, and
• careful selection of landscape materials (including the use of basalt boulders reclaimed from the site).

These components collectively define the overall character and quality of the Morrin Road development.

The design team engaged with Marutūāhu and Fletcher Living to identify opportunity areas for cultural expression through both architectural and landscape design opportunities. The project is a joint venture partnership between Fletcher Living and Marutūāhu Rōpū, and is currently under construction, with overall completion planned for August 2026.

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