Churton Park
Churton Park is the family suburb in the hills north of Johnsonville, farmland until 1970 and still growing up Stebbings Valley, with a village of shops around the New World and the community centre on Lakewood Avenue.
Why people love it here
Churton Park is one of the youngest suburbs in Wellington. It was farmland until 1970, when developer John Dick Walker began the subdivision and named it after Jock Churton, a Fletcher director he had worked with. The first houses went up in the mid 1970s, Churton Park School opened in 1975, and the suburb has kept growing since: Amesbury School opened in 2012, and the census counted 8,319 people in 2023, up by a seventh in five years.
The village is the part that makes it feel like a place rather than a subdivision. Built from 2011 on the low ground where Lakewood Avenue meets Westchester Drive, it is five buildings around the New World, with about fifteen shops, Simmer cafe, and the council's Churton Park Community Centre at 75 Lakewood Avenue running the playgroups and the classes.
Because the suburb was built across hills, there are walking tracks threaded between the streets. Callender Reserve has the Foxham Track and the Amesbury Track linking Melksham Drive to the streets either side, the Gifford Grove Track climbs to Toutouwai Hill Reserve for the view over Churton Park and Grenada, and the Stebbings Valley track runs from Westchester Drive past the Stebbings Dam to Rochdale Drive and on toward Glenside. Churton Park Reserve is the sports field, with the playground and the old macrocarpas.
The route 1 bus starts here and joins the ten-minute service at Johnsonville through the city to Island Bay, the Glenside interchange puts the suburb straight onto the motorway, and Johnsonville station is a short drive or bus ride down the hill.
The best of Churton Park
Every pick checked against its own listing on 21 September 2026.
What you can buy here
The 1970s three-bedroom
The first houses of the subdivision, on the streets nearest Johnsonville, brick and tile or weatherboard on a full section.
The 1990s and 2000s family home
The two-storey houses from the suburb's biggest growth years, four bedrooms, double garage, a section bigger than the inner suburbs give you.
The Stebbings Valley new build
The houses going up on the latest streets at the top of the valley, the current edge of the suburb.
A village and a valley
The village
Five buildings around the New World on Lakewood Avenue, with the cafe, the shops and the community centre.
Stebbings Valley
The suburb's newest streets and the track past the dam to Rochdale Drive and Glenside.
What people ask about Churton Park
Where is Churton Park?
Churton Park is in the hills about 1.5 km north of Johnsonville in Wellington's northern suburbs, off the Glenside interchange on the motorway, roughly 9 km from the city centre.
How far is Churton Park from Wellington's city centre?
Roughly 9 km by motorway from the Glenside interchange, and the route 1 bus runs from the suburb through Johnsonville and the city to Island Bay.
What is Churton Park known for?
Being one of Wellington's youngest suburbs, farmland until 1970, with the village around the New World on Lakewood Avenue, the walking tracks between the streets and the growth up Stebbings Valley.
What kind of homes are in Churton Park?
Nothing much older than the 1970s: the first three-bedroom houses near Johnsonville, the bigger two-storey family homes of the 1990s and 2000s, and new builds in Stebbings Valley.
What schools are in Churton Park?
Churton Park School and Amesbury School are the primaries, Rāroa Normal Intermediate is the nearest intermediate, and Onslow College and Newlands College both list Churton Park in their home zones, so check the address against each zone.
How many properties has Jason Lange sold in Churton Park?
4 properties, from my own sale records, counting every title once. Every one is on the results page with its address. See them→
4 properties I have sold in Churton Park
From my own sale records, read 17 September 2026. Sale prices are not published here.
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