Grenada Village
Grenada Village is the 1970s hillside suburb on the eastern side of the motorway above Johnsonville, its streets named for Caribbean islands and its back gate opening into Seton Nossiter Park.
Why people love it here
Grenada Village is a suburb built from a plan. Development started in 1977 on the old McMillan Block, the streets were given West Indian names in a nod to Thomas Drake, the 1840 settler who owned the land, and the houses went up over the following decades. Mark Avenue is the one exception to the naming, because it simply continues the road up from Paparangi.
There is no shopping street here and no pretence of one. The community hall and the playground share a corner of Mandeville Crescent, the hall doubles as the community emergency hub, and the residents' association has run both for decades.
The park is the reason to know the name. Seton Nossiter Park is 30 hectares of bush in Belmont Gully, entered from the car park at the top of Mark Avenue, with Belmont Stream on the valley floor, a remnant stand of tītoki and tawa, and the concrete abutments of the 1885 railway viaduct in the trees near the gate.
Johnsonville is two kilometres south for the mall, the train and the pool, Paparangi's small shops are down the hill, and the number 1 bus leaves the village for the city.
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Grenada Village, counted
Stats NZ figures for the statistical area Grenada Village, Place summaries. Population is the estimated resident population; the rest are the 2023 Census. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The best of Grenada Village
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What you can buy here
The late-1970s family home
Single-storey, on a sloping section with the drive at street level, the house the suburb was built with.
The Hunters Hill house
On the Mark Avenue extension opened in 2009, newer and larger, at the top of the suburb.
The townhouse in the new subdivision
The next stage of development on the land to the north and west, from stand-alone homes to townhouses.
A planned suburb with a bush gully behind it
Seton Nossiter Park
Thirty hectares of bush and stream from the top of Mark Avenue to Newlands, with the old viaduct piers by the gate.
The Caribbean streets
Jamaica, Mandeville, Grenada and the rest, laid out from 1977 on land first bought by an 1840 settler.
What people ask about Grenada Village
Where is Grenada Village?
Grenada Village is in Wellington's northern hills on the eastern side of the motorway, between Paparangi and Grenada North, about 2 km north of Johnsonville.
How far is Grenada Village from Wellington's city centre?
About 12 km by the motorway, and the number 1 bus runs from the village through Johnsonville to the city.
What is Grenada Village known for?
Its Caribbean street names, and Seton Nossiter Park, the bush reserve in Belmont Gully with the piers of the 1885 railway viaduct.
What kind of homes are in Grenada Village?
Single-storey family homes from the late 1970s onward on sloping sections, newer houses on the Hunters Hill extension of Mark Avenue, and the subdivision now being built to the north and west.
What schools are in Grenada Village?
There is no school in the village itself. Paparangi School is the nearest primary, and Newlands College names Grenada Village in its home zone.
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