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Stock truck, grain trailer, or a customer who misjudged the forecourt: whatever hits things on an Ashburton site tends to be big. Bollards are what stops it reaching the wall, the pump, the switchboard or the shop window. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs them across mid-Canterbury, with crews travelling down from our Islington base in Christchurch, and Sydney Chappell started the New Zealand company in 2026. Tell us what has been getting hit and we will come out and set the positions on the ground.
Where they go in around a farming service town
Primary industries generate 27.0% of Ashburton District’s GDP against 6.2% nationally, and it shows in the work. Most jobs fall into one of these:
- Retail frontages. A row of bollards between the parking bays and the glass. This is the standard protection against a vehicle rolling forward into a shopfront, and it is also what stops a deliberate ram raid getting past the footpath.
- Farm supply and merchant yards. Protecting racking legs, gas bottle cages, fuel installations and the corners that trailers cut on the way to the loading area.
- Forecourts and service bays. Keeping vehicles off pedestrian paths and out of areas where staff work on foot.
- Entranceways. Removable or fold-down bollards where a gap has to open for a header, a truck or a contractor, then close again.
Galvanised steel is the workhorse for yards and rural sites. Powder coating goes on where the bollard is part of a customer-facing frontage. Stainless steel suits a smart entrance where the posts get touched daily.
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Industries We Serve
We proudly serve clients across a range of sectors, including:
Hospitals
Aviation Surfaces
Schools
Sporting Surfaces
Factory Safety Lines
Body Corporate
Boundary pegs, services, and what is under the spot
Ashburton District Council’s own advice on fencing is worth borrowing for bollards: find your boundary pegs, or have the boundary surveyed, before anything gets built, because the alternative is moving it later. A run of bollards set a little the wrong side of a title line is the same problem in concrete.
So the site visit does two jobs. We measure the run and mark positions against the vehicles you actually run, and we confirm where the boundary is and what is buried underneath before a hole is cut. Services get located first, every time. If the work reaches the road boundary, a vehicle crossing or council land, that is a conversation with Ashburton District Council, and we raise it before the concrete rather than after.
How the bollards go in
In-ground fixing means a hole cored or dug through the surface and taken past the base course into ground that will hold, the bollard set plumb, then concrete poured around it and usually inside it. That is the fixing that absorbs a real impact. Depth follows the diameter and height of the post and what we find as we dig.
Surface-mount fixing bolts a base plate to an existing slab. No excavation, quick, and the right answer where the concrete cannot be broken into or services run directly below.
Either way the surface goes back afterwards: asphalt patched, concrete made good around the footing, seal or metal reinstated so the yard is usable again.
Ready to have yours quoted? Phone 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz and we will book a site visit.
Buying bollards and having bollards installed
Ordering steel is the simple half. What arrives on the truck is a post with a coating on it, and none of the decisions that make it work have been made yet: which side of the traffic path it stands, how much gap to leave, whether the ground will carry a footing, how deep to go, what happens to the surface afterwards. Those get settled on site, by someone who has watched a stock truck swing through a gateway and knows how much room the trailer really takes. That is the part being quoted.
What a quote is built from
Pricing is on quote, worked out per site. The figure moves on:
- Type, diameter and height of the bollards, and the finish
- Fixed, removable or fold-down
- The number of units
- In-ground footing or surface-mount base plate
- What we are cutting into: concrete, asphalt, metal, gravel or kerb
- Access, and when we can have the area to work in
- Reinstatement of the surface afterwards
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Client Testimonials
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The team from Group One were exceptional.
They arrived on time, did a fantastic job and made our childcare centre carpark look like new . Thankyou
Prompt and efficient service.
Very professional and experienced. Syd always answers his phone otherwise calls you back. Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Competitive price, quality work and even helped me put up the customer parking signs. Went above and beyond. Thanks very much, Syd and Blake.
Great job and no complaints!
Wonderful to work with and helping us get our line marking completed. Would definitely use again and refer to others.
Highly Recommend Group 1 Linemarking!
We recently hired Group 1 Linemarking for a few of our residential strata projects, and the results exceeded our expectations. The team was punctual, professional, and clearly experienced. The line marking was crisp, precise, and done exactly to spec. Communication throughout the process was smooth, and they were flexible with scheduling, which made things a lot easier on our end. If you need reliable, high-quality line marking services, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Group 1. Great job!
Working with Syd and his team is always a pleasure
The quality of work is always to a high standard. The Group One team is always professional, they apply a high standard for safety ensuring their SWMS is tailored for the job and their equipment is serviced and well maintained. I highly recommend Group One and if you use them you won’t be disappointed.
Group One New Zealand on the mid-Canterbury run
Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026. We are a small team, so you know you’ll get the very best, and we guarantee all the work we do. Design, manufacture and installation are all handled in house, which means the person who quotes the job has already looked at the ground it goes into. Full specifications sit on our page.
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The mistake worth avoiding is a run set tight to whatever it protects because it looked right on the day. Bollards have to stand clear of the swept path of the vehicle that actually cuts that corner, or they get clipped week after week and end up being the thing doing the damage.
Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.
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Areas We Serve
- Bollards Amberley
- Bollards Ashburton
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- Bollards Timaru
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Questions we get asked
How much does it cost to have bollards installed?
On quote, after a site visit. The bollard is the predictable cost. Coring a hardstand, working around a fuel line, or reinstating a sealed forecourt are not, and they are usually what decides the number.
How far apart are bollards in New Zealand?
Auckland Transport publishes the clearest reference: at least 1.8 metres of clearance between bollards and the kerb, and at least 1.2 metres between bollards across an entranceway so prams, wheelchairs and mobility scooters get through. That is Auckland Transport’s guidance, not an Ashburton District Council rule. Use it as a starting point and let your own vehicle movements set the final spacing.
How deep should bollards be installed?
Past the base course, into ground that will carry the load. There is no universal number, and on a yard that has been built up with metal over the years the honest answer only arrives once we start digging.
Can bollards be removed easily?
Removable ones lift out of a ground socket that caps off flush. Fold-down ones hinge at the base and lock upright. A fixed in-ground bollard has to be cut and its footing broken out, which is a demolition and patch job, so pick the type against how often the gap really needs to open.
Do you cover the smaller towns around the district?
Yes. Ashburton sits inside the area our crews cover, which runs from Amberley in the north down to Timaru, and west toward the foothills.
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