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A delivery van has found the corner of your building twice now, and the second time it took the downpipe with it. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs bollards across Christchurch, working out of Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road in Islington. Sydney Chappell started the New Zealand company in 2026. Tell us what keeps getting hit and what still has to get past, and we will come and measure it up.
Which bollard suits the problem in front of you
Four jobs cover most of what people ring about, and the job decides the bollard rather than the other way round.
- Vehicle impact protection where something expensive sits close to a traffic path: a shopfront, a switchboard, a gas meter, a rack leg. Heavy end of the range, fixed in the ground on a concrete footing.
- Pedestrian separation along a footpath edge, or around a loading door where reversing trucks and foot traffic cross the same few metres.
- Car park and loading bay control, holding a corner that trailers cut through, or keeping a hydrant, fire exit or accessible bay clear.
- Entranceway access control, where removable and fold-down bollards earn their keep, because the gap has to open for the rubbish truck and close again afterwards.
Galvanised is the workhorse on yards and industrial frontages. Powder coating adds colour where the bollard is part of how an entrance looks. Stainless steel suits the spots that get touched and cleaned constantly.
Retractable bollards are the same idea at street scale. Christchurch City Council put 14 of them, a metre high, at the Hereford Street end of Oxford Terrace in 2022: closed most of the time, dropped when a service vehicle needs through.
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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
What actually happens when we install them
The site visit comes first. We measure the run, work out what you are protecting and which direction the risk comes from, and mark where each bollard lands so the spacing suits the vehicles you actually run.
Then we find out what is underneath. Services get located before anything is dug, and we check where the boundary sits, because a bollard placed slightly the wrong side of a title line turns into a different conversation.
Two ways to fix one, and the surface decides which:
- In-ground. A hole is cored or dug out, the bollard set plumb, and concrete poured around it and usually inside it. The hole goes past the base course into ground that will hold, and the depth follows the diameter and height of the bollard and what we hit on the way down. This is the fixing that takes a real hit.
- Surface-mount. A base plate bolted to an existing slab. No excavation, and the right answer over a basement floor or services that cannot be disturbed. The load goes into the slab, so the slab has to be worth bolting to.
Whatever comes up goes back: asphalt patched, concrete made good around the footing, pavers or seal reinstated so the finished job does not read as a repair.
Want it priced? Phone 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz and we will book a time to walk the site with you.
Buying a bollard and having one installed are different purchases
You can order a bollard this afternoon and have it delivered. What turns up is a length of steel with a coating on it. Whether it does anything useful comes down to decisions nobody makes for you at a checkout: where it sits relative to the kerb and the swept path of the vehicle, how far apart the run is spaced, whether the ground beneath will hold a footing, how deep that footing has to go and what the concrete keys into. That part happens on site, with someone standing on the spot. Supply is a transaction. Siting and fixing is a trade.
What a bollard quote depends on
Plenty of the Christchurch work now is first fit rather than repair. The rebuilt central city is mostly new apartments and townhouses, and each one arrives with a shared car park entry, a bin store and a footpath crossing to sort out before anyone has hit anything.
Pricing is on quote, worked out per site once we have seen it. What moves the number:
- Bollard type and diameter, and how tall it stands
- How many go in
- In-ground footing or surface-mount base plate
- What we are cutting into: asphalt, concrete, pavers, gravel or kerb
- Access for the crew and gear, and when we can have the area
- How much reinstatement the surface needs afterwards
Where the council comes into it
Inside your own boundary, on your own title, placement is generally yours. The moment the work touches the road corridor, a vehicle crossing, a berm or council reserve, Christchurch City Council is who to ask, and we raise that at the site visit rather than after the concrete has gone in.
Two Christchurch City Council thresholds matter if your bollards are part of a wider boundary job. A building consent is required for a fence or hoarding over 2.5 metres, measured vertically from the top of the fence to the ground directly below. Fences inside a waterway setback have to sit at least 3 metres from the bank, or one third of the District Plan setback distance if that is larger, or a resource consent is needed. Bollards are not fences, but plenty of jobs are both, and the council will confirm which rules apply to yours.
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Client Testimonials
5.0 Stars / 21 + reviews
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, based in Islington
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 handled in house, which is what lets us change a detail on site instead of ordering a different product. Full specifications sit on our page.
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Tell us the address, what you are protecting, and whether you are on concrete, asphalt or gravel. We will come and measure it.
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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Questions we get asked
How much does it cost to have bollards installed?
On quote, every time. The steel is the predictable part. The footing, the surface it goes through and the reinstatement afterwards are what shift the figure, and none of that is knowable until someone has looked at the ground.
How far apart should bollards be?
Auckland Transport publishes the most useful New Zealand reference: at least 1.8 metres of clearance between bollards and the kerb, and at least 1.2 metres between bollards around an entranceway so prams, wheelchairs and mobility scooters get through. Those are Auckland Transport’s figures rather than a Christchurch City Council rule. Treat them as the starting point and let the swept path of your own vehicles settle the rest.
Are driveway bollards worth it?
Depends what you are stopping. If a trailer keeps clipping the gate post, a pair ends it permanently. If the problem is other people parking across the entrance, removable or fold-down is the better buy, because you still have to get in and out yourself.
What can you use instead of bollards?
Wheel stops, kerbing, a guard rail or a marked exclusion zone all do part of the job. Bollards win where a moving vehicle has to be stopped outright and there is no room for a barrier with a footprint.
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