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One gate, five businesses, and a courier who needs to get in at 6.40am without anybody’s key. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs commercial gates in Kaiapoi and marks out the shared yard behind them, running up from our Islington base in Christchurch, about 20 minutes down the road. Sydney Chappell started the New Zealand company in 2026. Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. We come out, look at the site and talk the solution through before anything is quoted or built.
The hard part is not the leaf, it is who gets through it
Kaiapoi’s commercial base in North Canterbury is built around industrial units of roughly 70 to 400 square metres, along with retail frontages and offices. On a block like that, one gate usually serves several tenants, and the specification problem moves from steel to access.
That is a real design conversation, and it starts with a list. Who needs permanent access, who needs a window, and who needs to be let in once. Keypads, remotes, intercoms, card and fob readers, access controllers and remote locks each answer a different part of it: fobs issued per tenant so one business leaving does not mean rekeying everybody, a code for the cleaner that can be changed without a site visit, an intercom for the delivery driver who has neither, and remote locks for the unit doors where that matters.
Motors are sized to leaf weight and to how often the gate cycles, and a shared gate cycles far more than a single-tenant one. Safety devices go on every automated installation. Where mains power has not reached the gate post, solar runs it. If a sound gate is already there, we supply the parts, hardware, access controllers and remote locks to automate it rather than replace it, and our safety devices and alternative opening methods allow automatic gates on sloped ground as well as flat-level.
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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 else gets marked out on a shared yard
A shared apron is where tenants’ vehicles meet each other, which is the argument for doing the gate and the yard as one job rather than two:
- Car park bays allocated and numbered per tenant, with aisles, arrows and hatching
- Internal traffic lanes, walkthrough lanes and forklift paths
- Loading and storage zones marked so one tenant’s pallets stop landing in another’s turning space
- Bollards on switchboards, roller door jambs and unit corners
- Wheel stops, speed humps and convex safety mirrors where the apron turns blind
- Safety and palisade fencing carrying the line into the gate posts
One crew, one mobilisation, one set of drawings. Our vision is to create safer, more efficient parking environments for both drivers and pedestrians, and on a multi-tenant block that means the route from the street through the gate to a numbered bay is drawn once, for everybody, instead of negotiated by whoever parked first.
Slider, cantilever or swing on a tight apron
Span comes first, then side room for a track run, leaf weight, duty cycle, and what has to fit through. On a shared yard a swing leaf often has nowhere to go, because the arc it needs is the space a tenant is using. A sliding gate on a track takes side room instead, and a cantilever free-spans the opening with nothing crossing the ground, which suits an apron that forklifts and trailers run over all day. A bi-fold folds back into a shallow reveal on a tight frontage, and a boom or barrier arm suits a car park where the job is managing vehicles rather than securing a yard.
Then the vehicles. A van and a ute with a trailer is one clear width. A forklift crossing between units, a stock truck or a container unit is another, and the widest thing that ever comes through sets the opening.
Materials, footings and the ground here
Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel. Steel carries a wide span, aluminium keeps a high-cycle leaf light on its rollers, and stainless goes into fixings that have to hold their finish. Steel is hot-dip galvanised and then powder coated, and larger commercial motors are available for heavier custom leaves.
Ground matters more here than most people expect. The township sits behind the Waimakariri and Kaiapoi River stopbanks, much of the town was rebuilt after the earthquakes, and district projections point to fewer millimetres of annual rainfall but more frequent and severe storms. That is a footing and drainage conversation before it is a gate conversation: post depth, what the footing is bearing on, and where water goes when it comes off the apron hard. Canterbury’s strongest winds come from the north-west, so post size and footing depth are set for the leaf they carry and the exposure it sits in.
All our gates are 100% New Zealand made and installed, by the same team, which is where the saving sits.
Waimakariri District Council, and the neighbour
Waimakariri District Council only becomes involved in fencing where a building or resource consent is required, or where the fence adjoins Council land. It notes that a resource consent is likely for any fence on the road boundary or an internal boundary, which covers most commercial gates.
Nationally, a building consent is not required for fences or hoardings up to 2.5 metres, though district plans commonly trigger a resource consent above about 2 metres. Boundary fences are governed by the Fencing Act 1978, under which a neighbour must be served a Fencing Notice and given 21 days to respond before work begins. On a block of leased units that notice may need to reach the owner rather than the tenant who called us. Our equipment and installations are built to meet local requirements, but confirm the current position with Waimakariri District Council before work starts.
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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.
What a quote depends on
Bespoke pricing after a site visit. What moves it:
- Clear opening span and configuration
- Leaf weight, material and finish
- How level the ground is, and the groundwork the footings or a track run need
- Motor duty rating, which on a shared gate is higher than people assume
- Mains power at the gate, or solar
- How deep the access control goes, from one remote to per-tenant fobs and a controller
- Access for the install crew
- Whether the yard and car park works are done in the same visit
Group One New Zealand, and who the property manager rings
On a block of leased units the useful thing about a small team is that one number covers the leaf, the controller and the marked apron behind them. Group One New Zealand was started by Sydney Chappell in 2026 and is kept deliberately small, so you know you’ll get the very best. In the company’s own words: “Although Group 1 Line Marking has just started here in New Zealand, as a group we have been operating in Australia for almost 25 years.” We guarantee all the work we do, and every gate the team builds carries a comprehensive warranty with full after-sales service, so a tenant change or a clipped bollard is the same call as the original job rather than a fresh search for a contractor. New Zealand Business Number 9429053752833. The page carries the full range.
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Write the access list first
Before we quote a shared gate, one page of notes settles most of it: every business on the block, who needs access at what hours, who is a regular delivery, and who turns up once and never again. Bring that to the site visit and the controller specification writes itself.
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.
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Cost questions we get from Kaiapoi
How much does an automatic gate cost in New Zealand?
It is quoted per site. Span, leaf weight, ground conditions, motor duty rating, power or solar, and the access control specification are what move it. Any published range belongs to somebody else’s gate on somebody else’s ground.
How much does it cost to put in a motorised gate on a shared yard?
The gate itself prices like any other. What is different is the access control, because issuing and managing credentials for several tenants is a bigger specification than one remote in one glovebox.
Can each tenant have their own code or fob?
Yes, and it is worth doing. Per-tenant credentials mean a tenant moving out is a five-minute job at the controller rather than a new lock and new keys for everyone.
Who signs off the work on a leased unit?
Usually the owner or the property manager, not the tenant who noticed the problem. Knowing that at quoting stage saves a second visit.
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