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Ask what has to fit through the opening and the answer out here is rarely a car. A header, a grain truck with a trailer behind it, a stock unit that needs room to swing wide off the road: that is the brief most custom gates in Ashburton are built to, in a district where primary industries generate 27.0% of GDP against 6.2% nationally. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs those gates, with crews travelling down from our base at Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026. Tell us what uses the entrance and we will come out and take a look.
Span comes first, and it is usually wider than people ask for
The most common regret on a rural entrance is a gate sized to the vehicle the owner drives rather than to the machinery that visits. A truck and trailer turning in off a road needs the opening wide enough to enter at an angle, not just to pass through square. So the measure-up starts with what comes and goes: contractors, the fertiliser truck, the stock crate, the tanker.
That span then decides the type. Very wide openings usually go to a slider or a cantilever rather than two leaves, because a swing leaf long enough to close a farm entrance is a heavy, wind-loaded object that needs somewhere to open into. Where a double swing does suit, we can provide larger commercial motors reserved for larger, heavier gates.
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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
Approaches that are neither sealed nor level
Farm and lifestyle entrances tend to be shingle, and they tend to fall away from the road. Neither rules out an automatic gate, but both change the design. A sliding gate needs a stable, consistent surface for its track or a cantilever arrangement that avoids the ground altogether. A swing gate on falling ground needs the arc worked out so the leaf does not ground itself halfway open in winter.
Our range of safety devices and alternative opening methods allows us to have on sloped ground as well as flat-level, so a stepped or sloping entrance is a design question rather than a dead end. If the site is a genuinely difficult one, tell us on the phone. If your property or commercial site is irregular, tricky, lacking in space, hard to reach or perhaps you have a very specific idea in mind, then we’re happy to talk to you. Essentially, if you can dream it, we can build it.
Materials, frost and the nor’wester
Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel. On the plains the two conditions that matter are wind and frost. The region’s strongest winds blow from the north-west and there is nothing between an open paddock entrance and them, so a wide solid leaf is the wrong answer here: slats, bars or mesh infill let the gust through and take the load off the posts, the hinges and the motor. Winter southerlies bring hard frosts, which is why clearances are set with the seasonal swing in mind and why fixings are chosen so a cold morning does not seize the hardware.
Timber suits a homestead entrance. Steel handles the widest spans. Aluminium keeps a long leaf light enough for a smaller motor, and stainless goes into the fittings that would otherwise fail first.
When the switchboard is three paddocks away
Getting mains power to a gate at the road end of a long drive is often the largest single line in the job. Our gates are solar powered as well, which saves you energy costs, and on a rural entrance that is usually the difference between an automatic gate and a manual one. Keypads, remote locks and access controllers work the same way on solar as on mains, so contractors and deliveries can still be let in without anyone walking down the drive.
What sets the price
Bespoke gates are quoted on a per-site basis after the visit. The variables that move it:
- Clear span, and whether that becomes a slider, a cantilever, a single swing or a double
- Material and finish
- Leaf weight, and the motor size that follows
- Solar or mains power at the gate
- Ground: the fall, the surface and what the posts can be founded in
- Safety devices, remotes, keypads and access control
- Access for the install truck, which on a narrow drive is worth mentioning early
Because we manufacture and install your gates ourselves, there are significant savings to be made when choosing the Group 1 team.
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The team from Group One were exceptional.
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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.
How we get from a site visit to a working gate
We’ll come out and take a look at the site and discuss ideas with you about the best solution for your situation. Measurements, fall, surface and power all get settled on that visit, and you approve the design before fabrication begins. Useful to have ready: the clear opening width you want, the slope across the entrance, what the surface is, whether power reaches it, and any style or material you have in mind.
The gate is then built. All our gates are 100% New Zealand made and installed. Installation covers the posts, the leaf or track, the motor and the safety devices, and we commission it with you working the gate yourself before we leave. All gates constructed by our team come with a comprehensive warranty and are backed by a full after-sales service.
Ashburton District Council: heights, retaining walls and pool gates
Ashburton District Council states you can build a fence up to 2.5 metres in height from natural ground level, and recommends talking to the Planning Department about a resource consent for anything over 2 metres. A driveway gate is part of that boundary structure, so those numbers apply to it.
Retaining walls are where it gets specific, and rural entrances often have one. A fence on top of a retaining wall needs a building consent if the retaining wall is more than 1.5 metres high and the fence more than 2.5 metres high. If the fence and the retaining wall are joined, a building consent is required outright. Swimming pool fencing is separately regulated and enforced by the Council, and a pool gate is designed to those rules from the start.
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Group One New Zealand, and the width nobody wants to remake
Get a farm span wrong and the remedy is a new gate, which is the plainest argument for having one outfit measure, draw, build and hang it. A header, a stock unit or a grain truck sets the opening, the approach is usually neither sealed nor level, and the posts carry a moving load that cannot be nudged once the concrete has gone off. The Council’s advice to find the boundary pegs first is worth more on a gate than on a fence for that reason. Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026 and it is deliberately small. Fabrication happens at Islington in Christchurch and the gate comes down the plains finished, with safety devices and alternative opening methods specified for ground that falls across the entrance rather than sitting level under it. The longer trading record belongs to Australia, in the company’s own phrasing: “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.” The page sets out the range.
Find the pegs before anything gets ordered
Ashburton District Council’s own advice on fencing starts with locating the boundary pegs, or having the boundary surveyed, before you build. For a gate that advice carries more weight than it does for a fence. A fence post in slightly the wrong place is an annoyance. A gate post is carrying a moving load, a motor, and an arc or a track that was set out to it, and it cannot be nudged sideways later without redoing the whole entrance. If the pegs are missing or in doubt, sort that out first, and the rest of the job is straightforward.
Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday, and we will arrange a site visit in Ashburton. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.
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What farm and lifestyle owners ask us
What will a gate for a farm entrance cost?
It is quoted after we have seen the entrance. Span, material, leaf weight, motor size, power supply and the ground all move the figure, and span alone can double it.
Can a gate that wide be automated?
Yes, with the right type and the right motor. Wide openings usually favour a slider or a cantilever, and the motor is specified to the actual leaf weight.
Our drive is shingle and slopes to the road. Does that stop automation?
No. It changes the type of gate and the ground preparation, and the safety devices and opening method are chosen to suit the fall.
Can you make a gate to match the homestead?
Yes. Timber and steel both take detailing, and we design to what is already on the property rather than to a standard profile.
Do you service and automate a gate we already have?
We carry parts, hardware, access controllers and remote locks, and we automate pre-existing gates as well as building new ones.
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