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A merchant yard on the highway, a vineyard entrance that has to shut at night, a transport depot where the trucks come and go before anyone is in the office: that is the shape of most industrial gates work in Amberley, North Canterbury. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs those gates and automates the ones already hanging on the posts. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026, and crews travel up State Highway 1 from a base on Foremans Road in Islington, Christchurch, roughly 50 km south. Tell us what the entrance has to do and we will come and look at it.

The work up here is rural service, not an industrial estate

Amberley is the largest town in the Hurunui District, with 2,520 usually resident people at the 2023 census, and it serves the dairy, sheep, arable and grape-growing country around it. So the gates are on rural-merchant and transport yards, service premises along the highway, and farm, orchard and vineyard entrances rather than on a fenced industrial park.

Those entrances have their own habits. They are often a long way from a switchboard. They frequently sit straight off a road where traffic is moving quickly. They get used by contractors and cartage drivers who do not work there. And they are commonly the only thing standing between a road and a paddock, a shed full of plant, or a season’s crop.

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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

How far north we come

The area Group One New Zealand covers runs from approximately Amberley in the north to Timaru in the south, with coverage west towards the Canterbury foothills. Amberley is the top of that run, and it is worth saying plainly rather than leaving you to find out: a job here is a planned trip up the highway from Islington, which is exactly why we would rather see the site once and price everything properly than make a series of short visits.

Getting a Hurunui visit on the calendar

Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday.

Because this is the top of the run, the visit gets planned rather than dropped in, and that works in your favour. One trip north can cover the entrance, the ground either side of it and anything else on the yard worth pricing at the same time. Four things make that trip earn itself: the site address and how the entrance is found off the highway, the clear opening width, the largest vehicle that has to come through with its trailer counted in, and whether power reaches anywhere near the gate or solar is the starting point.

If none of that is to hand, ring anyway. Hard to get at, short of room, or a very particular idea already in your head: those are exactly the sites worth talking through rather than guessing at.

Choosing a gate for a rural entrance

Opening width is set by the widest thing that has to pass, and the space around the opening decides the rest.

A sliding gate needs clear run-back alongside the opening for the full length of the leaf, and its ground track has to stay clear of mud and metal. A cantilever gate carries its weight off support posts with nothing running across the opening, which suits an entrance off a gravel road or one that collects water. Swing leaves need clear room inside the boundary, and on the plains a wide solid leaf gives the north-westerly a great deal to lean on. Bi-fold leaves fold back where the entrance has no room for either.

NIWA groups the coastal strip north of Amberley as its own Canterbury climate zone, with relatively mild winters and rather high annual rainfall that peaks in winter. Wet winters put the pressure on drainage at the gate and on the finish of everything low down: fixings, hinges, rollers and the bottom rail. Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel, and the specification for a wet, exposed rural entrance is a different conversation from one for a sheltered town frontage.

We can provide larger commercial motors for heavier leaves, and our gates are solar powered as well, which saves you energy costs. On an entrance a few hundred metres from the nearest power, solar is not a nice extra, it is what makes automation possible at all.

Automation on the gate you already have

Plenty of rural entrances already have a perfectly sound gate that simply has to be opened by hand every time. If the posts and the leaf are in good order, that is the cheapest job on this page. We hold parts, hardware, access controllers, remote locks and everything to do with customisation and the automation of pre-existing gates, so a motor, safety devices, a keypad or fob system and a proper opening method can go onto what is already there. Our range of safety devices and alternative opening methods allows us to have automatic gates on sloped ground as well as flat-level, which matters where an entrance rises away from the road.

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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

Jenni Weekes

Prompt and efficient service.

Very professional and experienced. Syd always answers his phone otherwise calls you back. Highly recommended.

Jim Dolamovski

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.

Michael Lakiss-Smith

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.

Tom Kul

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!

Gerry Incollingo

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.

Ben

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The gateway, not just the gate

Where an entrance opens straight onto a road with traffic at speed, the gate is only part of the answer.

Group One New Zealand does line marking, bollards, wheel stops, speed humps, convex safety mirrors and safety fencing as well as gates. On a rural yard that usually means enough space inside the boundary for a truck to pull fully clear while the gate opens, a marked route through the gateway so cartage drivers who have never been there know where to go, bollards where reversing vehicles can reach the posts and the motor, and a convex mirror where the view along the road is short. It is one visit and one crew rather than three trades taking turns.

What the rules say about height, and who to ask

Be straight about this one. There is no Amberley or Hurunui specific fence and gate height rule we can point you at, so the position to work from is the national one. MBIE’s Building Performance guidance is that a building consent is not required for fences or hoardings up to 2.5 metres high, that district plans made under the Resource Management Act may still require a resource consent for fences over about 2 metres, and that swimming pool fences sit outside the exemption and do need building consent.

Confirm the Hurunui District Plan limits for your site directly with Hurunui District Council, whose office is in Amberley itself. Once you have that answer, we design to it.

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Our Projects

What the quote is built from

Pricing is on quote. What the visit prices:

Clear opening width, and the weight of the leaf spanning it
Sliding, cantilever, swing or bi-fold, and the run-back or swing room the entrance can give
Motor size for the leaf, and how often the gate is worked
Access control, and how many staff, contractors and cartage drivers need issuing
Ground conditions, footings and drainage, which a wet winter tests properly
Power at the gate, or solar
New gate, or automation retrofitted to one already there

Group One New Zealand at the top of the run

Amberley sits at the northern limit of where our crews work, so a job here begins as a planned drive north out of Islington rather than a call to somebody already in town. Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026 and keeps the team 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.” The name in that quote is the marking side of the business, and it is the reason a Hurunui merchant yard can have the entrance, the route marked through it and the bollards around the posts priced by one outfit off one visit. All gates constructed by our team come with a comprehensive warranty and are backed by a full after-sales service. The wider range sits on our page. NZBN 9429053752833.

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Ask before you assume

If your site sits at the top of the Hurunui, or off in the back country beyond it, ask us before you plan around an answer. We will tell you on the phone whether we can get to you rather than leaving it vague, and if the answer is yes, the trip gets scheduled properly instead of squeezed in. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042.

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