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Four tenancies, one access lane, and a gate that everybody uses and nobody owns. That is the usual shape of an industrial gates job in Kaiapoi, where the commercial base is units of roughly 70 to 400 square metres and one entrance commonly serves several businesses and all of their freight. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs the gate, and just as often sorts out the control layer on the one already standing. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026, and crews come up from a base on Foremans Road in Islington, Christchurch, about twenty minutes down the motorway.
One gate, several tenants, and the question of who holds it
A shared gate is a control problem before it is a hardware problem. The awkward parts are always the same: a tenant leaves and their remote does not, a courier needs in at 6am, a fob gets handed around a crew, and nobody is sure who is meant to reset the code.
We hold parts, hardware, access controllers, remote locks and everything to do with customisation and the automation of pre-existing gates, so this is work we do on gates we did not build. What gets settled on site:
- How access is issued and, more to the point, how it is taken back when a tenancy changes
- Whether each tenant needs their own credential or the estate runs one shared method
- What happens for freight and after-hours deliveries when nobody is on site
- Who is called when the gate stops, and what the fallback is while it is being fixed
Industries We Serve
We proudly serve clients across a range of sectors, including:
Hospitals
Aviation Surfaces
Schools
Sporting Surfaces
Factory Safety Lines
Body Corporate
A yard with no spare metres
Unit estates are laid out to fit the buildings, and the vehicle space is what is left over. So the gate has to be judged against the turn, not just the gap.
If a truck cannot pull clear of the road while the gate opens, or cannot swing into the lane without a three-point turn across a neighbour’s roller door, the gate is working against the yard. Group One New Zealand does line marking, bollards, wheel stops, speed humps, convex safety mirrors and safety fencing as well as gates, so on one visit the truck path can be marked through the gateway, a pedestrian route separated from it, bollards or wheel stops set to keep reversing trailers off the gate posts and the control pedestal, and a convex mirror fitted where the exit onto the road is blind. On a shared site that marking does more than tidy things up, because it tells drivers who have never been there before where they are allowed to be.
Walk the estate with us once
Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday.
On a shared site the visit is far more use with whoever manages the estate alongside us, because the gate, the lane and the layout are one conversation and the answers otherwise sit with three different people. An hour spent walking it settles what the opening will take, where a leaf can park once it is open, and how many credentials the controller needs to carry across all the tenancies rather than the one that rang.
Bring the site address, and the number of units currently trading if you know it. A tight lane, a turn nobody can make cleanly, or a fixed idea about how the frontage should look are all better raised on that walk than after a quote has landed.
What automating a shared gate costs
Pricing is on quote, and questions about what an automated, motorised or driveway gate costs come down to the same drivers here as anywhere, with one extra that matters on a multi-tenant site:
- Clear opening width, and the weight of the leaf that has to span it
- Sliding, cantilever, swing or bi-fold, and the civil work each needs
- Motor size against the number of cycles a day, which climbs fast when several businesses share one entrance
- Access control: how many users need issuing, and whether credentials are per tenant or per site
- Ground conditions, footings and drainage at the entrance
- Power at the gate, or solar
- New gate, or automation retrofitted to the one already there
The last line is where most Kaiapoi estates land. If the posts and the leaf are sound, a motor, safety devices and a controller cost a good deal less than starting from the footings.
Ground, stopbanks and the storms that are coming more often
Kaiapoi rebuilt strongly after the earthquakes, and much of what is standing now went up on ground that had a great deal of attention paid to it. Footings still deserve a look rather than an assumption, particularly for a sliding gate whose track has to stay true across the full opening.
The town sits behind the Waimakariri and Kaiapoi River stopbanks. District projections point to less annual rainfall but more frequent and more severe storms, and Canterbury’s strongest winds come from the north-west. For a gate that means two practical things: drainage at the track so an entrance that ponds does not jam the gate, and a hard look at solid infill on an exposed frontage, because a wide solid leaf gives a north-west gale something to push against.
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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.
Which gate the opening will take
Clear opening width comes from the largest vehicle that has to get through. A sliding gate needs run-back alongside the opening for the full length of the leaf, which a tight unit estate often cannot spare. A cantilever gate keeps clear of the ground entirely and suits an entrance that collects water or grit. Swing leaves need room inside to open into. Bi-fold leaves fold back into the reveal where there is nothing to spare either way.
Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel. We can provide larger commercial motors for heavier leaves, our gates are solar powered as well, which saves you energy costs, and our range of safety devices and alternative opening methods allows us to have automatic gates on sloped ground as well as flat-level.
Waimakariri District Council, and the neighbour question
Waimakariri District Council keeps a deliberately light hand on fencing. It becomes involved only where a building or resource consent is required, or where the fence adjoins Council land. It also notes that a resource consent is likely for any fence on the road boundary or on an internal boundary, which on a unit estate covers most of the places a gate and its fence line actually go.
Nationally, a building consent is not required for fences or hoardings up to 2.5 metres. Where a boundary is shared with a neighbouring owner, the Fencing Act 1978 applies: a Fencing Notice has to be served and the neighbour given 21 days to respond before work starts. Confirm your own position with the Council, and we will design to it.
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Group One New Zealand, and the group behind it
The New Zealand company is new, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise. 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.” Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand side of it in 2026, and we are a small team, so you know you’ll get the very best. For whoever manages a unit estate the practical part is how many suppliers end up involved: the leaf, the controller, the marked lane through the estate and the bollards on the roller door jambs all come from one company, and because we manufacture and install your gates ourselves, there are significant savings to be made. The wider range sits on our page. NZBN 9429053752833.
Put one name against the gate
Shared gates go wrong when responsibility is shared too. Decide who holds the controller, who issues and cancels access, and who we ring when something needs attention, and half the trouble a multi-tenant entrance usually generates never starts. Bring us that name along with the site address and the rest is a straightforward day’s work. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042.
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Questions from Kaiapoi unit estates
Can several tenants have their own access to one gate?
Yes, and it is worth setting up that way from the start so a departing tenant’s access can be removed without changing anything for everyone else.
Our gate already works. Can it just be made automatic?
If the posts, leaf and track are sound, that is usually the sensible option. We check those first and tell you either way.
Who is responsible for a gate on a shared lane?
That sits between the owner and the tenancies rather than with us, but we will quote it however it needs to be split and put the paperwork in the right name.
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