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Commercial gates control the entrance to premises that the public, staff and suppliers all use. They go across business car parks, office and retail service lanes, school and childcare boundaries, apartment and body-corporate driveways, storage facilities, trade counters and contractor yards. What sets this work apart from a residential gate is who has to get through it: customers arriving during trading hours, staff before anyone else is on site, deliveries at fixed times, and after-hours access for nobody at all. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs them, and heavy site work and automation projects also sit under our Commercial Gate Co brand in Christchurch.

What the term usually covers

Enquiries described as commercial gate work turn out to be one of three quite different jobs, and it helps to name yours early. The first is a new gate: designing, building and installing a gate for an entrance that has none, or replacing one past its life. The second is automation and access: adding an operator, keypads, intercoms or readers to a gate that already exists. The third is service work, meaning repairs, hardware replacement and adjustments to keep an installed gate running. We do all three. This page is mainly about the first, and the retrofit and hardware side is covered on the gate access systems page.

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Choosing for a site the public uses

The gate type follows the entrance, but on commercial premises three extra pressures shape the choice.

Traffic mix. Cars, delivery vans, trucks and people on foot often share one entrance. That usually means a vehicle gate plus a separate pedestrian gate, so nobody walks through the vehicle opening while it is moving.

Cycle count. A gate that opens twice a day and a gate that opens two hundred times a day are different machines. Duty cycle drives the operator selection, the hinge or roller specification and the maintenance interval.

Appearance. A gate on a customer frontage is part of how the premises reads. Aluminium and powder-coated steel give a cleaner face; slats and sheet infill give privacy at the cost of wind load; vertical bar keeps sight lines open, which many sites prefer where staff are arriving in the dark.

Sliding and cantilever gates suit entrances with run-off space beside them and driveways that fall away. Swing gates suit level entrances with room for the arc. Where the entrance is tight and the queue matters, a bi-fold opens faster than either. Very heavy spans and yard entrances are covered in more depth on the industrial gates page.

What Group One New Zealand does on a commercial site

Design, manufacture and installation happen under one roof at Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026. All our gates are 100% New Zealand made and installed, we’ll also offer a fantastic after-sales service and warranty, and because we manufacture and install your gates ourselves, there are significant savings to be made when choosing the Group 1 team. Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel.

We are a small team, so you know you’ll get the very best, and everyone in our team has a vast amount of industry experience behind them to apply to each project undertaken. Premises we reach run from Amberley in the north to Timaru in the south, and west towards the Canterbury foothills. Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday, and we will book a look at the entrance.

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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 a commercial gate costs

Every gate is quoted on its own site, and the questions below get asked constantly, so here is what actually moves the figure.

How much does an automatic gate cost in New Zealand?

On quote. The drivers are span and leaf weight, sliding against swing, the operator’s size and duty rating, and how much access control is integrated. Those four explain most of the difference between two quotes for openings of the same width.

What is the cheapest gate to install?

Usually a manual swing gate on a level entrance with sound ground for the posts, because there is no operator, no power supply and no running gear. The saving disappears the moment the ground slopes, the span grows or somebody has to get out of a vehicle in the rain twenty times a day.

How much does a gate cost in New Zealand?

There is no useful national figure, and any number quoted without a site behind it belongs to somebody else’s entrance. Ground conditions alone can change a footing from routine to substantial.

What size is a driveway gate?

Set by what uses it rather than by a standard. The vehicles, including the largest delivery truck, the turn in from the road, and the fence line either side decide the opening. On a commercial entrance the turning geometry off the road usually settles the width before anything else does.

From measure-up to handover

Design starts on site. We’ll come out and take a look at the site and discuss ideas with you about the best solution for your situation: opening width, falls, surface, fence line, power, and how vehicles and people actually move through the entrance during a working day.

Manufacture is the workshop stage, where the frame, infill, posts, running gear and hardware are built and finished to those dimensions.

Installation covers footings, posts, hanging or setting the leaf, fitting the operator and safety devices, and commissioning. Where the premises has to keep trading, the work is staged so the entrance stays usable, and the handover includes showing your staff the manual release and how to add or remove access for a person.

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Do I need planning permission to install electric gates?

The motor is rarely the issue. Gate height, how close the gate sits to a boundary or to the road, and sight lines for vehicles pulling out are what can bring your district plan into it, and a gate that would open over a footpath or the road corridor has to be discussed with the council first. Christchurch City, Selwyn, Waimakariri, Ashburton, Hurunui and Timaru all set their own rules, so ask your council early and the gate gets designed to the answer.

Commercial gate work by town

Commercial entrances are handled across the same service area:

Commercial Gates Amberley
Commercial Gates Ashburton
Commercial Gates Christchurch
Commercial Gates Darfield
Commercial Gates Kaiapoi
Commercial Gates Methven
Commercial Gates Rangiora
Commercial Gates Rolleston

Book a look at your entrance

Worth weighing when you compare quotes: a commercial gate is not a purchase that ends at installation. It runs every working day, and hinges, rollers, tracks, locks and safety devices all need occasional attention to keep doing it. Every gate our team builds carries a comprehensive warranty and a full after-sales service, and the outfit that made your gate is the one that can still get parts for it in five years. That is worth more over the life of an entrance than the difference between two install prices.

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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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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Questions from commercial sites

Can staff and visitors have different access?

Yes. Staff on tags or remotes and visitors on a keypad or intercom is the common arrangement, and it means access can be withdrawn for one person without changing anything for everyone else.

Can you match the gate to our building or fence?

Yes. Colour, profile and infill are all specified at design stage, which is the advantage of a gate being made rather than ordered.

Do you supply pedestrian gates alongside the vehicle gate?

Yes, and on a commercial entrance it is usually the safer arrangement.

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