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Pole sheds and workshops for Harewood blocks, Canterbury

Harewood’s rural blocks on the city’s north-west edge sit close to the airport and inside the Waimakariri River floodplain overlay. That’s room for a proper pole shed or workshop, which we can line and fit out as well.

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Pole sheds
Lifestyle, farm and garage sheds, slab and all
Fit-outs
Lined rooms, bars and man caves
Licensed
Phil is a Licensed Building Practitioner
25+ years
Building across Christchurch and Canterbury
A cedar-clad store with black corner trims, a corrugated roof and black spouting and downpipes
A cedar-clad store finished with black trims and spouting.

Harewood at a glance

Council
Christchurch City Council
Zone
Rural land toward the river and Yaldhurst
Wind and snow
Plains wind; the lightest snow loads
Ground
Waimakariri River flood rules
Get a quote in Harewood

What we build in Harewood

From the slab to the fit-out

One builder from bare ground to a finished shed: Phil and the team pour the slab, stand the poles, clad it, then fit it out inside if you want.

  1. Timber posts braced in a boxed slab area behind a house, with steel mesh laid before the concrete pour

    The slab

    Posts braced, the slab boxed and meshed, ready for the pour.

  2. Timber posts and rafters standing on a new concrete slab, with scaffolding, on a rural block with a shelterbelt behind

    Poles and frame

    Poles stood, bearers and rafters up, bracing in.

  3. A steel-clad shed with two open bays and a window, on a gravel pad beside a post-and-rail fence

    Clad and roofed

    Roof and walls on, roller doors and windows where you want them.

  4. Inside a finished shed room: plywood-lined walls and ceiling, dark carpet and a glazed door

    Lined inside

    Ply walls and ceiling, carpet down, a door you can lock.

  5. A garage fitted out as a bar: dark timber panelling, a long timber bar top, lit spirits shelves and a dartboard alcove

    Fitted out

    A bar, a games room or a place to watch the rugby.

How a shed job runs in Harewood

  1. Tell us about the shed

    Use the planner, call, or send the form with a few photos of the site.

  2. Phil comes out and quotes

    He walks the site with you, checks the zone and the ground, and quotes the job himself.

  3. Know what happens when

    You get a timeline for the build and staged payments that match your job, so you know what’s coming next.

  4. Slab, poles and frame

    The team boxes and pours the slab, stands the poles and puts the frame and roof up.

  5. Clad, closed in, fitted out

    Cladding, doors and windows go on, then the lining and fit-out if you want one.

A cedar-clad pavilion with a flat dark roof, open on two sides, seen across a lawn
A cedar-clad outdoor room, open on two sides to the lawn: framed, clad and finished on site.

Harewood’s rural rules near the airport

Past the houses and the freight businesses near the runway, the Harewood Road side opens out into lifestyle blocks and small farms: the sections where a big shed fits.

The rural land on Harewood Road is zoned Rural Waimakariri. A house needs 20 ha. Sheds sit 15 m off the road (30 m off an arterial road or state highway) and 10 m in from other boundaries, dropping to 3 m on sites under 0.4 ha. Blocks between 0.4 and 4 ha can have 10% of their area under buildings and hard surfaces, to a maximum of 2,000 m². For Building Act purposes these are rural zones, which lets Phil put up a pole shed no bigger than 110 m² here exempt from building consent, since he’s a Licensed Building Practitioner, provided Schedule 1 is met in full.

Harewood Road’s rural land also falls within the council’s Waimakariri River floodplain overlay, and close to the runway the plan only allows a second unit on a rural block as a family flat inside the 50 dB air noise contour. Out toward Yaldhurst, and on Templeton’s western side, the rural zone changes to Rural Urban Fringe, with the same 15 m and 10 m setbacks. Harewood is about 40 to 50 m above sea level, with the lightest snow load.

A three-bay garage clad in charcoal steel with three roller doors and a side door, with pines behind
Three roller-door bays in charcoal steel, with a side door on the end wall.

Planning a shed in Harewood

  1. If your block fronts a state highway or arterial road, leave 30 m between the road and the shed.
  2. Send Phil your address before he visits so he can look up the floodplain overlay and zone for your block.
  3. Check your block’s size first: on sites under 0.4 ha the setback from the side and back boundaries drops from 10 m to 3 m, which changes where the shed can go.

Questions about building in Harewood

Is a Harewood pole shed exempt from building consent?

It can be on rural-zoned land, inside the exemption’s limits: a floor area up to 110 m², a height of no more than 4 m above the floor, no roof span over 6 m, a site wind rating of High at most, and clearance to boundaries, roads and houses at least equal to the shed’s height. Phil is the Licensed Building Practitioner on the job, and he checks the wind rating, because open land on the city’s edge can push it up.

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Get a quote for your shed in Harewood

Tell Phil what the shed is for, how big, and where it’s going. He’ll ring to talk it through and set a time to look at the site.

What to send Phil

  • Photos of the site, and the way in
  • A sketch or plan, if you have one
  • Roughly how big, or what it has to fit
  • Whether there’s a slab or pad already
  • Your town
  • When you’d like it built

What happens next: Phil rings you to talk the shed through, then comes out to see the site and quote the job. Rather talk now? Call 0800 001 297.

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