185 Access Road, Kumeū

With its quaint country feel and peaceful outlook, this 1323sqm Kumeu estate offers the chance to escape city life and enjoy a more self-sufficient lifestyle. The current owners have lived here for the past 12 years and have created space for chickens to grow and thrive, producing abundant, high quality eggs.

Despite the tranquil rural atmosphere at home, the property is just a three minute drive to Kumeu village and all its shops, services and supermarkets. Motorway onramps are also handy for commuters, as are excellent schools, local vineyards, Riverhead Forest and the beautiful West Coast beaches.

The property is surrounded by lifestyle blocks and farms but is of a more manageable size, so presents space and serenity without the excessive maintenance required. Established gardens envelop the site and enhance privacy, with two garden sheds, two water tanks and a large three-bay shed for storing equipment.

Crafted in the 1950s, the two level home is well proportioned and offers excellent family separation. Upstairs, the spacious lounge captures a leafy green outlook, while the open plan kitchen and dining area is light and sunny. Two bedrooms up here are serviced by the family bathroom.

Downstairs, another large living space as its own access and is the ideal rumpus or teenage retreat. There is another bathroom down here, as well as two bedrooms - one that is so generous it is currently split in half and used as two. Along with the single internal garage, there is ample additional off-street parking on the driveway outside.

Escape to the country and live out your self-sufficiency dream here.

Disclosure:

1) This property is, in entirety, impacted by the Auckland Council (formally Auckland Transport) Designation 1496 for the proposed carriageway to link to the new State Highway 16 Alternative State Highway (ASH) Project. The project upgrades Access Road to an urban arterial corridor featuring separate footpaths, cycle lanes, stormwater wetlands, swales, and driveway re-grades. In this regard, see the attached plan.

2) The property is being marketed to support an application for the whole property purchase order under s185 Resource Management Act 1991 requiring Auckland Council (formally Auckland Transport) to buy the property under the provisions of the Public Works Act 1981. Under s185 RMA the owner must market the property at the market value it would have had, had it not been designated. Thus, no allowance for the blighting effect the designation has caused on the property's value can be allowed for in any sale.