This is a dedicated project page to update the community on the Boucher Avenue project.

Project update: 25 August 2026

Works on Boucher Ave and its surrounding streets in Te Puke will resume from 31 August 2026. The works were paused from 31 March 2026 to allow safer and easier movement of large orchard vehicles during the kiwifruit harvest season.

The upgrades along Boucher Avenue and its surrounding streets are to improve the stormwater system, drinking water pipes, and road. This area is a key route in Te Puke – used frequently by residents, students and families, emergency services, kiwifruit industry traffic, and others in our community.

This is a coordinated project which is essential to strengthen underground infrastructure and rebuild the road so it is safer, more durable, and better suited to everyday traffic and heavy vehicle movements, ensuring it can serve the community well into the future.

Current status

✅ Stormwater upgrades are complete
💧 Drinking water upgrades are complete
🚧 Road reconstruction is partially complete and stage 2 resumes on 31 August 2026.

From 31 August, Fulton Hogan, the contractor, will kick off the next stage (stage 2) of the road reconstruction. Traffic management will be in place, with a detour route along Hookey Drive, Cameron Road, and Clydesburn Ave. Resident access will be maintained at all times.

Service Investigations will take place Monday 31 Aug to Friday 4 September between Randall Place and Oxford Street. There’ll be stop-go traffic management at Oxford St with resident access maintained at all times. Service investigations are an important part of road reconstruction where certain points of the road are opened to mark out what services run beneath the pavement in advance of excavation.

Residents are asked to take care when travelling through the area and follow traffic management team instructions as there’ll be machinery and Fulton Hogan staff working in the area. Please plan ahead and allow extra travel time while the work is ongoing.

Overall, the works (stages 2 to 7) are expected to take approximately six months to complete, ahead of the next kiwifruit harvest season starting.

Thank you for coming along to our community information session

A community information session was held on 15 August at the Te Puke Fire Station where Council’s road engineers and our construction team, Fulton Hogan explained the work, discussed traffic impacts, and answered residents' questions relating to the Boucher Ave upgrades. It was great to connect with everyone who attended. For those who could not attend, all information shared is available on this page (below and on the right hand side), including FAQs and more detail on the staging plan and detour routes.

Overall project timing

• Duration: From 31 August 2026 – approx. six months
• Work hours: 7:00am and 6:00pm, Mondays to Saturdays (inclusive)
• Timing may change depending on weather conditions.
• Saturdays will mainly be used if extra work is needed. If work is planned for a Saturday, residents will be notified in advance.

What’s happening?

Works will involve:

• Sections of road being excavated and rebuilt in stages
• Laying new chipseal
• Applying road markings.

Streets impacted

• Boucher Avenue
• No. 2 Road
• Cameron Road (detour route, remedial works)
• Clydesburn Avenue (detour route, remedial works)
• Hookey Drive (detour route)
• Randell Place (remedial works)
• Dudley Vercoe Drive, Tynan Street (detour route)
• Glen Terrace, Moehau Street (detour route).

What to expect during construction

The team will work to minimise disruption to the community as much as is reasonably possible. Fulton Hogan will share more detail with residents directly impacted on what to expect closer to construction starting. In general, residents can expect:

• Some road closures and detours
• Single-lane stop/go traffic management
• Delays on Boucher Ave, particularly during peak periods
• Construction vehicles and work crews operating throughout the day
• Periods of noise and vibration.

We’re advising the community to please plan ahead and allow extra travel time while the work is ongoing.

Driveway access

Temporary driveway closures will be required at times – that is the nature of this type of road reconstruction.

During the day (7:00am and 6:00pm): Resident vehicle access within the work area will be maintained wherever possible using temporary ramps or coverings. If you need access at a specific time, please contact Fulton Hogan’s Stakeholder Delivery Manager, Mike Metcalfe (details below). The team can work around specific resident needs if they are given advance notice.

At all times: Pedestrian access remains open.

Overnight (6:00pm – 7:00am): Full access will be restored to all properties.

Mike Metcalfe will contact you in advance before any work that directly affects your access and will be onsite frequently to visit impacted residents and answer any questions about access or the works in general.

For questions about property access, please contact:

Mike Metcalfe – Stakeholder Delivery Manager, Fulton Hogan

Phone: 027 202 9395

Email: Michael.metcalfe@fultonhogan.com

Why are we doing this project?

This area is a key route in Te Puke – used frequently by residents, students and families, emergency services, kiwifruit industry traffic, and others in our community. This work is essential to improve road conditions and safety, and to ensure our water and stormwater infrastructure continues to serve the community well into the future.

By coordinating all three upgrades - roading, stormwater and watermain pipes - into one project, it's more cost efficient, and we'll minimise future disruption by avoiding the need to return to the same streets later. Multiple contractors will work across the area to deliver the upgrades efficiently.

Have pātai (questions), or want to kōrero with someone?

General project enquires:

Western Bay of Plenty District Council

Phone: 0800 926 732

Email: info@westernbay.govt.nz

Questions about property access:
Mike Metcalfe – Stakeholder Delivery Manager, Fulton Hogan

Phone: 027 202 9395

Email: Michael.metcalfe@fultonhogan.com