Taylor Street at the northern end of Hugo Shaw Drive in Bridleways Estate.
A Taylor Street sign at the northern end of Hugo Shaw Drive is about 450m of paddocks away as the crow flies from another Taylor Street sign outside Cambridge Raceway.
Confused? So was The News.
The plan, sometime in the future, is for a connector road to be built extending Taylor Street across the greenbelt to the west and linking up with the other Taylor Street.
And the hundreds of existing Taylor Street residents – the street goes east from number 1 another 2.2kms to 197 – can rest easy, no renumbering will be required.
The expectation is that there will not be any other addresses needed along that new stretch of Taylor Street in Bridleways Estate, say the council.
The intersection of Vogel and Taylor streets with Abergeldie Way looking across the greenbelt towards the Taylor Street extension in Bridleways Estate at the northern end of Hugo Shaw Drive. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Waipā District Council Growth principal engineer Tony Coutts said other than the sign already erected at the end of Hugo Shaw Drive, the public will not see any significant changes until Abergeldie Way is realigned.
Taylor Street outside the Raceway curves into Abergeldie Way presently but there are plans to build a roundabout there and then build a new road across the paddocks to the extension.
A new primary school will front the Taylor Street extension – bus and parking bays, street lighting, footpaths and landscaping are already completed.
But the primary school’s address will be Hugo Shaw Drive, not Taylor Street, said Coutts.
“We’ve definitely thought about this one because it’s been quite a lot of work working with the Ministry of Education to get this site established. They’ve had a few questions around naming as well.”
The eastern end of Taylor Street which intersects with Maclean Street. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
The council has also consulted over the last 18 months with iwi and the Conservation Department to ease the changes through with the minimum of fuss.
James Taylor
“Any land through the greenbelt, requires us to seek a revocation of land through Department of Conservation.”
For the moment though, if you want to get to the Taylor Street extension from 1 Taylor Street, Google says it is 2.3kms – an easy 32 minutes walking, nine minutes on a bicycle or five minutes in a car.
Taylor Street is named after James Taylor (1856-1938) one of the founders of the Cambridge Co-Operative Dairy Company and from one of the early Cambridge pioneering farming families.
Taylor’s Bardowie estate is named in recognition of the place in Scotland where Taylor’s father learned the rudiments of farming. Bardowie – in the area where the Cambridge Raceway is – was the centre of many social gatherings in Hautapu.
James Taylor’s Bardowie Estate, 1895. Photo: Cambridge Museum.
The northeastern collector road linking Taylor St outside Cambridge Raceway with Bridleways Estate and Hugo Shaw Drive. Artists’ drawings provided by Lynley Fife, Line and Design.
