Our Projects

With a rapidly growing café, bar and restaurant culture, Hamilton is now enjoying a tradition of eating and drinking al-fresco, thus the proposal was to extend the footpath to 6m and make the accessway one-way only. 

The proposal was to to increase Ground floor from 252m2 to 297m2 for additional storage and to add 1st floor of 255m2 for the new restaurant.

The proposal was to convert the existing industrial building into a Community Centre (1536m2) for the Sikh community.

https://www.facebook.com/SikhSocietyHamilton/videos/1478488518842013/

In 2006 New Zealand was home to more than 9,500 Sikhs, a religious and ethnic community based in the Indian state of Punjab. The first Sikh families came to New Zealand in 1890, mostly from the same local area in central Punjab. The New Zealand Sikh Society was established in 1964. Sikh numbers were very small until the changes to immigration policy in the 1980s. The first Sikh gurudwara (temple) opened in Hamilton in 1997. Seven more gurudwaras were set up in the Auckland area, and others in Tauranga, Te Puke, Hastings, Palmerston North and Wellington. The community has tripled in size since the 1990s, and in 2009 the first South Island centre opened, in Christchurch.Sikhs in New Zealand place a particular emphasis on Anzac Day commemorations, when they remember Sikh combatants at Gallipoli. They are also active in interfaith dialogue.Prominent Sikhs include Sukhi Turner, the mayor of Dunedin from 1999 to 2004, and Kanwal Singh Bakshi, who became the first Sikh MP in 2008.