Becmead Drive in Harewood – Named after Becmead Industries, the company that owned and farmed the land for 47 years. Developed at 519 Harewood Road. Named in 1999.
A small amount of information from the library website. Nothing on Papers Past about Becmead Industries and the Hill family farm was actually called Becmead Stud and they bred Jersey cattle.
In 1973 and 1989 the company called Becmead Investments tried to get the land rezoned from rural to residential but this was declined. They eventually managed to get it rezoned in 1996. Becmead Investments was formed in 1955 and went into liquidation in 2003. One of the directors set up a new company in 2004.
Most of houses were built in 2000 with a couple built in 2005. I started my walk at Wairakei Reserve where I was geocaching. It was a pleasant street with several different styles of houses and I quite liked most of them. The gardens were immaculate lawns with shrubs and a few had flowers but not many. I explored Benmore Gardens Reserve as there was an entrance to the reserve on this street. There was also an entrance to Becmead Reserve but I didn’t explore this reserve. There was a walkway from this street through to Hockey Street where I had parked my car.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 