Taradale, New Zealand - Facilities

Facilities

Medical centres

Taradale Medical Centre, provides doctors appointments for general consultations, and our General Practitioners general medical services (GP's) and Practice Nurses provide an extensive range of including treatments of accidents and injuries, pregnancy care, minor surgery and medical examinations. Taradale Medical Centre is a member of the Hawke’s Bay PHO, an organisation committed to providing comprehensive quality care in general practice. The facility has recently been upgraded to a larger and more modern medical centre, to handle with the increasing population of the Taradale area.

Greendale Family Health Centre, located between Taradale and Greenmeadows. The centre provides consultation, nursing and cervical services, immunisation, prescriptions and many health tips and services.

The Doctors, Greenmeadows, is a purpose-built medical centre, part of a cluster of healthcare facilities. Radius Pharmacy and Greenmeadows Physiotherapy are located within the centre, and HB Radiology and Parkside Hospital are on the same site.

Taradale Library

When Napier and Taradale amalgamated in 1968, the Taradale Library became a branch of the Napier Library. Since 2008, to coincide with the roll-out of new branding, the Library system is now known as Napier Libraries. The former Taradale Library, created through extension of the former Rugby Club Rooms, was opened on White Street in 1995. The current re-built and enlarged Taradale Library building re-opened on 13 July 2009. The Taradale Library extension project was a major focus of the Study and it was recommended that the Library building be extended to a total floor area of 1275 square metres. The upgrade of $1.7-million, provided a light and spacious building that caters for the information, educational and recreational needs of all age groups. The new-look library makes the most of its setting in White Street, with comfortable seating and extensive windows that take advantage of views of Centennial and Taradale parks.

Pettigrew Green Arena

Taradale also hosts the Pettigrew Green Arena which is a large facility which can accommodate for small or large sports games, concerts and fairs. It also has a gym, squash / badminton facilities, yoga and ball training as well as the Sports Hawkes Bay office. Sports Hawkes Bay helps with promoting sport to young people, organising games and competitions and has a service offered to young children to help them lead more healthy lives, as well as some programs for adults.

Tareha Recreational Reserve

Tareha Recreational Reserve, Originally set aside as a Crown reserve in 1917 as part of a soil conservation and river control reserve for the Tutaekuri River, the land was cut off from the riverbed by the construction of the stopbank in 1970. Its ownership passed from the Hawke's Bay Catchment Board to the Hawke's Bay Regional Council, and during this period it was used as a nursery and for grazing stock. In 1992, the Taradale Rugby Club approached the regional council looking to lease the area for playing fields. The negotiations that followed saw the transfer of the land to Napier City to be developed as a recreation reserve for the rapidly expanding urban area of Taradale-Greenmeadows.

The park's name commemorates an outstanding Maori figure involved in the early affairs of the area.

Park Island

Park Island Sports complex is within 5 minutes drive of Taradale and is heavily used for local, regional and national sporting events, in particular soccer hockey and rugby.