[3] Normandale is home to a primary school,[4] a Playcentre,[5] a church,[6] a cattery,[7] and a dog boarding kennel,[8] and is otherwise entirely residential.

Jubilee Park opened in 1940 to commemorate Wellington's centenary (and the 50th anniversary of Lower Hutt a year later).

Mostly consisting of native bush (and the birds who live there), it also includes sites of houses built in the 1890s, a replica pioneer hut with the original chimney, heritage plantings, picnic areas, bush walks, three lawns, and a roadside calisthenics station.

[2] Jubilee Park contains Hutt Minoh Friendship House, a Heritage New Zealand category 1 building.

Originally named Norbury, it was built in 1904 by Lower Hutt's first mayor William Fitzherbert, to house his daughter Alice and her husband George William von Zedlitz, Victoria University's first professor of modern languages.

Today it is used to promote Japanese culture and Lower Hutt's link with its sister city Minoh, Osaka, whose mayor funded its restoration.

One of these, called the Old Coach Road by the European settlers, ran from the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour south over the hills, exiting through what is now Normandale, into the Hutt Valley.

Today Old Coach Road is part of the track system in Belmont Regional Park, and the section between the sealed Stratton Street end and Belmont Road junction is a Heritage New Zealand category 2 area.