Stonefields

Stonefields is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand, located 8 kilometres southeast of the city centre.

[4] Stonefields is surrounded by the suburbs of Mount Wellington, Saint Johns and Glen Innes.

The 100 hectares site of single basalt lava flow from the nearby scoria cone of Maungarei/ Mt Wellington was purchased by Percy Winstone in the mid-1930s.

When the quarry was worked out by the year 2000, in excess of 35 million tonnes had been produced and used to build the city of Auckland.

A landfill rubbish site was considered and the plan was discarded due to the risk of leachate into ground water.

In 2002 New Zealand's Overseas Investment Commission approved the purchase of land surrounding the Mt Wellington quarry by Fletcher Residential.

Stonefields being developed in 2008