The walls have gone up on WEL Networks substation being built at the corner of Hill Road and SH 23. The new building is being built using the tilt-slab method. The concrete slabs were trucked into Raglan during the week and then erected. WEL advise that they have been requested to ‘make it look like the other Raglan buildings’. It is understood that the Raglan sign will be put in front of substation building.
The new power substation will serve Raglan. Raglan is currently served by the Te Uku substation with only a small one behind the Westpac bank serving the town area. Livingston Construction, the same company that is building the new Museum, are building the substation. The new substation is part of WEL Networks’ “Western Network Upgrade”.