Luggate

The size of the loss Dunedin City Council-owned Delta Investments Ltd has made over its investment in its residential development at Luggate could be confirmed later this month.

"Patience" is what is required for property developers, according to Delta's joint venture partner in Luggate Park, Jim Boult.

Anthony Marino has been mistaken for a minister, almost buried under a hay bale-sized bird's nest and literally smoked out of his latest handyman project, but he and wife Liz say the hazards and humours of transforming Luggate's former Presbyterian church into their home are all worth it.

An Upper Clutha wooden wagon believed to be more than a century old is set to get a new lease of life, in a nod to its modern-day transport counterparts.