Wanaka Primary School

The new owner of the former Wanaka Primary School has revealed his plans to build houses on the site.

The long-running saga over the Ministry of Education's disposal of the former Wanaka Primary School, in Tenby St, is almost at an end.

After failing to sell on the open market, the old Wanaka Primary School is being offered to Ngai Tahu again because a lack of market demand for development sites has caused the value of the property to drop.