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https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/125578333/la
bour-of-love-relocating-massive-villa-was-absolute-madness?c
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I remember her posting about the beginning here.

princess52 - 2021-06-29 15:54:00
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Gee it is all lovely with that big house perched in the middle of 8.9H !! but in this era of a "housing shortage" that land could potentially have become approx 90 x 1/4 acres lots !!

onl_148 - 2021-06-29 16:09:00
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Gorgeous

jezabell - 2021-06-29 16:11:00
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onl_148 wrote:

Gee it is all lovely with that big house perched in the middle of 8.9H !! but in this era of a "housing shortage" that land could potentially have become approx 90 x 1/4 acres lots !!

groannnnn

jezabell - 2021-06-29 16:11:00
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onl_148 wrote:

Gee it is all lovely with that big house perched in the middle of 8.9H !! but in this era of a "housing shortage" that land could potentially have become approx 90 x 1/4 acres lots !!

What an utterly stupid comment to make.

casualobserver - 2021-06-29 16:23:00
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Awesome labour of love, stunning!

jeffqv - 2021-06-29 16:36:00
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wonderful.
as much as i dislike old homes performance, i love the style and the practicality which is so often missing from todays homes.

tweake - 2021-06-29 16:50:00
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Nice work. I have huge respect for people that take on this sort of project.

sparkychap - 2021-06-29 18:20:00
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I live just down the road a few houses away from where this home was moved from in Palmerston North. It is lovely to see it restored so beautifully. As for the comment about how many sections the new site could be subdivided into, take a look at what's happening to the old site in Palmerston North. 114 Residential Sections. There will even be a manufactured lake! https://www.veros.co.nz/projects/tamakuku-terrace/

Edited by kitty179 at 6:33 pm, Tue 29 Jun

kitty179 - 2021-06-29 18:33:00
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onl_148 wrote:

Gee it is all lovely with that big house perched in the middle of 8.9H !! but in this era of a "housing shortage" that land could potentially have become approx 90 x 1/4 acres lots !!

Get real. This is 'valuable productive' land and as such is to valuable to break into smaller lots. Anyhow there is a much larger development going on less than 2k away that when completed probably will provide in the region of 1,000 or more lots. AND, it has a component of 'affordable housing'.

brouser3 - 2021-06-29 18:54:00
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Is it wise, when land for housing and agriculture is under increasing pressure, to have such a property?

amasser - 2021-06-30 06:38:00
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Beautiful!, amazing work

usfour2 - 2021-06-30 08:31:00
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If you are that rich , better to spend it in Gods own

lilyfield - 2021-06-30 09:35:00
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sparkychap wrote:

Nice work. I have huge respect for people that take on this sort of project.

Me too.

johnston - 2021-06-30 11:04:00
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Wow - that's come up beautiful, well done Hayley.

Thanks Princess for bringing it to the boards, I too remember (all be it vaguely) a thread about that house when she started the project, great to see it finished. Although I now feel very inadequate with our own 14+ year reno, lol.

desi1969 - 2021-06-30 11:29:00
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onl_148 wrote:

Gee it is all lovely with that big house perched in the middle of 8.9H !! but in this era of a "housing shortage" that land could potentially have become approx 90 x 1/4 acres lots !!

With 90 septic tank systems, who would want to live on those sections ???

ebygum1 - 2021-06-30 18:02:00
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kitty179 wrote:

I live just down the road a few houses away from where this home was moved from in Palmerston North. It is lovely to see it restored so beautifully. As for the comment about how many sections the new site could be subdivided into, take a look at what's happening to the old site in Palmerston North. 114 Residential Sections. There will even be a manufactured lake! https://www.veros.co.nz/projects/tamakuku-
terrace/


lot of the land being built on is council land, not just where that house was. Incredible though what is being planned. My house used to look over the empty paddocks. Long sold now but interesting to see what is going to evolve. the paddock next to me always flooded in winter and there was the stream so hopefully good drainage goes in or perhaps that will be the lake as it s basically an old riverbed

fromnature - 2021-06-30 18:36:00
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fromnature wrote:


lot of the land being built on is council land, not just where that house was. Incredible though what is being planned. My house used to look over the empty paddocks. Long sold now but interesting to see what is going to evolve. the paddock next to me always flooded in winter and there was the stream so hopefully good drainage goes in or perhaps that will be the lake as it s basically an old riverbed

Now I think about it, yes there is far more land than that occupied by the original house. The whole neighbourhood tends to be boggy, so I guess the developers are using it to their advantage with the lake thing. There is a lot of drainage going in, presumably to divert water away from the residential sections into the lake.

kitty179 - 2021-06-30 19:10:00
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absolutely fantastic work by all especially the company that moved the house , the Kiwi "Can Do" isnt a myth from the past its alive and well... NZ has some absolutely amazing contractors and workers,

makes you wonder the real reason why NZ cant build a house that doesnt leak or a housing development that doesnt have a million $ as a buy in ? ..

thornton1961 - 2021-06-30 19:23:00
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