Vaile Court side, Leamington.
The Vaile Court site. Photo – Mary Ann Gill
Construction of 10 new one-bedroom pensioner units in Leamington for Waipā District Council will begin next month with the $3.6 million contract awarded to a Hamilton-based company.
The Vaile Court site – next to the existing complex on the corner of Shakespeare and Thompson streets and its 17 tenants – was cleared last month with some trees removed.
Livingstone Building will erect the units to a six Homestar rating equivalent which ensures warmer, drier, and healthier homes. Construction should be complete mid next year.
Council, which provides housing for 107 people in seven complexes across the district, will own and maintain the units under a lease agreement, but the tenants and rental process will be managed by Habitat for Humanity.
