The pool was closed when the council built the Wanaka Aquatic Centre in 2018. The old pool site is next door to the college. That project is under way and due to be completed at the end of 2022. The Government has already invested $46million in redeveloping the college. The Wanaka Community Board this week unanimously agreed to recommend to the Queenstown Lakes District Council it revoke the old pool site’s reserve status and negotiate its transfer to the Ministry of Education.
The first hurdle has been cleared in Mount Aspiring College’s bid to build a new gymnasium on the site of Wanaka’s former community swimming pool.
