St Peter's school to hive off farm and build houses

St Peter's school to hive off farm and build houses
Two stage housing development will be an 'endowment fund' for the school. (Image: supplied)
Brent Melville
St Peter’s School in Cambridge celebrated its 86th anniversary this week by announcing it will sell 32 hectares of its attached 170ha dairy farm, slated for development into 320 upmarket homes.Chair John Macaskill-Smith said the school’s board had entered into a joint venture agreement with a local developer, 3Ms of Cambridge, that will see “less productive” parts of the dairy ‘Owl Farm’ transformed into a residential subdivision over the next four years.3Ms, owned by local developers Mitch Plaw and Michael a...

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