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A former New Plymouth mayor has put in a bid to buy two blocks of KΔinga Ora flats - planning to bowl them and build apartments alongside an upmarket development he already has underway.
Peter Tennent said he'd had enough of the unacceptable behaviour of some social housing tenants - and wanted to move his family into the neighbourhood.
The successful hotel owner served three terms as mayor of New Plymouth between 2001 and 2010 and is redevelopling two sites on Dawson Street - one featuring an apartment overlooking the Tasman Sea for his family.
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