Cargill's Castle is about to become a hive of activity for the first time in nearly half a century.
The Dunedin City Council has just granted building consent to the Cargill’s Castle Trust, to begin stage one of a development that will eventually turn the historic building into a major tourist attraction.
Trust chairman Steven De Graaf was delighted with the approval, which meant steel bands (plates) could be placed around the top of the walls to stabilise and strengthen the building, before going on to stage two which included creating floors, stairways and viewing platforms and filling in cracks in the walls.
