The Pulse Whangarei is looking for a new site

The Pulse is looking for sites to move to but it is highly likely they will not be able to stay in Raumanga. Photo/File

A group of youth and family services which have to move from their Raumanga base are looking at other potential sites for relocation.

The Pulse, the home for 33 service providers, was advised by the Ministry of Education it could no longer hold on to the site - the former Raumanga Primary School - as The Pulse was not strictly an education provider.

The Pulse is now on a lease agreement which means it could be given three months' notice to move at any stage.

Lou Davis, manager of Te Ora Hou which is the head tenant of The Pulse, said because of this they were looking at options to relocate the services.

"While we're hugely disappointed to lose this we are grateful for the 17 years we have been there.

"Building-wise and land-wise there's not a lot of options to relocate that many services and programmes and in Raumanga there are no other options we're aware of that could house what we do here. There's a high possibility we might have to move out of this community, which really disturbs us," he said.

The Ministry of Education is to subdivide the property into three parcels, retaining the land used by He Mataariki School for Teen Parents and the adjacent daycare.

The other two parcels would be sold off, beginning with one containing the community pool and two classrooms which are due be demolished next month.

The pool was originally scheduled to be demolished in September but was delayed. Because of this the popular pool has been closed over summer.

The Pulse's remaining services have moved into the last classroom block on a temporary lease. Mr Davis said some services have already had to move from the site including The Correspondence School.

"We're still trying to facilitate space and rooms because we have quite a few meeting rooms and ex-classrooms. We're still up around the 30 different services running here from the site but we have had to change how we are doing it," he said.

The land could pass back into local ownership if the Government recognises a Treaty of Waitangi claim. But the community pool and buildings will still be demolished.