PHOTO: MONIQUE FORD/STUFF – Over the next two years the famed Erskine College will become home to 96 new townhouses for Island Bay.

The walls are coming down at​ Erskine College, the treasured Catholic school in Island Bay, to make way for 96 townhouses.

The Wellington Company started demolition of the school’s gymnasium last week.

Development manager Earl Hope-Pearson said the feeling was positive as work was able to begin.

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