A meeting deciding whether Tauranga City Council will proceed with selling land at the Historic Village has been cancelled.

The decision was due to be made today, but has been scrapped to allow the council to obtain more information, says a statement released from TCC.

The city council has put off making a call on the TECT community hub project.

The council is wants to gather additional information on costs relating to the project.

The public will be informed when the date has been finalised.

When Tauranga City councillors made the decision on November 29 to open the community engagement process, it was said at the time it was so the final decision could be made in February.

The Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust wants to build a two storey, $10 million community services hub on about 4790m2 of land currently occupied by the Envirohub building, which TECT will relocate once final approval is obtained.

The proposal is to build a two story building providing office space for the voluntary sector, in what is regarded as a game changer for the Western Bay of Plenty.

'There are a myriad of organisations doing good works in the community, and I estimate nearly 100 per cent of them are running their own back office systems, telephone answering system, office accommodation which are only used on part time basis,” WBOPDC councillor Garry Webber said at the November meeting.

Also openly discussed at the meeting is the swampy nature of the land at the village green, and that bringing the land up to standard to support a two storey building will be at the cost of the Tauranga City council.

Back in November, TECT chairman Bill Holland acknowledged there are drainage issues with the land.

'I didn't realise it's a damn swamp,” says Bill. 'There's a spring there. I didn't realise that. I often wondered why it wasn't used more often and the answer is it is wet, too wet to sit on.”

There is an engineering solution, says Bill, and TECT obtained a report saying building the proposed two story building on site will cost, but it can be done.

'We have said at the outset we will pay what it is worth, less what it costs to make it worth what it is,” says Bill.

'If the council want to do the whole thing itself, it can. That will be great if you can get the land to the state where it can actually be built on, then we will buy it.”

TECT is not doing it as an investment exercise, says Bill.