Sustainability and affordability will be the focus of a new housing development at Aldinga, after the South Austalian Government reached an agreement with Villawood Properties to develop a key parcel of land in Adelaide’s south.
More than 800 new homes will be built in the net zero-carbon community, with at least 25 per cent to be affordable. The development will feature a mix of townhouses, detached and semi-detached homes.
The project will include a residents’ club including a pool, gym and café. Extensive open space, parks, reserves and chain-of-ponds corridors will be complemented by extensive green canopy.
Central to the master planned community will be an over 55’s Lifestyle Village on the site's western parcel.
The Lifestyle Village will consist of two and three-bedroom homes, surrounded by world-class recreational and wellbeing amenities. Proposals include a clubhouse with a pool, spa, sauna, gymnasium, cinema, co-working space and bar.
The development will feature a number of energy saving initiatives including gas-free solar, heat pumps, batteries, microgrids and specially designed lot orientation as well as mandated sustainable building materials sympathetic to the area.
The environmentally friendly development includes:
- 16 per cent open space
- Tree canopy cover at least 25 per cent
- Net zero carbon community
- All-electric development
- Energy efficient homes including light-coloured roofing, solar, heat pumps, batteries and a microgrid to reduce energy costs
The 45-hectare site is bordered by Quinliven Road to the north, Main South Road to the east, Aldinga Beach Road to the south and How Road to the west and is adjacent the new birth to year 12 Aldinga Payinthi College.
The development will be supplied with the necessary water and sewer infrastructure with the developer to pay the $10,000 per-allotment greenfield augmentation charge outlined in the Housing Roadmap.
The State Government has preserved the 60-metre-wide rail corridor through the site to provide long term options for an extension of the Seaford rail line to Aldinga.
Villawood has committed to deliver a north-south shared use path along the eastern edge of the rail corridor. The corridor will be landscaped and made available to the community as additional open space until the time comes to extend the rail line.
Public engagement on Villawood’s draft masterplan will occur later this year with construction due to commence next year.
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