This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
SOUTH Australia’s Malinauskas government will partner with developer Villawood to transform an empty paddock in Adelaide’s south into an 800-plus home sustainable community, with one quarter of the development to be affordable housing.
The $400 million Aldinga development aims to be a net-zero carbon community comprising a mix of townhouses, detached and semi-detached homes. It will include a residents’ club including a pool, gym and café, while extensive open space, parks, reserves and chain-of-ponds corridors will be complemented by extensive green canopy.
Located about 45 kilometres from the CBD, 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 to the new birth-to-year 12 Aldinga Payinthi College.
Central to the new master-planned community will be an over 55s lifestyle village on the site’s western parcel. The village will consist of two and three-bedroom homes, surrounded by recreational and wellbeing amenities. Proposals include a clubhouse with a pool, spa, sauna, gymnasium, cinema, co-working space and bar.
“This development will create a whole new community in a booming area of our city,” said South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
“It’s important this design incorporates affordable and sustainable housing options as well as a central community club and lifestyle village to create a vibrant community.
“This government is taking action to address the housing crisis and this is the type of master-planned development that will help us increase the supply of housing for South Australians.”
To achieve net zero the community will be all-electric and include gas-free solar, heat pumps, batteries, microgrids and specially designed lot orientation as well as mandated sustainable building materials sympathetic to the area. The development will also be 16% open space with canopy cover over at least 25%.
Alan Miller, CEO at Villawood Properties declared the development to be “seriously ground-breaking” for South Australia, and “blazing a new path for mainstream sustainable housing and premium affordability for the entire country”.
“We haven’t seen all the elements of cost, design, sustainability, social connection and quality come together like this before in any mainstream housing project in Australia.”
The development will be supplied with the necessary water and sewer infrastructure with Villawood to pay the $10,000 per-allotment greenfield augmentation charge outlined in the state’s Housing Roadmap.
A 60-metre-wide rail corridor has been preserved through the site for the potential 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, which will be landscaped and made available to the community as additional open space until the rail line is extended.
Public engagement on Villawood’s draft masterplan will occur later this year with construction due to commence next year.
State Member for Mawson, Leon Bignell said, “This will be welcome news for people in the southern suburbs and Fleurieu Peninsula who are looking to continue to live in our wonderful local area.
“As in many parts of Australia, the national housing shortage has had a detrimental effect on renters and people who want to own their own home.
The community supports this development and is adamant that it had to be done in a sustainable way that everyone can be proud of, rather than one where shortcuts are taken, and design and environmental factors aren’t given the highest priority.”
