Development

Levande lodges new SSDA to rebuild 40-year-old Killara retirement village

Levande has returned with a fresh State Significant Development Application (SSDA) to redevelop the 40-plus-year-old Lourdes Retirement Village at Killara, 14km north-west of the Sydney CBD – more than 18 months after the Sydney North Planning Panel rejected an earlier proposal, a decision the operator called “deeply disappointing.”

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Development

Stage One of Keyton-managed Sunrise Beach Retirement Village to open in December

More than 50% of the 29 villas in Stage One of the Sunrise Beach Retirement Village have already been sold ahead of the community’s official opening on Tuesday, 8 December. The first stage will include the villas, a community clubhouse, and 15 co-located apartments.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Developments

Providence Lifestyle files two DAs for over 500 land lease homes in WA

Providence Lifestyle – founded in 2020 by John Green, Brad Denison, James Turnbull and John Wood – has lodged two development applications in Western Australia totalling 504 over-50s homes.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Government Policy

Further moves to accelerate retirement living in SA sit on desk of Planning Minister

South Australia – now at the epicentre of Australia’s aged care crisis – is yet to decide whether to allow greater building heights for large retirement villages and supported living developments, despite mounting pressure to expand accommodation options for its ageing population.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Redevelopments

Independent Planning Commission to have final say on Uniting Kingscliff redevelopment

The NSW Department of Planning and Environment has approved the State Significant Development Application (SSDA) by Uniting NSW.ACT to redevelop its aged care home in Kingscliff, in the state’s Northern Rivers region.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Development

OneCare announces plans for new Barossa Living retirement village in Glenorchy, TAS

Not For Profit aged care provider OneCare has unveiled plans for its newest retirement village, Barossa Living by OneCare, to be developed alongside its existing Barossa Park Lodge community in Glenorchy, a northern suburb of Hobart.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Development

Opal HealthCare to start construction on co-located Clayfield Terrace Care Community, Brisbane

Australia’s largest aged care provider Opal HealthCare has announced it will begin construction on the 133-bed Clayfield Terrace Care Community aged care home adjacent to Aveo’s Clayfield Retirement Living village in Brisbane, next year.

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Caroline Egan

09 Oct 2025

Development

First homes near lock-up at Halcyon Gables – Stockland’s first land lease community in NSW

The first homes in Stage One of Stockland Halcyon Gables, the developer’s first land lease community in New South Wales, are approaching lock-up as construction accelerates within the Gables masterplanned community in Sydney’s Hills Shire, 52km northwest of the CBD.

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Ian Horswill

06 Oct 2025

Legal Issues

Land lease community and hospital plan in QLD’s Agnes Water heads to court after council refuses extension

Plans for a major land lease community and hospital in Agnes Water, Central Queensland, are now before the Planning and Environment Court after Gladstone Regional Council refused to extend the project’s development approval.

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Ian Horswill

06 Oct 2025

Development

New 121-home relocatable park adds to retirement living boom in Toowoomba

Toowoomba’s status as one of Queensland’s major retirement living hotspots continues to grow, with a new 121-dwelling relocatable home park proposed for the city’s southwest.

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Ian Horswill

06 Oct 2025

Developments

More than 50% of apartments pre-sold at Goodwin’s new Canberra retirement village

Goodwin Aged Care Services has achieved more than 50% pre-sales at its newest retirement community, Goodwin Village Downer, in Canberra’s inner north – marking strong demand for the Not For Profit provider’s next-generation village model.

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Ian Horswill

06 Oct 2025

Developments

IRT to unveil new vision for integrated seniors’ living community on NSW South Coast

Community-owned provider IRT will reveal a “bold new vision” for its proposed seniors’ living community in Milton, 222km southwest of Sydney, at a series of community drop-in sessions and an online webinar in mid-October.

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Ian Horswill

03 Oct 2025

Selling

Encore Living begins construction on new Paynesville retirement village

Encore Living has started construction on its latest retirement community in Paynesville, Victoria, a lakeside town 293km east of Melbourne’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

03 Oct 2025