Developments

RetireAustralia launches marketing campaign for its Arcadia village in Brisbane

RetireAustralia has kicked off the marketing campaign for Arcadia, its 30th retirement village – tapping Brisbane agency New Word Order to handle naming, brand and a full launch across channels.

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Ian Horswill

21 Oct 2025

Development

Indigo by Moran: first look at Narrabeen village replacing Wesley Taylor site

A Sustainability Report by Northrop Consulting Engineers has revealed the first full scope for Indigo by Moran – a $220 million redevelopment of the 9,234sqm former Wesley Taylor Village and Residential Aged Care site in Narrabeen, 23km north-east of Sydney’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Redevelopments

$500M plan to remake Uniting Waverley Estate enters assessment

Uniting NSW.ACT’s biggest redevelopment on record – transforming the historic Waverley hospital into a “health and wellness precinct” – has moved to the assessment stage as a NSW State Significant Development (SSD) application.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Record Breaking

GemLife unveils its most expensive single-storey country club at Moreton Bay, QLD

GemLife will deliver its most expensive single-storey development to date at GemLife Moreton Bay, with an $18 million country club now under construction beside the 9ha Brolga Lake, offering waterfront and bushland views.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Government Policy

Good news for seniors housing development in NSW: Colliers

On 17 October 2025, Planning Minister Paul Scully switched off the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) referral trigger for State Significant Development (SSD) applications covering seniors housing and Build to Rent – the same change he made for in-fill affordable housing in December 2024.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Development

Central Element refiles its $94.2M CAPs DA for seniors housing after buying road in Greenwich, Sydney

Builder-developer Central Element has re-lodged plans for a luxury Community Apartments Project (CAPs) in Greenwich on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, after acquiring the public road that split its site.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Aged Care

Lowest number of aged care beds on record added in 2024-25

Residential aged care bed growth is being rapidly outpaced by demand, with resident numbers increasing by about 5,000 per year versus just 800 net new beds in 2024-25.

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Lauren Broomham

17 Oct 2025

Development

St Jude’s Health Care Services’ Perth residential aged care expansion

Perth-based St Jude’s Health Care Services has been named as developer of the aged care facility to be built alongside Providence Lifestyle Wattle Grove retirement village, and the operator has also lodged plans to build a two-storey extension of its existing Midlands Nursing Home.

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Caroline Egan

16 Oct 2025

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