Mbark founders John Leo, James Robinson and Adam Somerville’s retirement village project with Federal Golf Club in Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, has been approved yet opposition is rallying against it.
A petition of more than 1,200 signatures will be sent to the ACT Government’s Legislative Assembly opposing the proposal for a retirement village on the southern end of the golf course, in a $20 million deal that golf club publicly admits will ensure its future.
In June, the ACT Government agreed to a final integrated plan for the Red Hill Nature Reserve and surrounding areas, which included Mbark’s 125-bed retirement village being built on the southern end of the 18-hole golf course and the reserve expanded.
The Plan still needs to be adopted by the Legislative Assembly, and the Territory Plan varied to change the lease to allow development on the golf course. Any development application would then have to go through the normal assessment process.
Mbark is a multiple winner of awards for their villages The Arbour in Berry, about 138km south of Sydney CBD, and Wivenhoe in Camden, 65km south-west of Sydney CBD
