TAS: Claremont Golf Club plans for retirement village

Oct 14 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

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The latest golf club to consider a retirement village as a path to fiscal security is Claremont Golf Club in Tasmania. If plans are successful, 2ha of river frontage would be sold to a village developer to construct 70 retirement village residences.
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