Topic - Developments

$7M 198-home land lease community approved for NSW Mid North Coast

Dec 10 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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An artist’s impression of the new community.

The Woodglen Lifestyle Estate will be built on Batar Creek Road at Kendall, 25km south of Port Macquarie, after the development was unanimously passed by Port Macquarie-Hastings Council’s Development Assessment Panel (DAP).

The Council had received 134 submissions and a signed petition against the original 280-home proposal, but after the number of homes was cut and the open spaces and landscaping increased, the panel gave the development the go-ahead.

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