THE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
Planning for the project has been protracted, with the city adopting an amendment for the site to allow an aged care facility as far back as 2015. Speaking on behalf of four residents who agreed to buy homes in the development, subject to approval, Corina Johnson read a letter from two of them. “We acknowledge there will always be resistance to change, evidenced by some of the deputations today, but the hills community have waited so long that many have had to move elsewhere, or have passed away waiting,” the letter said. After approval was granted, Providence Lifestyle Group managing director John Wood said site works for the $190-million project would start in coming months. “With high demand for housing in Perth, and strong interest from our early market testing from locals in and around the foothills, this development will provide 190
architecturally-designed homes in a thoughtful next generation community for active over 50s,” he said. The village is planned to include one, two and three- bedroom homes with solar panels and battery storage. A clubhouse, bowling green, sauna, dance floor, gym, vegetable garden, workshop, cinema, music room, indoor heated pool and pickleball courts are also on the cards. Providence operates villages at Piara Waters in Perth’s south-east, Henley Brook in the city’s Swan Valley wine region and in the retirement Mecca of Mandurah south of the WA capital.
A state MP and other advocates spoke in support of Providence’s project at Wattle Grove.
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