the right place
“Mirvac has a proud history of large scale residential communities. This depth of experience provides opportunity to apply learnings from existing and past projects such as Everleigh, an emerging 3,300 home site community about 15 minutes’ drive north of Kindira, and Gainsborough Greens, a completed 2,200 homesite development an hour east, recipient of the prestigious Urban Development Institute of Australia Queensland Project of the Year.
“Planning for a project like this begins with deep consideration of the Mirvac pillars of legacy, customer, place and quality, looking at ways they can be applied in the local context. These pillars provide a solid foundation for decision making to ensure future residents are proud to call Kindira home.”
Mirvac has a wealth of place making experience in projects like Kindira that intersect with areas of environmental and cultural significance and sensitivity.
Project visioning, incrementally uncovered through stakeholder engagement and workshops, led to a deep understanding of the site and surrounds, reflected in four vision pillars of nature, community, character and engagement.
Nature recognises and celebrates the landform and environmental values of the site. Kindira will be nestled in nature with development sensitively interfacing with significant conservation areas to be retained on over 40 per cent of the site.
Picture a Queensland country town the size of Nambour, population around 20,000, and you’ll have some idea of the scope and scale of Mirvac’s future masterplanned community, Kindira in Monarch Glen, 50km south of Brisbane.
The schools, shopping centres, sporting fields and recreational spaces that form the heart of any small town are just as essential in new subdivisions such as Kindira, where approximately 7,300 home sites will be developed by Mirvac for around 20,000 people.
Monarch Glen falls within the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area, between the major employment centres of North Maclean and Bromelton. It is envisaged as a major regional activity centre with employment clusters and a residential population of around 138,000 people.
Communities of the size envisaged at Kindira do not spring up overnight and Mirvac has set a development timeframe spanning close to 30 years. The criticality of the project places a huge responsibility upon the developer to do it right, a truth not lost on Mirvac’s General Manager – Residential Development NSW & QLD, Warwick Bible.
“The decisions you make today are going to have a bearing on the future; this is the magnitude of a project of this nature,” says Mr Bible.
Community will focus on genuine connections amongst residents and community pride, established and supported through a comprehensive community development program. Character will align with the pillar of nature and create an attractive and unique feeling when you arrive at Kindira - like living in a national park.
Engagement recognises the importance of stakeholder relationships across all segments of the community. Respectful engagement with Traditional Owners is of particular significance to Kindira given the Indigenous history of the land.
The next step is all about the detail, applying the vision pillars to landscape character development, community programming and the look and feel of streetscapes and housing.
It’s an approach that has served Mirvac well over the years; putting people and place first and drawing on the lessons of past projects.
“This tried and tested approach is evident at Everleigh with 3,300 homesites where we applied the learnings from Gainsborough Greens and delivered amenity such as sporting fields and parklands tailored to local community needs,” says Mr Bible. “Now we have an opportunity to do it again at Kindira.
“Major projects like this require significant planning for infrastructure such as roads, water, sewer and power. However, it is critical we also focus on community and social infrastructure, the schools, parks, shops and gathering places that produce a connected, active, and proud community.
“We can achieve this by adhering to the residential pillars and project vision, demonstrating excellence in everything we do.”
‘The decisions you make today are going to have a bearing on the future; this is the magnitude of a project of this nature.’
WARWICK BIBLE
Mirvac General Manager
Residential Development NSW & QLD
‘The infrastructure and amenity will be delivered progressively as the population grows. The importance of parks, sports clubs and cafes as community activators is enormous.’
MARK CLANCY
Mirvac Development Director
It was during a Cook’s Patch working bee, alongside Assistant Community Development Manager Leanne O’Loughlin, that Melissa Healey found herself volunteering to start a book club.
Melissa and her husband Art had found their way back to Altona North after seven years living in Hobart and Launceston. Leanne was looking for new activities in the Cook’s Patch community kitchen when Melissa saw the chance to find others who shared her love of books.
“It was just a spur of the moment thing,” says Melissa. “I’d belonged to a book club in Launceston and Hobart, and was getting frustrated trying to find one in Melbourne that I liked and that didn’t involve traipsing across the city at night in the cold. I thought this is all too hard; I want it to be easy.”
As a long-serving executive assistant with the ABC, Melissa’s job is organising people, and making the book club happen was not so very different. Using The Fabric Community WhatsApp she sought interest from residents, and following an encouraging show of support gave them a list of 170 book titles that the local library provides in packs of 10 at no cost.
The group had their first get together in May and while still early days, it has the hallmarks of being another successful community venture at The Fabric.
“I only knew one of them which is hilarious because they all live really close by,” says Melissa. “The nice thing was the age group. We are all relatively similar, some a little older, some younger.
“It’s a nice demographic of people and I think it’s going to be a really good book club. We’re all professional people, we work, some are mums, and we can all walk to get here.”
Melissa’s great passion is books. Reading them, attending writers’ festivals and having a chance to talk about them amongst like-minded friends.
“Books are what I love; it’s my passion,” says Melissa. “Being able to chat over books with people who have similar likes, it becomes a bit of a girls’ club because it is generally women. But it’s more than books, it’s about friendship and developing connections within our own community.” ,/p>
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