Care factor flies high at Villawood
A support scheme to help essential care workers such as nurses, emergency workers and personal carers into their homes has placed the spotlight on Villawood Properties.
Recipient of the latest UDIA SA Marketing Excellence Award, Villawood’s Care Worker Support Scheme provides $10,000 for teachers, paramedics, firefighters, nurses, police and other carers toward lot prices across its South Australian projects.
The scheme has assisted some 60 essential care workers buy their homes in Villawood communities at Oakden Rise, St Andrews at Andrews Farm and William Lakes in Gawler, since introduced by Villawood three years ago.
Villawood believes care workers are powerful contributors to the community, who make great neighbours and friends. Care worker residents also help bring an air of security to Villawood’s communities.
Villawood Properties CEO Alan Miller thanked the UDIA judges for acknowledging the work that went into the care worker program and its marketing.
“Care workers are the backbone of our communities,” Miller said.
“This is about acknowledging the crucial role care workers play in caring for the community. We need them and they need to be able to live where they work.
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“This program is aimed squarely at helping achieve that. It’s provided a mechanism to ensure they can live close to work and in a thriving, positive community.
“This is a further initiative of Villawood supporting local families to gain access to homes in a market where it can be difficult to access. Villawood has always been about building and safeguarding its communities. This is part of that imperative.”
This UDIA gong underscores a driving ambition by Villawood to lead the industry with elevated levels of community engagement, sustainability, urban design, built product and affordability.
Its latest project, for instance, at Aldinga in a joint venture with Renewal SA, will shatter the mould on new residential sustainability and affordability with a stunning net zero carbon project.
The 800-lot Aldinga will deliver the net zero carbon community via a range of energy-saving initiatives from gas-free, solar and lot orientation to heat pumps, batteries and microgrids.
The project will feature diverse housing options with at least 25 per cent affordable housing, including architect-designed homes, and mandated sustainable building materials sympathetic to the area.
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Aldinga will also host an exclusive, high-end resort-style residents’ club including a pool, gym and café – a Villawood signature with more UDIA kudos interstate.
In addition, extensive open space, parks, reserves and attractive chain-of-ponds corridors will be complemented by extensive green canopy and biodiversity offsets that will see over 40 hectares of land donated for conservation.
“This is seriously ground-breaking for South Australia and it’s blazing a new path for mainstream sustainable housing and premium affordability for the entire country,” said Miller.
“We haven’t seen all the elements of cost, design, sustainability, social connection and quality come together like this before in any mainstream housing project in Australia.”
Aldinga is the sixth major project by Villawood since its arrival in South Australia in late 2022. It is its second partnership with Renewal SA alongside its 1500-lot Oakden Rise joint venture.
Oakden Rise is also home to the newly announced Good Home initiative supporting the SA Kids Appeal. This further underscores Villawood’s philanthropic history and its commitment to, and focus on, community and giving back.
Villawood has also partnered with the South Australian Jockey Club and superannuation giant Hostplus for a $300 million revamp of the historic Morphettville Racecourse.
Other projects include the high-end Seacliff Village with the Gasparin and Brazzale Groups, as well as the 1700-lot William Lakes at Gawler and 700-lot St Andrews at Andrews Farm in the city’s north.
Miller said Villawood’s experience and reputation for building innovative new communities had underpinned its success in South Australia.
“We’re constantly seeking out better ways of creating new communities,” he said.
“We look at everything – urban design, new technologies, community engagement, sustainability, resources, built product, affordability, giving back.
“The bottom line is about making people happy. That’s what we do and what we deliver.”
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