Building a ‘smart’ community

An aerial view of the planned Windermere estate. Image: Supplied 222617_01

More than 215 properties with an estimated value of $70 million, including some residences aimed at first-home buyers, will be built in the Mambourin estate.

Developer Risland Australia has partnered with building company Tomorrow Homes to deliver the project across the next four years.

The properties will be located within the $1.6 billion Windermere estate on Greens Road, which is planned to include 5000 homes, retail and recreational precincts, four schools and 50 hectares of open spaces across 360 hectares.

Initially, Risland Australia and Tomorrow Homes plan to construct 15 residences ranging from three to four-bedroom homes, with prices from $354,900 to $480,000.

The houses, to be built as part of the Flora Residences project, will include internal herb gardens and Google smart home integrated systems featuring security cameras, carbon sensors and electric car chargers in the garage.

The chief executive of project marketing for Oliver Hume, Windermere estate’s sales and marketing agent, Julian Coppini, said first-home buyers represented more than 40 per cent of purchasers in the Windermere estate.

“Flora Residences is targeted at the first-home buyer demographic,” he said.

“The concept of building communities within a community is a new idea in Windermere estate.”

Mambourin developers are also working with Wyndham council to plan the Mambourin town centre, including a retail centre with 27,000 square metres of floor space, a supermarket, specialty stores, a cinema and green spaces.

Stage one plans for Mambourin, which feature a 5.4 hectare wetland and park, have been approved by the council.

In the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 census, just four residents were recorded as living in Mambourin.

This is expected to grow to about 3200 residents within the next six years.