Healthcare & Aged CareHarrison CaithnessMon 17 Aug 26
Central Coast Aged Care Provider Plots $73m Campus Expansion
Aged care provider Peninsula Village wants to expand its Umina Beach campus on the NSW Central Coast with a three-storey facility.
The 131-room block would be developed at a cost of more than $73 million and is expected to create 49 jobs.
The 7075sq m site at at 86-102 Pozieres Avenue is 15km south of Gosford on Ku-ring-gai land.
Newcastle firm CKDS Architecture would design the new facility.
No new carparks would be built on site, but 34 staff and visitor spaces would be made available within the campus in a proposed common car park. An ambulance bay would be provided for the new facility.
Seven free-standing homes would be demolished to make way for the proposed expansion.
The facility’s ground floor would be built to be suitable for dementia patients in the future and 12 oxygen tanks would be stored on site outside the building.
A gate would be installed at Pozieres Avenue on the campus’ west side.
Existing buildings on the campus, which provides 24-hour care, are no higher than three storeys.
Peninsula Village operates two other retirement villages—another at Umina Beach and a facility about an hour north at Morisset Park.
Its most recent to open on campus was the 114-unit Pozieres House in 2017.
There are 301 units between the neighbouring Pozieres, Pam Palmer and Don Leggett Houses, ranging in care levels from low-care to dementia and palliative.
The federal government and peak bodies have warned of a supply gap in residential aged care construction.
The Central Coast Regional Plan 2041 forecasted the number of residents aged 80 and over would double in two decades.
National peak body Ageing Australia projected an additional 10,000 beds would be needed annually to meet residential aged care demand for the next two decades.
Audit-consultant KPMG reported no new residential aged care providers entered the market in the 2025 financial year, citing “high capital and construction costs”.
