Providence Lifestyle Plots Fifth Over-50s Perth Community

Land lease community developer Providence Lifestyle has filed plans for its fifth over-50s project in Perth, targeting a rapidly developing hotspot in the city’s eastern corridor.

The developer wants to build 144 homes on a 7.3ha site beside the Neerigen Brook foreshore reserve at lots 45-47 Gray Road, Haynes, 35km south-east of the CBD.

Under the plan, the suburban waterway would be revegetated and landscaped as a central amenity for the development.

The Richard Hammond Architects-designed scheme, dubbed Providence Waterbrook Lifestyle Resort, includes a clubhouse with hall, lounge, gym, cinema, pool, spa and bowling green.

A workshop or “backyard shed” that was included in previously approved plans for the site has been incorporated into this application and would replace a citrus orchard on the site.

Providence Lifestyle’s plans for the site at the northern tip of Wungong Urban Redevelopment Area, a 1580ha state-government-led redevelopment initiative, are on exhibition until October 24.

▲ Map of the 144-home Providence Lifestyle project.

The locale, about 3km from the Armadale city centre, is expected to eventually have 16,000 homes. Stockland will develop 2600 of those as part of its Sienna Wood project. 

The latest precinct on Eleventh Road is on exhibition with Development WA until October 15 and includes a new primary school, parks, neighborhood centre and higher-density housing. 

The City of Armadale region is considered as traditionally affordable but is increasingly becoming out of reach for frontline workers, according to the Property Council of Australia. 

It was the top region for house price growth, up 31.6 per cent to a median value of $650,532 in Cotality results for the year to May 2024.

The rent for units increased 5.8 per cent and houses 5.1 per cent in the past quarter.

Despite this, it is still one of the top-30 most-affordable suburbs to rent in the city but vacancy is 0.6 and 1.6 per cent respectively.