The northern Gold Coast’s largest new home display centre is now open with 27 stunning designs on show at Stockland’s fast-growing Ormeau Ridge community.
The Ormeau Ridge Living Display Centre features the latest homes from some of Australia’s best known builders, as well as up-to-the-minute interior design trends.
Around 100 homes in the community are either complete or nearing completion after strong demand for land in early stages of Ormeau Ridge.
Ormeau Ridge is located in the heart of the northern Gold Coast growth corridor, offering a range of home sites in a lush green setting close to all services.
The Ormeau Ridge Living Display Centre will showcase 27 homes from 13 builders, including Metricon, GJ Gardner, Stylemaster, Ausbuild, Austart, Chelbrooke, Hallmark, Plantation, Perry and Urbanedge.
Stockland Regional Manager for the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, David Laner, said the Ormeau Ridge Living Display Centre would be the premier new home centre for the entire region.
“There is no better way to shop for new home than spending time in one of our living display centres,’’ Mr Laner said.
Besides the new homes under construction, work is now complete on a $1 million centrepiece park in Ormeau Ridge.
The hilltop adventure park features multi-purpose courts, cricket nets, basketball hoop, huge kick around area, an amazing adventure playground, and plenty of shaded picnic and BBQ areas.
Finally, construction has also started on a commercial hub for Ormeau Ridge, which will include a coffee shop, future child care centre and other retailers.
The commercial centre is located in the heart of the community close to the first home sites and within easy walking distance of the adventure park.
A huge community celebration will be held at Ormeau Ridge on Sunday, 4 December, to mark the opening of the Living Display Centre and the new Hilltop Park.
The free event runs from 11am to 2pm and offers a host of great family entertainment, including a magic show, carnival rides, treasure hunt, prizes and a free sausage sizzle.
Mr Laner said Ormeau Ridge offered quality affordable living for a wide range of people, including first home buyers and those upgrading their family home.
“Anyone building a new home at Ormeau Ridge could also be eligible for the $10,000 Queensland Building Boost if they sign a contract before the end of January.
“First home buyers may also be eligible for a double dip bonus of $17,000 from the government.’’
Stockland has fast-tracked the latest land release at Ormeau Ridge to meet growing demand for home sites in the community. Fixed price home and land packages start at only $359,000.
For more information, visit the Ormeau Ridge Sales and Information Centre off Upper Ormeau Road, call (07) 5546 6425 or go to www.stockland.com.au/ormeauridge.
Stunning designs they might be but look beyond the marketing hype of Stocklands and other large housing corporations and see how inappropriate the tiny blocks are for Ormeau – a semi rural area far from GC or Brisbane. Houses stand cheek by jowl with no back yards and ridiculously narrow streets. Hilltop adventure? Get real. A couple of slides, a sandpit and a “kick area” is normally called a playground! Affordable living? $359k is not value for money – especially if you have no back yard and only a tiny community tennis court for kids to kick a ball around in. Stocklands hype it up with sausage sizzles but in 5-10 years time the place simply will be one more bland housing development with no soul and Ormeau will cease to be a draw card for people wanting a slice of rural heaven with larger blocks. The “green” of the hills is already quickly being replaced by dense urban blocks or huge expanding gashes of quarry land because the government has no foresight to limit the destruction of valuable sensitive vegetation or habitat that is the very essence of Ormeau. Developers set the agenda in Ormeau, not the council, not the state government or even the Federal government. This has to stop before it is too late. The community has to take a more proactive stance and let developers know that they will not stand idly by while they reek havock and problems, make their profit and then move on to their next inappropriate development.
There is no better way to shop for new home than spending time in one of our living display centres,’’ Mr Laner said.
• But then look around the estate and see the poor workmanship in less a period of less than six months there are cracked footpaths all around the estate and it is still incomplete.
• Over grown areas full of weeds .What will this be like in the years to come.
• When you park a car on both sides of the road and there is no space for street access a recipe for property damage to residents cars as residents will need to park in the street with small block sizes .
I have to agree with Siggy. I never could find a suitable block in Jacobs Ridge as they were all just too small. I don’t know how homes were even built, as not a single plan I looked at would fit and all I was after was 4 bedrooms, a study and a theatre (note builders, media rooms are useless), smallest was 18.1m wide, which was too wide.
Now Ormeau Ridge, what 350-400m2 blocks are you kidding. My current ‘average’ sized house is that size and I’m looking elsewhere as it’s a little too small and I live by myself! There really must be some rule against allowing them to develop ‘blocks’ of land so small. This is Ormeau, Australia not downtown Japan. This has totally ruined such a beautiful area.
Everytime Stockland called for my feedback about buying land at Jacobs Ridge was the problem of the blocks being too small, now you’ve halved them yet again – insane (to Stockland and to what will occur to the people trying to live on such blocks)
Everybody needs a reality check. Ormeau is changing I’ve lived here for over 18 years first on pea hey road in my family home sitting on a 1/2 acre block n enjoying the freedoms of a massive yard but these days as a renter with my own young family just trying to find a place affordable enough in ormeau with appropriate parks and shopping development on the immediate horizon is near on impossible. I now rent in ormeau ridge and I have a bigish back yard ( I fit my swing set trampoline and cubbyhole house with ease inside it) the park is an excellent feature ( and my three kids love) the houses are made in hurry and workmanship is average but it’s big enough for us and most importantly affordable. For a long time people in Ormeau have had the perfect mix of rural lifestyle mixed with city benefits but times are changing and we need to face the reality that higher density housing is on the horizon populations grow and who wouldn’t want to live in Ormeau. As I write this sitting at my kitchen table I can see lush green mountains and beautiful paddocks, I can’t afford average but he’ll I got a good view from here.