Riverlea (Buckland Park) | 12,000 dwellings | $3b

[Nort]

Just got an update from Riverlea, latest land release sold out in 10 minutes. Against the opinion of many on here, this estate is extremely popular. Looks like every release gets sold out. https://www.riverlea.com.au/for-sale/

Who said it wouldn't be popular?

Indeed many of the big issues are ones that will cause troubles not so much now, but decades down the road.

[ChillyPhilly]

Just got an update from Riverlea, latest land release sold out in 10 minutes. Against the opinion of many on here, this estate is extremely popular. Looks like every release gets sold out. https://www.riverlea.com.au/for-sale/

Who said it wouldn't be popular?

Indeed many of the big issues are ones that will cause troubles not so much now, but decades down the road.

This. Crappy developments like this are straight out of the 1960s and it is perplexing that it was ever given any form of serious consideration by any government.

[HiTouch]

Just got an update from Riverlea, latest land release sold out in 10 minutes. Against the opinion of many on here, this estate is extremely popular. Looks like every release gets sold out. https://www.riverlea.com.au/for-sale/

Who said it wouldn't be popular?

Indeed many of the big issues are ones that will cause troubles not so much now, but decades down the road.

This. Crappy developments like this are straight out of the 1960s and it is perplexing that it was ever given any form of serious consideration by any government.

Who cares about decades down the road? The riff raff have to go somewhere and it's not like we have Arkham Prison

[wilkiebarkid]

Latest aerial shot of progress.



Courtesy of Metromap

[Goodsy]

Latest aerial shot of progress.



Courtesy of Metromap

So in 10 years it's going to be the only set of traffic lights between Noarlunga and Port Augusta?

[ChillyPhilly]

They'd better be leaving a reserve for a train line...

[Nort]

They'd better be leaving a reserve for a train line...

By the time that comes around the developer will be long moved on and the government of the day can pay much more setting up transport options than if it had been prepared for from day one.

[bits]

What is difference in cost to:
reserve land for say a train line
vs
selling the land, getting stamp duty, rates, building goods and services GST to build house, income tax for companies building houses, personal tax for those employed to build houses, stamp duty again because the house got sold, more taxes for renovation works, more, stamp duty again, Then compulsory buy it back after say 30 years.

Really my question is just how much money does a used plot of land generate on average per decade in use?

[Goodsy]

They'd better be leaving a reserve for a train line...

When Port Wakefield road is eventually built into a freeway it should have a rail line down the middle just like Perth's Joondalup line

[ChillyPhilly]

They'd better be leaving a reserve for a train line...

When Port Wakefield road is eventually built into a freeway it should have a rail line down the middle just like Perth's Joondalup line

That can work, as could a branch from Salisbury to serve Salisbury North, Burton and the like (all of which are currently appalling public transit black holes).

[AG]

The traffic lights at the Port Wakefield Road junction were turned on today - such a disruption to the speed nature of the rest of the road.

[how good is he]

Hopefully these traffic lights are an interim measure and an overpass gets built in the [near] future. However very frustrating considering the billions we have/are spending along the route. Possibly they are waiting for the suburb to achieve critical mass and/or after the State Govt has made enough money from stamp duty from all the land sales to justify it. However that may still be 10 years+ away.

[ChillyPhilly]

Hopefully these traffic lights are an interim measure and an overpass gets built in the [near] future. However very frustrating considering the billions we have/are spending along the route. Possibly they are waiting for the suburb to achieve critical mass and/or after the State Govt has made enough money from stamp duty from all the land sales to justify it. However that may still be 10 years+ away.

It should have been a prerequisite of approval, along with a rail reserve.

[Goodsy]

there was a power outage Thursday afternoon affecting most of Two Wells/Virginia.. And the new traffic lights were out. There's going to be multiple fatalities at that intersection before they build an overpass.

[SBD]

there was a power outage Thursday afternoon affecting most of Two Wells/Virginia.. And the new traffic lights were out. There's going to be multiple fatalities at that intersection before they build an overpass.

That was the case before the traffic lights, too.

On Main North Road through the Playford area, enough people know the light cycles that they are followed even if the lights are out. Supposedly the day of the statewide blackout there were less prangs at traffic light intersections than usual!