‘Smart’ Park, 100 More Homes Planned for SA’s Copper Coast

A masterplanned South Australian community is to undergo a major expansion adding more than 100 homes—and a ‘smart’ playground.

The plans also include a retirement village with gated community, medical rooms and childcare centre.

Work on 115 new homes at Kadina Central, 150km north of Adelaide on the Yorke Peninsular, is expected to begin in April next year.

The project approved by the Copper Coast Council is being undertaken by SA developers Leipzig Australia.

Central to the expansions is a “smart park” that will include smart-places technology, including wireless device charging on benches, public Wi-Fi, and bins that notify the council when they’re full. Parkland will comprise 30 per cent of the site.

The developer has also filed plans for a 14-home retirement village comprising six single-storey residential duplexes of up to three bedrooms, two group homes and carparking, as well as a 1000sq m medical centre with five tenancies, a gated community of nine specialised homes for people with disabilities, and a 112-place childcare centre.

▲ A render of part of the retirement village and childcare additions to Kadina Central.

Developer Leipzig is close to completing its Angle Vale Innovation Project, comprising 17 industrial allotments.

It is part of its 104ha, 1300-home self-sufficient development and a 400ha circular green economy precinct on rural land near Dublin, 60km north of the Adelaide CBD.

Eventually to be home to about 3200 people under a proposed land rezoning, the plan includes a bioreactor in the industrial estate to create power for the precinct.