Roberts Day
corymbia woods queensland, australia
Corymbia Woods is widely regarded as the benchmark for achieving next practice in neighbourhood master planning in the region’s Western Growth Corridor, especially in the emerging city nearby at Ripley Valley.
Roberts Day led a Planning and Design Forum that broke the stalemate with Ipswich City Council on environmental issues which had marred a previous proposal. A fresh and collegiate approach enabled officers to participate in outcome-driven processes, satisfy their technical requirements and make a valuable contribution to a collective vision for the site.
Compacting arbitrary environmental corridor widths, converting sub-arterial roads to tree-lined boulevards and introducing a diversity of affordable housing products are just some of the victories that have been achieved towards enhancing liveability.
Flexibility and certainty define the approved master plan and form-based codes, ensuring that Corymbia Woods’ ground-breaking wins can carry through to market-driven realities as the project is built over a 10-year period.
By creating a vision of lasting value, the commercial capacity of our client’s site has increased tenfold and its residential yield, almost quadrupled.