News & Events

Community gardens and southern entry

Landscape & Civil Update – April 2023 The WEV landscape team handed over the Cluster 2A and 2B community gardens to their communities at the inaugural AGM of their Strata Councils in March. With all the landscape and infrastructure work now completed in these two clusters and the tally of ...

The Green Iguana

One of the most important parts of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage development is its sewerage treatment plant, or water recovery facility project, as it is described by its licensed operator, Tony Johansen of TMC Witchcliffe. Without this, WEV simply would not be able to achieve housing density in the Ecovillage, which ...

A strong food growing culture

Garden Update – April 2023 It’s still early days, but already, a strong food growing culture is well and truly emerging at the Ecovillage. Gardens are popping up everywhere as new residents get their EUAs (Exclusive Use Areas) underway. It is a joy to behold the ever-changing vegie patches, in ...

Ecovillage welcomes the Webb family

When Michelle and I started the journey of exploring the potential for building an ecovillage in Witchcliffe we consulted extensively with the local community. We made it very clear from the outset that we had no intention of proceeding with the extensive planning process to rezone the land unless there was ...

Loving and learning at the Ecovillage

By Alex Jolly and Georgie Holbeche, residents of Cluster 1B It was while camping at Mike and Michelle’s place in Margaret River in Jan 2017 after a concert that we first heard of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Mike and Michelle had an amazing property and over the weekend we had the ...

Redink Homes Southwest joins the Ecovillage

We are delighted to announce that Redink Homes Southwest is joining the Ecovillage guild of builders, commencing immediately. Redink is a large project home building company with a substantial presence in the South West. This new offering is a welcome addition to the Ecovillage, giving buyers access to a company ...

Civils nearly complete, landscape rolls on

Southern entrance all that remains of civil works Practical Completion on Stage 5B was achieved on 1 December and the roads to Stage 4 and 5 are now fully open for public access. Civil works on the Southern Bussell Highway Intersection is all that remains now as part of the ...

WEV office moves to the Community Centre

The WEV team is so excited to have moved our office into the bright and shiny new Ecovillage Community Centre a few days ago. We’ve spent many years swallowing the irony of designing passive solar, thermally efficient homes while sitting on heated blankets and shivering in the perpetual cold and ...

Building Update – Dec 2022

We’re so thrilled with the quality and diversity of homes being built in the Ecovillage to date. Homes are predominantly being built from timber, straw bale, reverse brick veneer and hempcrete (apparently the most hempcrete homes in one suburb in the Southern Hemisphere, and soon to be the world). They’re ...