News & Events

Stage 4 guided walking sales tours commence

Now that the civil works on Stage 4 are sufficiently progressed to allow us to walk safely on the fully formed roads, we are excited to be able to offer guided walking site tours of Stage 4 on Sunday mornings. ...

Ecovillager profile: My Return to Margaret River

It was 1983 and I was just 21 years old when I first fell in love with the Margaret River region. I’d just completed my summer holidays after finishing three years of teaching study and was told to be in Margaret River by the start of the second school week. ...

12 resident households and counting…

We now have 60 homes under construction, 12 completed homes, 10 different builders and plenty of trades creating a buzzing hive of activity.  ...

Cultivating your green thumb, Ecovillage-style

Garden Update – March 2022 It’s early days but the first veggie patches are starting to pop up around the Ecovillage and they are already adding life and colour to the site. The last few months have been particularly hot and dry and it sure makes one appreciate having a ...

From paddocks, roads appear

Civil construction of Stages 4 and 5 is well underway as you can see in our Stage 4 drone video. Earthworks are substantially progressed and installation of services like sewer and stormwater is currently underway. These will be followed by power services, retaining walls and road works. ...

Community garden landscaping underway

Landscape contractor LD Total is well underway with work in the community gardens of Stages 1-2 with trees, shrubs, lawn, reticulation, orchard infrastructure, fruit trees, play equipment, fire pits and stone walls all on the agenda for the next 4-5 months. ...

From the Editor’s Desk: Sales Update – Mar 2022

Sustainable Settlements is a small team of professionals which is working really hard to deliver major milestones across many areas of this complex and unique development within a challenging, dynamic market. ...

Stage 4 launch postponed until Apr-May

I don’t need to remind anyone living in WA at the moment that our world is subject to constant change. However, it is still with disappointment that we have made the difficult decision to postpone the sales launch of Stage 4 to late April 2022, a month later than previously ...

Ecovillage End of Year Wrap-up

What a MASSIVE year it’s been for the Witchcliffe Ecovillage: dynamic, challenging, busy and incredibly rewarding. ...