Category Archives: Building

What’s going on at Kyloring Housing Co-op?

By Eugenie Stockmann – Development Manager, Co-operation Housing Centrally located within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, Kyloring Housing Co-operative will be a pocket neighbourhood of shared facilities and 25 private homes, designed to promote a healthy lifestyle, accessibility, and social connections, for successful ageing in place. UPDATE: Members and explorers gathered in ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the Editor’s Desk

Taking stock, 13 years in It’s astonishing to look back at how much we’ve achieved since we put our first lot on the market a mere two and a half years ago, after more than 11 years in planning. Capturing a moment in time, here are some fun facts as ...

Byron Bay Affordable Housing Summit

Shelle and I recently had the great honour of being invited to Byron Bay by their Shire Council as the keynote speakers at its Affordable Housing Summit. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to visit the region and see our oldest daughter Amala, who’s been living and working there ...

From the Editor’s Desk – Commentary

Our last Village Collective newsletter was published in May on the eve of the Stage 4 sales ballot, which seems like a lifetime ago now. Despite what you might think, the WEV team has not gone to Exmouth on holiday like most Margaret River residents, nor have we been hibernating ...

Community Centre takes shape

Our delightful Jarrah-clad community sheds in Stages 1A, 1B and 1C are now complete. They look so good that we’ve had requests from some buyers as to whether they could live in them or use the plans to use for their own little homes! ...

Housing affordability and inflation

Whether you’re currently in the process of building a home, getting quotes for your proposed new home, or just reading and listening to the daily news cycle, you’re no doubt aware of the significant inflation associated with building a new home and the ever-increasing costs of living. ...