Category Archives: Landscape

160+ street trees planted in Stages 4-5

Landscape Update – Nov 2023 LD Total successfully tendered to continue on the Stage 4 and 5 landscape and irrigation works, and has already completed street tree planting including 85 WA Peppermint Trees, 17 Pecan, 17 Crepe Myrtle and 43 Macadamia trees. Irrigation pump stations in each cluster are currently ...

Community management of the avocado orchard

We enjoyed another milestone in October when we held a little community event to hand over several rows of avocado trees to clusters 1A, 1B and 1C from the orchard in the wastewater irrigation zone. It was a fun and informative couple of hours where all who attended received a ...

Community gardens come into their own

Landscape Update – July 2023 After handover of Clusters 2A and 2B to their strata companies in March, residents have been busy planting their EUA vegie gardens and taking on landscaping maintenance responsibilities in the communal areas.   Clusters 3A and 3B community gardens achieved Practical Completion on 11 May and ...

Ecovillage wins two AILA Landscape Architecture Awards

The Witchcliffe Ecovillage was recognised with two Landscape Architecture awards at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA) WA Awards in Perth last week, winning the ‘Gardens’ category for our beautiful cluster community gardens and ‘Infrastructure’ for guidance on civil works and the creation of living streams. Senior Landscape Architect, ...

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 ...

Community takes over the gardens

Landscape Update – August 2022 The blustery, cold weather did nothing to dampen spirits for the milestone event at the Ecovillage earlier this month where key members of the WEV team officially handed over the three beautiful Stage 1 community gardens to their Strata Councils. Special thanks to Chad Elton ...

Orchards, trees and stonework

The landscape team has been working on Stages 4 and 5 in the office and the sales plans for Stage 4 are now live on our website. We learned a lot from the Stage 1 to 3 works and are very excited to see how the community gardens and landscaping ...

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. ...

Building and Landscaping Update – Dec 2021

Community Centre kicks off in the New Year The contract for the Community Centre has been let to Tate Construction which is mobilising to site prior to the Christmas break and will commence construction in earnest early in January. ...