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Walker Corporation pushes ahead with project to build new suburb at Buckland Park
A project to create 12,000 homes in Adelaide’s northern outskirts will drive unnecessary urban sprawl, according to the SA Greens — but the billionaire developer behind it says it will help improve housing affordability at a time of record prices.
Key points:
- The $3 billion project will involve the construction of 12,000 homes
- The developer says it will open up affordable housing on Adelaide’s northern fringe
- The Greens say the project is in a flood-prone area
After more than a decade of planning, work is now going ahead on the Walker Corporation’s Buckland Park project near the towns of Virginia and Angle Vale and their surrounding market gardening communities.
The corporation said the $3 billion project, called Riverlea, would create the…
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