A $160 million “super seniors’ living” development has been proposed for East Maitland.
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The NSW Department of Planning is considering an application to develop about 40 hectares of land on Mount Vincent Road, near Wilton Drive, into a retirement village that could eventually include up to 450 units.
Developer Paul Unicomb said Hunter Grange Lifestyle Village would be a sister development to Walka Grange, which has almost been completed in Aberglasslyn.
Mr Unicomb said the development would be about three times larger than Walka Grange when all stages were finished.
“The Ashtonfield and Metford areas have been established for quite some time now and people in those areas are getting to the age of retirement,” he said.
“Walka Grange has been taken up fairly quickly and we’ve had a huge demand to proceed in Maitland.
“It’s going to be a super senior’s living village – it’ll have club houses and we’re looking at a nursing home facility.”
The Department of Planning is expected to make a ruling in the coming weeks.
The land will have to be rezoned before construction can begin.
Mr Unicomb said Walka Grange created about 70 jobs while the facility was being built.
He estimated that Hunter Grange could create as many as 150 jobs during construction.
There would be about 30 new jobs created when the facility had been built.
“We’re very keen to get a start on it,” he said.
“I think it’s good for the town – the demographics are perfect.”
