By ERWIN CHLANDA
The Brown family has been granted a change of zoning for their land at White Gums, in the south-western corner of the Alice Springs municipality, where they are planning a major residential and commercial subdivision.
Family member Steve Brown says after some 20 years of fighting for the approval, the family is over the moon: “It’s also a sign that the town is growing and that there is confidence in it.”
The plan is to create on 784 hectares “environmentally sustainable and integrated rural living, a community hub, senior’s lifestyle village with 80 dwellings for 162 residents in cottages in a valley with view of the ranges.
This approval is the first step, although a very big one,” says Mr Brown.
He says it clears the way for a development application to be made which will deal with the detailed design of the works.
The image shows the distance from the town centre. The number “1” marks the Ilparpa rural residential subdivision.