Hilltops
View Full WidthSpiire is providing multidisciplinary services at a new residential community in Thurgoona, a growing suburb on the north-eastern edge of Albury.
Services
Civil Engineering Construction Consultancy Surveying and Spatial Urban Design Water Engineering
Client
Birchmore
Location
Thurgoona, NSW
An integrated project team of civil engineers, urban designers and surveyors assisted Birchmore through the due diligence and acquisition of the property at 710 Riverina Highway. The substantial site has the potential to contain approximately 450 lots, some of which will capture the views to nearby Lake Hume.
Our Urban Design team worked through a number of iterations to develop a concept plan that identified additional opportunities within the Thurgoona Wirlinga Precinct Structure Plan. Developed in conjunction with the local Civil Engineering team in our Albury office, the designs respond to the site’s constraints to find optimal solutions for both our clients and future residents.
This includes repositioning the neighbourhood park to a central point within the estate, in a hilltop position that will deliver flatter land for the open space and capture views of the water. Our team has worked together to maximise the number of residential lots that will share this sweeping outlook, while also aligning roads along the same line of sight where possible.
The lot mix has been carefully considered to respond to the housing choice relevant to the regional market, while also keeping in mind affordable, medium-density options.
Our in-house collaboration also underpinned designing a solution for protecting environmentally zoned land within the site, which will become open space in the future, and responding to the steep terrain.
Civil assets to support the future community include a large sewer pump station, with dual outlets and on site storage to facilitate early approval and a large wetland for the habitat of the endangered Sloanes froglet.
Construction consultancy specialists from our local office are now working with head contractor Winslow in the delivery phase of the first permit area, of approximately 177 lots. This first parcel includes the park located in Stage 1 and a wetland in Stage 2 designed by our Civil and Water Engineering teams. Development Consent for an additional 114 lots is anticipated in early 2026.
