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A NEW child care centre with capacity for 154 kids has been approved in a residential estate in the booming Ripley Valley and another could also be built next door.
Ipswich City Council has given the green light to construct the two-storey facility in the Ecco Ripley estate with a large number of families moving to the city’s rapidly growing south east pocket.
It will be built on land at 1 Brooking Rise, Ripley and will operate from 6.30am to 7pm. Ink Developments Pty Ltd submitted a development application to the council in October.
Another child care centre with places for 162 kids has been proposed for 2 Brooking Rise with an application submitted in August, but a decision has yet to be made by the council.
Sekisui House Australia have this week launched Shavida, their new home building brand that extends the value’s of the developer’s approach to design and construction.
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The extraordinary speed of residential construction on Ipswichâs southern outskirts is something that has to be seen to be believed.
In only a few years, open spaces once occupied by paddocks, livestock, bushland and the occasional house has been completely transformed into a type of high-density suburban development never seen in this part of the world.
In estates like Ecco Ripley, 300 sqm is now all developers need to accommodate a family home, and Sekisui House has been churning out hundreds of them.
The Japanese home builder has already put 700 new houses into the Ecco Ripley estate, and this week announced its new Shavida brand with the unveiling of four new display homes.