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28 July 2009
Play spaces in the hills
Ann-maire Taplin, author of South Australian bestseller, Being Mummy, ranks Bluestone as number one play space in the hills.
27 July 2009
Bluestone – high standards, great location
Mount Barker is one of the fastest growing cities in Australia, and it’s not hard to see why the beautiful hills location, the fresh-air lifestyle, the well-established commercial precinct, the top-notch education and medical facilities, the easy drive to Adelaide, and countless other reasons.
17 June 2009
Sales strong as buyers flock to Bluestone
Buyers can now inspect the wide array of display homes at Bluestone Mt Barker after the opening of the $150 million residential project’s new sales and information office.
5 June 2009
Bluestone Mt Barker opens sales & display centre
The new Sales and Display Centre forms the entry point into the estate’s Display Village, which will feature over 30 homes from prominent South Australian Builders including Scott Salisbury and Hickinbotham Homes.
12 August 2008
Village spirit adds to joy of living
By: Matt Williams - Advertiser Newspapers
ADELAIDE Hills couple Mikyla and Ben Gilbert wouldn't have their lives any other way.
Living in a 160-year-old church at Nairne for the past nine years, the pair love the region they and 20-month-old daughter Macy Mae are proud to call home.
"We just love the lifestyle, the real sense of community in the area and the availability of services," Mrs Gilbert, 32, said.
8 December 2008
Fibre to the home brings new age technology to Bluestone
Bluestone Mt Barker is among an exclusive few residential developments in South Australia – and the first in the Adelaide Hills - connecting to Telstra Velocity™, Telstra’s fibre to the home network.
In short, fibre to home eliminates external antennas and satellite dishes around the exterior of the family home but ensures the full range of communications technology inside, including provision for future technology developments. Telstra Velocity offers superior performance to the best available ADSL2+ services today.
8 November 2008
Going further for more
RISING petrol prices have not yet cooled interest in Adelaide's outer suburbs.
Real Estate Institute data shows more than $16 million of land sold in Mawson Lakes last financial year, closely followed by land sales totalling $12.5 million in Mount Barker.
The institute's state president, Robin Turner, said buyer interest was still spilling out to the Adelaide fringe rather than building up the city.
8 December 2008
A first for the Adelaide Hills - Clean green gas to flow to Bluestone homes
It’s one of the best kept secrets in the Adelaide Hills and something Hills residents have never seen before - reticulated gas flowing into homes through the region’s biggest residential development.
Developers Walker Corporation and Day Corp are currently installing more than 3000 metres of gas piping to allotments across the first three stages of the Bluestone Mt Barker precinct enabling reticulated gas to flow to every new home developed across the clean and green project.
6 August 2008
Bluestone developers commit to massive landscaping program
Developers of the $150 million Bluestone Mt Barker project have committed $8 million to a vast landscaping program across the 95 hectare rural location.
DayCorp and Walker Corporation will fund a major plan to revegetate land across the Bluestone Mt Barker precinct with more than 30,000 shrubs, 900 mature trees, 2000 native plants and grasses.
The project will retain and protect 100 mature Redgum trees across the site despite heavy earthworks underway on the site as the developers prepare the land for residential living.
5 August 2008
Take a bough for a growing project
Mount Barker South Primary School found a way to make planting trees a complete experience for students in years 5 to 7. On National Schools Tree Day the students plnated more than 100 tress at a local residential estate called Bluestone.
30 July 2008
Green thumbs' tree-mendous effort
School students, residents, developers and council representatives have helped make the Hills a little greener by planting hundreds of trees and shrubs throughout the region to mark National Tree Day
17 December 2007
Strong interest in Bluestone development
The new Bluestone residential development has attracted strong support from the Mount Barker community with local families among the first to purchase land.
More than 400 people attended an open day earlier this month to view plans for the 835-lot master-planned development off Hurling Drive.
A major feature of Bluestone is the extensive landscaping and open space, with a range of large block sizes positioned to take advantage of the views.
14 November 2007
Mount Barker chosen for landmark residential development
One of Australia’s leading developers has confirmed his confidence in South Australia’s property market with a new residential development that raises the bar in modern sustainable living.
Lang Walker of Walker Corporation is teaming with local developer DayCorp Pty Ltd, headed by Dean Day, on a $150 million master-planned development at Mount Barker.
The 835 lot development, named Bluestone, has a major focus on the environment and quality lifestyle, with extensive parklands and landscaping in keeping with the Adelaide Hills.
10 April 2007
Bluestone Mt Barker Tree Safety
Press Release Issued by Walker Corporation / Daycorp
Developers of the new Bluestone master-planned residential development are removing 76 pine trees from the old Alexander Farm in Mount Barker because they pose a risk to personal safety.
A study by an independent arborist found the trees were old and in deteriorating health, and there is a moderate to high risk of them falling down. The report concluded the trees were inappropriate for a modern urban development.
