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Lots 2 - 14 are selling now.
All Lots are subject to a Land Management Agreement, which covers the requirements for water self-sustainability and to maintain the quality of the development. .
Land Management Agreement Explanation
Clinton Shores is a water self-sustainable development, the first to be passed by SA Water in South Australia, something we are rather proud of. Read ‘Residential Developer Magazine’ and you will realise that soon all developers will be required to have ecologically sustainable development.
To be sustainable, changes need to be made to the way things were done in the past. The Clinton Shores Land Management Agreement is simply a set of development conditions that need to be met to ensure sustainability and for the character of the development for all residents. We have tried not to make them constrictive – you can build any type of house without any time constraints. Following, are the main conditions with explanation:
Water Supply: To ensure that you will not run out of water during years of lower rainfall, a 200,000L water tank is required. This may seem a large tank, but we have compensated by still retaining the Lots at 900 square metres. By using a low profile tank of a height less than the division fencing, the tanks will not be visible at ground level. Each allotment has a ‘zone’ in which the tank has to be placed, this is to ensure that other buildings on other Lots do not cause rain or sun shading to the water tank area, as the tank also collects water. Tank roofs are structural, and are, therefore, an ideal area to place solar hot water and electricity panels as they can always be faced true North, ensuring maximum efficiency, irrespective of your home design. The area of the tank roof is adequate to provide solar energy for complete home supply if you wish. Low height mounting of the panels makes service less expensive, and creates a pleasing roof line to your home by removal of solar panels.
The minimum combined area of tank roof and home roof of 375 square metres is to ensure that you will have adequate roof area for rain collection.
Rain water is completely safe to drink, however common sense requires the use of adequate filtration.
A Programmable Logic Controller, simply a very small computer unit, is required to inform you of your water use without you ever having to make any calculations. It helps you to ensure that you use water within sustainable limits.
Effluent Water Treatment: The use of an aerobic treatment unit, ensures that you can reuse the water to create a green garden and lawn year round, without being subjected to Government water restrictions. There is a ‘zone’ within the front 8 metre offset of each Lot where the aerobic unit is to be placed (the Council does not allow any building in this zone anyway). This is to ensure that it can be serviced without the service company having to enter your private premises. We have specified a particular brand of unit to ensure that all aerobic units used in the development are of the same manufacturer, as we will have in place a ‘development’ based service agreement that will minimise any service costs.
Fire Protection: The water take off of your water tank always ensures that you will have a minimum of 20,000L of water for fire fighting. There is a CFS fire facility at Port Clinton, 1.4km away.
Fencing: All 1.8m high allotment boundary fencing is not to be taken past the 8 metre building offset line. The reason for requiring no high fencing forward of the 8 metre offset line is to ensure that the aerobic treatment units can be serviced without impediment, and to ensure that the aesthetics of the ‘garden-like’ design of the development is maintained. From front street level, the development design is to create a ‘park-like’ appearance by the use of developer provided landscaped footpaths, and the vegetation that you plant within your 8 metre offset. Dense shrubs and low trees can be used to create a ‘fence’ to your neighbors.
Allotment Use: The land management agreement requires that there be no individual garages or out buildings, and that all garages etc should be ‘under the main roof construction’. Why? Planning regulations require a minimum distance between any buildings and to where you can use irrigation from the aerobic treatment plant. There are also regulations requiring a minimum ‘open space’. The combined roof area of the water tank and home roof is 375 square metres, only 42% of the allotment area. However, if individual buildings existed, due to the now multiple minimum offsets required from each building, it would become difficult to retain adequate irrigation area for the aerobic treatment irrigation disposal. You can have any garage size you want, as long as it is ‘combined’ with your home, and the overall area of the building still provides for the minimum aerobic treatment disposal area required.
Landscaping: A height restriction of 3m for vegetation is to ensure that there is no rain or sun shading of water tank areas, and leaf ingress to water collection areas is minimised.
Artists perspective impression of Clinton Shores, at early development and vegetation planting stage. Note water tank areas, and lack of solar panels on home roof areas.
Thank you for considering to be part of our dream.