Consolidated Properties Group has filed an $800-million rezoning bid to transform one of the Tweed Coast’s last big growth sites.

The Brisbane developer wants to turn 78ha at Cudgera Creek near Pottsville into a 550-home village with a town centre, commercial space and a developer-funded wastewater plant.

It’s the group’s first major move on this stretch of coast in 25 years when it began work on Casuarina Beach, the $1.5 billion-township 10km north of the latest proposal.

Construction at Casuarina Beach started in 2000, grewing across more than 3.5km of beachfront land, delivering homes, apartments, retail and resort-style uses which helped turn the area into a higher-profile beachside market.

The Caldera proposal now before the Tweed Shire Council for land identified since 1991 as the Dunloe Park Urban Release Area.

CPG said it was the final land release area within Pottsville and one of just four remaining growth areas along the Tweed coastal strip.

Consolidated Properties chief executive and chairman Don O’Rorke is leading the project with Hutchinson Builders chairman Scott Hutchinson and Bureau Proberts urban designer Brian Toyota, the team behind Casuarina.

Pottsville’s coastal strip and creek mouth, with the Caldera site identified inland to the right of frame.

▲ Pottsville’s coastal strip and creek mouth, with the Caldera site outlined to the top right of frame.

Plans show a 13ha retail and commercial precinct at the centre of the project, ringed by housing.

A Coles supermarket would anchor 7000sq m of retail floorspace and 23 commercial lots, alongside dining, gym, wellness, childcare, medical and other services.

The proposal includes a developer-funded wastewater treatment plant, bringing a key piece of servicing infrastructure into the rezoning bid.

O’Rorke said CPG intended Caldera to be “very much for this region and for this time”.

“Our vision for Caldera is to create a modern coastal village with its own unique northern NSW identity,” he said.

“Building on our legacy of Casuarina, 25 years on, this new village is designed to stand apart, offering the future of modern living, balancing the natural beauty of the region with contemporary amenities and convenience.”

▲ Am aerial view across the Caldera site towards the Tweed Coast with Pottsville’s coastal strip visible in the distance.

Housing pressure is already running hard across the region.

The council said in February that rental vacancies were near 1 per cent, well below the 3 per cent benchmark for a healthy market, while median house prices had nearly doubled since 2019.

It said the housing shortage was “severe and worsening”.

CPG said Caldera would create more than 1500 jobs during its development cycle and help address a shortage of employment land in the Tweed.

Retail and services were pitched as a local centre rather than a stand-alone shopping play, with supermarket retail, dining, wellness, childcare, medical and other everyday uses planned for the core.

Dunloe Park also carries a long planning history.

Council planning identified Dunloe Park for future urban use in the 1991 Tweed Shire Residential Strategy, with later regional and local strategies carrying the land forward as a growth area.

An entry sketch of the proposed Caldera village at Cudgera Creek near Pottsville.

▲ An entry sketch of the proposed Caldera village near Pottsville.

Environmental controls sit alongside the housing and infrastructure offer.

CPG said Caldera would extend the existing koala corridor, create a koala underpass beneath Pottsville Road, expand native tree planting and build about 8km of exclusion fencing to protect the West Pottsville koala population.

Wetlands protection, parklands, village greens and communal grounds also form part of the proposal.

Caldera is a joint venture between Consolidated Properties Group and Pottsville Development Corporation Pty Ltd, a long-time Pottsville landholder linked to the Black Rocks By the Sea development and earlier rezoning moves in the area.

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