The design celebrates the site’s existing bushland hillside character through streets and building forms built along the contours and arranged to retain the site’s most significant trees. The masterplan repairs and reconnects the fragmented ecosystem using green infrastructure to create a biodiversity corridor between existing wildlife protection areas of Vineyard Creek Reserve and Ponds Creek Reserve.

A stepped sequence of accessible open spaces organised around a new pedestrian oriented civic spine not only connects the station to the creek and celebrates the site’s existing trees, but also improves permeability, ensuring an accessible journey for all and connecting people to transport, retail and public destinations.

The new town centre‘s range of community facilities include a retail precinct featuring supermarkets, food and beverage and speciality retail, as well as a community centre, library, childcare, and a combined church, residential aged care and independent living units.