Creating Harmony Between Nature and City at Ellendale

For over 30 years, Cedar Woods has been shaping attractive, responsive, and forward-thinking communities.

Our vision is to build sustainable spaces that cater to the needs of today and the requirements of tomorrow, minimising our environmental footprint to ensure the natural features and attractions of our developments remain unspoilt for generations to come.

One such example of our commitment to this vision is our Ellendale community.

Ellendale is a master-planned community spanning 227 hectares, located just 12 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD. Nestled at the foothills of the D’Aguilar Range, Ellendale was created to be a place where city meets nature in perfect harmony. 

Ellendale’s urban design nestles distinct neighbourhoods amongst existing topography, incorporating the rise and fall of the land as a feature rather than leveling the development across the site.  Our commitment to retaining existing vegetation and riparian corridors ensures we can help protect the area’s biodiversity, wildlife and habitat movement. This unique design approach, coupled with our extensive environmental planning, has resulted in a superior environmental outcome for the local community.

What makes Ellendale unique?

1.    Environmental Integration 

Ellendale seamlessly blends city living with natural surroundings. Residents will enjoy easy access to parks, landscaped green spaces, and tree-lined walking and cycle paths. The project spans 91 hectares of nature corridors and recreation space, improving biodiversity of the area and inviting residents to truly connect with nature.

Lot sizes within the development range from 300m2 to 26,000m2 (2.6ha), providing housing diversity and a mix of flat, split, and sloping lots. Premium homesites are nestled amongst undulating land, creating a leafy village-like feel that ensures the unique characteristics of Ellendale are reflected across all stages of development.

Cedar Woods has prioritised enhancing the natural fauna habitat including significant species such as koalas, squirrel gliders, possums and owls. Cedar Woods has established over 64 squirrel glider poles, 320 nesting boxes and 120 metres of fauna underpasses, complete with koala crawl bars, which have been installed under roads that cross the environmental corridors. The nesting boxes have reported recording Common Brushtail Possums, Squirrel Gliders and Antechinus species. 


2.    Green Space Commitment 

Cedar Woods has pledged to retain and restore 40 percent of the Ellendale site as green space with over $4.03 million to be spent on environmental rehabilitation over the life of the development. Rehabilitation works have included revegetation planting, translocation of significant plant species from development areas into rehabilitation areas and seed propagation from site to supplement existing vegetation.

Additional works include the execution of an extensive five-year planting program totalling 189,000 trees, shrubs, ground covers, and fauna connections, with 60 hectares dedicated to use of the Brisbane City Council.  Upon completion of the development the dedicated green spaces will be handed over to the Council to ensure ongoing upkeep and maintenance continues, resulting in a superior environmental outcome for the community for generations to come.  

3.    Nature Meets the City  

Ellendale is located just 12 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD and is bordered by natural bushlands to the West and residential communities with urban amenity to the East. 

Due to its diverse surrounds, Upper Kedron has become a popular destination for both young and mature families with approximately 90 percent of purchasers at Ellendale to date owner/occupiers, with a great referral rate amongst buyers.  

The area offers residents proximity to employment, public transport, medical, education, retail, social and recreational assets and provides convenient access to major road and rail connections into the CBD. 

Ellendale is a place where residents can enjoy the best of both worlds - the convenience of city living and the tranquillity of natural surroundings.

To find out more about harmony between nature and the city read the Ellendale case study.