The flagship brand, Thompson Sustainable Homes, remains a leader in the construction of terrace homes in Queensland. Their experience in the sector is vast, and includes: large scale development estates (often known as Greenfield), Department of Housing projects, and small lot infill projects for private developers. Over the years, they have delivered projects both large and small. On the Sunshine Coast – where they were one of the first builders building them – they have built terrace homes on lots as little as 54 square metres. Terrace homes are homes that are built to both boundaries of a lot, and they typically run in a number of three-to-10 neighbouring terrace homes. They are ideal in infill areas, as well as for estates – according to Renita, newly-built estates are now where they do most of their work. “Typically, a greenfield estate will contact us and say ‘As part of our development in this estate we want to work with you to design a number of terrace homes on specific lots that have been approved in the Plan of Development.’ They would provide a tranche of three-to-12 lots. From there they actually design out a streetscape based on the lot sizes and frontages of that tranche, and then go to market with home and land packages.” “This type of development covers 60 per cent of our work,” says Renita. “The other 40 per cent is small lot subdivisions with independent developers that have land they are wishing to prepare development approvals on, or have DAs in place ready to go. Should the council code permit, we’ll build a profile of a terrace home package in that estate. Then we design it to suit the lot sizes, then go to market with packages based on that THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE AUSTRALIA
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