Onkaparinga Heights - Town Plan

Urban areas are an important part of modern life with 87% of Australia’s population of more than 27 million people choosing to live in urban areas. At the same time, cities provide an important home for plants and animals with 30% of Australia’s threatened species living in urban areas. But cities are also a major threat to biodiversity as vegetation is cleared for development, resulting in habitat loss and fragmentation.

Urban Planning and Design Principles

Our town plan for the Onkaparinga Heights Masterplan follows Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design. Using the Landsberg values on a large scale, this concept suburb in South Australia prioritises the non-human inhabitants of our landscapes to cohabitate with us in our green spaces, parks, back yards and stormwater systems. Through Water sensitive and biodiversity sensitive urban design this development strives to fulfil Green Adelaide’s key priorities including growth in nature education and connection for communities whilst integrating into the surrounding National Park.

Onkaparinga Heights has been developed to provide clear guidance on how developers of the proposed urban residential area can incorporate options to protect and conserve existing biodiversity values, enhance and restore ecological communities and processes, and minimise impacts to plants, animals, ecology and the environment whilst providing health, wellbeing, amenity, recreational, cooling and place-making value to the residents of the development and the surrounding community.