Hi all, I have been using this website for a few months now and loving the handy and helpful posts that are contributed! We're just patiently waiting for our little slice of land to be ready so we can start building in Pakenham. Is anyone else is building in Worthington Estate?

We are buiding in the Worthington Estate as well with Porter Davis. We hope to move in Monday fortnight.

Also building in Worthington. Just awating developer approval. Hope to see the promised park land/green areas developed soonish as well.

My Wife and I are also building in Worthington
We put a desposit down on a block of land in Nov 2010 and were promised titles by April 2011
It is now Sept 2011 and we are now being told titles by Jan - Feb 2012
The wait has been brutal as we signed a contract with Porter Davis in Jan 2011..

Hi all, we too bought a block at Worthington in stage 3, and signed our builders contract nearly twelve months ago. It's getting close though, they've been working to catch up and should be soon now. Fingers crossed, we're starting to get a little excited. And we also hope for some good parkland too.....

Sound like we'll be neighbours! Went out and had a look today - good to see street lights but still hanging out for sealed roads.. hopefully they stick to the feb/mar deadline..
It's so hard to be patient!

For all we know we could be living next door!! It's all very exciting. We did our drive by on the weekend (we do one a week!) and the driveways and footpaths are being started. Yey!!

You drive by once a week? You'll have to keep us updated then With hubby's cricket I can't always convince him to go for a look.
We did however go last week and there were trucks dropping off asphalt(?) and getting the roads ready. The footpath and driveway at our place has been poured- woohoo! Our builder went for a look and sent off the soil test - I'm loving all this progress!

It's almost feb

Finally started building late Nov, and have progressed to plastering! Very ready to move in now. We do keep an eye on the progress (every week as well )

Sometimes more than once a week! Do you think that's a bit obsessive?! LOL It can't be too far off now, they don't have that much left to do. Will head by on the weekend and report back I can't wait much longer.....

This must be much more exciting for you now that your building has progressed So much further ahead of us
stage 3ers!

Ha! I love it! Definately do report back - I'd love to know if the roads are sealed. On my blog I've got all our progress photos and stuff - its amazing to see the progress - even if it has taken forever!! I only had a look over the full plan and the parkland isn't developed until stage 5 - poop! I thought it was in stage 4!

Spoke to the developer today, says end of March for settlement (which we kinda already figured), paving bricks for the road intersections have been laid and asphalt to go down, he says the water needs to come from Stage 4 which has almost been completed but there is some water meter testing to be done....so hopefully soon. We've had to get our finance reapproved....again....third time!

End of March sounds fine with me.. they said Feb/Mar so I'm happy if they just stick to that
It's great having someone to 'spy' on the estate and call developer other than me! We're in the process of our third finance again too! Third time lucky?

Hi all! I just had a chat with my builder today and he reckons the estate hasn't registered (I could be using the wrong terminology so don't quote me...) with South East Water yet so the engineering can't be finalised?? Anyone else heard anything similar? I called George from W.E. earlier in the week and left a message but no answer again. Oh and South East water said it will take 'a month or more' to get things organised??
Again don't quote me - just thought I'd put it out there and see what you guys have heard.. I knew I shouldn't have got my hopes up that this would be land settlement month!

If the estate hasn't registered then the other stages wouldn't have settled yet? Is he just referring to s3? I know the developer did say the water for 3 was coming from 4 and that they were doing some meter testing, I might give him a call again. Don't pin your hopes on George calling you back, I've called him before and not had returned calls and he doesn't give the impression he's in the loop as to what's going on. That's disappointing if it's all true, we were really hoping for the end of the month The asphalt is soon to go down as far as we can see but they haven't done anything with the 4 blocks at the cnr of Hamish and Thewlis, that's still dirt. It's just getting too close but still too far away

Sorry - yes I meant stage three! You can see on South Easts website that 1 and 2 are registered.. (http://www.sewl.com.au/property/Propert ... ngton.aspx) My hubby went for a look today after chatting to the builder and said there's asphalt down along villella We're on the corner so that's a bit exciting..
It was a bit disappointing - I thought I could finally start the count down and sign all the papers and be ready to go - but no another delay. Very frustrating! Hope all of your building plans are going well neighbour! We'll have to stay positive - maybe the developer will surprise us?!

Oh yes, I see what you mean Sounds like your builder is right on the ball too, ours won't even do the second soil test! They say they need access to the site, I could go and stand on our block every day if I wanted so not sure what that's about. We're all signed and ready to go, have been for ages. Just waiting on settlement. We're starting to buy some new furniture so that at least keeps things exciting. I think you'll be keeping us updated as to progress. Yes, stay positive, stay positive, stay positive.......

Hi All,

Great to see other people on here building at Worthington and sharing our frustrations at stage 3 delays!!

We have also been told end of march settlement so hopefully it all comes together by the date they have promised..

My wife is visiting the estate a couple of times a week as she works in the area and says things are close.

We have purchased one of the blocks of land on the corner of hamish ave/thewlis rd and I know why that little area isn't up to the same completion level as the rest of the stage 3.

The developers were unable to get the proper approval to join hamish ave to thewlis rd so that road will now be a court/dead end. There will not be full bitamen in front of those blocks but a driveway like setup.

Apparently they will start working on it once the roads in the rest of the stage are complete.

Please keep the updates/information coming!!