Is anyone building at Mawson Green, Meadows SA?

Hi Mahalia, a community thread is a great idea!

My partner and I are building our first home with Metricon in stage 1 (Lot 44). Our land titles and settlement were delayed 6 months due to heavy rain over winter which held up the civil works.

Do you know when civil works will commence on stage 3? The estate will be lovely once it's all completed - going to be worth the wait.

Just as a bit of a heads up, our soil classification came back as "E-D" - apparently a lot of movement, a little reactive, and one of the worse classifications you can get. Maybe let your builder know early so they can include some more accurate footings estimates in your prelim plans.

How far have you gotten with your build process? Have you picked a builder or a floor plan yet? We spent a LONG time looking through display homes and brochures before finding the one we want...

Good luck with it all! Feel free to follow our build through our thread. Any questions, just let us know

Great you meet you too, this is also our first build so we share your excitement about this experience.

The house you mentioned is our neighbours, our build started last month and we have just completed our frame stage. Most of the lots in stage 1 are now under construction and some are now starting to receive handover. Civil construction commenced on stage 2 early last month but it doesn't look like anything has started on stage 3 yet. :/

Congratulations on selecting a builder! The Devine H&L packages look to be very well priced for the area. I'm slightly jealous you'll have four bedrooms and a study, hehe. Devine are very quick to get their homes up, there is one home out there that is already at brick stage after five weeks!

Keep us updated with your progress and good luck with your selections.

I'm sure a lot would have changed since your last visit. Stage 3 is still a paddock but it does look like the road will go down in stage 2 soon. I'll take some photos if I see some progress on stage 3 happen.

I don't know much about Saxon Hyde, I don't think Devine ever owned the land. It was sold by one of the neighbouring property owners. There are only 60 lots and most are 900sqm or larger so at least the area should maintain that nice open feel.

Good luck with your selections, I cannot wait to see what you come up with.

Hi Bailey! So happy to have you on board

How exciting that you'll most likely be in by Christmas - I'm just a little jealous!
More details please - who did you build with, which house plan etc etc....
Are you living close by or new to the town when your build is finished?

We are not far into the whole process and I don't know anything about the no security doors thing - seems a bit weird to say that you can't have one though?

@Lincoln29 - Looking at the Saxon Hyde website, they seem to have some commercial lots up for sale so I'm hoping there will eventually be a small supermarket or child care centre!

Do either of you have children? I'm not sure what the deal is with childcare and whether it's available at Meadows or if we will have to stick with the one we use now...

Hi Bailey, welcome to the forum. Your house looks great and you're so close to the finishing line. We aren't looking at taking handover until Feb/March. I think you may have met my partner through Facebook with your lovely pile of dirt you no longer need? :p

I'm not sure how they can enforce no security doors, I'm sure as long as the door didn't stand out it wouldn't be an issue..?


Sorry I'm not sure of any child care in Meadows, the kindy or primary school might be able to point you in the right direction. There was a rumour floating around that a Foodland or IGA might be built in the near future too.


Hi Chuckles,

We've had a look at a few different options - and what others in the estate have done - and have decided on a Pioneer GT60.

It's manufactured out of Zincalume Steel, so it has the level of bushfire resistance that council require - they won't allow a plastic or poly tank at all.

It has a 62,111L capacity. This means we can reserve the lower portion of the tank for Firefighting Purposes (5000L to suit the Ministers Code) and still have more than the required 45,000L storage capacity that the encumbrance guidelines say we need. It also means that we don't have to worry about having a separate tank for the 5000L.

A lot of other people have gone with 2 smaller tanks...but by the time the house is built, there's really not that much real estate left to use as a backyard. Even though this tank is a little bigger - 6m in diameter - it still leaves us with more of a backyard than 2 individual tanks would.

As far as water collection is concerned.....our house is 31 squares. Our tank supplier did a rough calculation and said that with our size roof, and Meadows average rainfall, we would have the ability to harvest around 200,000L per year - so I don't think we'll have any dramas there

Hi Jakki,

We're waiting on our block to be released in the Saxon Hyde section and a couple of weeks away from getting a contract from Rendition homes for the build.
Girl and a boy (4 and 2) here so looking forward to making use of the parks

Hi Jakki and chuckles

Are you both already living in Meadows? We are excited to get down there - we're looking for a rental near where we are at the moment (Aberfoyle park) until our build is finished. Wouldn't mind renting down there so we can keep a close eye on everything but there's just not much available!

Yay - more kiddies! We have a 2 year old boy so would love to meet some other with young children. Playgroup sounds great and we love the playground across the road!

Jakki - what block are you guys? We are 56 The Adelaide Mk II Alfresco was one our shortlist - I LOVE that plan!

Oh wow, neighbours! Small world indeed! We live just off Oakridge Road at the moment but have sold our house and are moving into a rental at Woodcroft in a couple of weeks. We should meet up sometime so we can chat/vent about how slooooow things are going down there 😉
Its so crap how far behind they are - when we first signed building was meant to start last october :/
When we last spoke to Ben he said we'd need a rental for 8-12 months, taking us through to next Feb?!
Apparenlty once the built starts it should happen pretty quickly but I'm not counting on anything!

So will you have to find a shorter term rental to get you through to the end of the build? I'll see if I can attach a plan of our house...

That's so far behind it's ridiculous!
I have no idea what we are going to do as they told us we would be in around July and it's impossible to get a rental for 2/3/4 months

I spoke to Ben a couple of weeks ago and he said the land is due for titles 'sometime in march but no date has been set yet' :/

I'm emailing our builder to find out how far off they will be ready to build as they can't do soil testing until the road is in. Yours will be faster as all that's already been done by Devine for you

Yes we should! I'm just off manning.

I'll try and work out how to add a photo, my phone memory is full so can't take one of the master plans but I have an older one on here

So we found out today it might be 5 months before our build can start- which falls in winter so I doubt it will start then. Not happy at all. No idea what we are going to do. Engineers report is atleast 8 weeks away then we can do colours etc then council is 10-12 weeks. So basically is might start around the time we were told it would be finished!