In this edition, I wanted to share how important trees are to our resorts and the extensive effort our Architectural, Development, and Creative teams put into supporting our vision. Together, they work to create the best environment possible from day one, prioritising the natural beauty and ecological value of each location.

This focus was top of mind last week when I visited our under-construction resorts at Piara Waters and Henley Brook. Sadly, on both sides of these projects, neighbouring developers have stripped every tree from the land to create residential lots. While I understand that it’s not necessarily their intent to remove all the greenery, the standard practices they must follow, make it challenging to preserve trees.

When they divide the land into smaller parcels for individual homes, they need to install underground services, which requires a significant amount of fill to raise the levels of the land. Unfortunately, these steps are incompatible with keeping mature trees, making tree retention impractical from both an environmental and economic perspective.

In contrast, Providence Resorts remain on a single title, which allows us to take a more flexible approach. We act as the land’s custodian, delivering essential services like power, water, and sewer to every homeowner on the site. This unique approach gives us the freedom to implement a much more effective tree retention policy. By creatively planning our roads and utilities, we are able to preserve much of the existing landscape.

The mature trees within our resorts are invaluable for the shade they provide, the birdlife they attract, and the ambient social spaces they help create. Removing them would mean losing a vital part of what makes our resorts special, and it can take up to 20 years to restore that feeling of a naturally beautiful environment.

Next time you visit a Providence Resort, take a moment to appreciate the pocket parks, the lush vegetation, and the significant trees we’ve preserved during the development process to create an exceptional living environment for our homeowners. If you see areas with more houses than trees, that’s usually because there weren’t trees there to begin with. And notice, too, that we’ve placed trees in spots where they wouldn’t typically appear in a standard housing development— maintaining nature where you might least expect it.

Information in this article is true and correct as of December 2, 2024.