Darnley is one of a select group of Melbourne’s leading home builders whose designs were selected to fit the comprehensive criteria of the Springthorpe estate guidelines. Darnley has introduced understated elegance and an air of substance and highly contemporary housing at this leading edge development. Located only 14 km north of Melbourne, Springthorpe is a 600 lot, multi award winning redevelopment in Macleod. A redevelopment of the former Mont Park hospital site, the original site’s sprawling botanic garden like grounds has been retained, with the landscape overseen by large mature trees and palms which would be prized even in traditional leafy suburbs.

 

Springthorpe has created a new genre in Australian housing. The homes themselves are modern, but retain the classic proportions and thorough resolution brought into dominance by Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin, which now define the modern era. The ‘Residents only’ country club concept, complete with pool and tennis courts and the community intranet, are now being widely copied. The residents own these facilities through a body corporate structure.

 

It has won a record number of national awards in it’s industry – The Urban Development Institute of Australia has awarded Springthorpe the much coveted National Awards for Excellence in Residential Development, Environment and Master Planned Communities.