Riverlee and Helia EHS: 2023 Finalist – Sustainable places
Riverlee and Helia EHS is a finalist for an Industry Leader award in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Sustainable places category. In 2015, Riverlee
acquired a 51-hectare site in Epping, now known as New Epping. Formerly a quarry, then a landfill, Riverlee engaged Helia EHS to conduct environmental due diligence. Its plan was to turn the site into a true mixed-use community and set a new standard for regeneration.
Now 151 affordable apartments are complete, and the 126-bed Northern Private Hospital is due for completion this year. Riverlee also continues to work with ecologists, landscape architects, and engineers to design the future habitat of the local growling grass frog, comprising 10 waterbodies near Edgars Creek, and the planting of 200,000 plants.
In February 2023, the development plan for the $2 billion mixed-use community was approved, marking the start of a world-leading urban renewal and regeneration story.
