Live at Seaspray | Design Guidelines Overview

Seaspray's Design and Building Covenants will ensure that all homes built at Seaspray are individual, quality homes with designs that suit the tropical Capricorn Coast climate. The covenants set the standards that will protect Seaspray's unique natural environment as well as its built environment.

Key features of the covenants are included below. For further details, please refer to the full version of the covenants.

Building envelopes

In order to protect the sensitive surrounding environment, building envelopes, that designate allowable areas within each lot for constructing homes and other buildings, have been established at Seaspray.

The building envelope has been chosen to make the most of each allotment's aspect and topography.

Design

Seaspray Living Homes will be designed to create visual privacy to the roads and adjoining properties. Tropical architecture and the use of architectural treatments such as lightweight construction, glass louvres, high ceilings and timber joinery, balustrades, shutters and blinds will make the homes distinctive and visually appealing.

No two Seaspray homes will be the same although each home will blend with its surrounding environment and each will complement the other.

Construction time

To ensure that Seaspray becomes a community - one that integrates with the broad Capricorn Coast community - homes must be constructed at Seaspray within three years from the date of settlement.

Working with sloping blocks

Crucial to protecting the environment and ensuring your home becomes part of its surroundings is ensuring that Seaspray homes are designed to respond to the slopes of the land.

Where an allotment has an average slope of greater than 15%, lightweight framed housing, rather than slab on ground, is the preferred construction method.

Building materials and colours

Seaspray homes' tropical design will be achieved by using a mix of materials and by combining materials to create interest. Materials such as rendered masonry, painted fibre board and timber and plywood will create distinctive, lightweight, coastal homes.

Colours should be used to help Seaspray homes merge with their surroundings. By using natural colours including roof materials with low-reflectivity, Seaspray Living Homes will become part of the surrounding environment.

Roof pitches of 2.5 degrees or more are preferred and a minimum 600mm eaves overhang will assist with shading.