Mentone Heights — 156 Balcombe Road, Mentone — has reached Foundation Complete. It’s a $13.5 million development combining residential townhouses and Specialist Disability Accommodation on a single address, next door to the Mentone Mews SDA project.
One address. Two housing types.
The Australian residential development playbook usually treats SDA as either a specialist standalone building or a token inclusion. Mentone Heights treats it as neither. Residential townhouses and SDA share the same site, the same materials palette, the same landscape approach and the same street frontage.
That decision starts with the site plan. Where do the SDA apartments sit? How do they access parking? What do they overlook? Are the accessible pathways shared with the wider community or separated? Every one of those questions has to be answered before the foundations go down. At Mentone Heights, they were.
What Foundation Complete means for this project
For a mixed-typology building, foundations are the milestone where the site design becomes physical. The bearing capacity, drainage, and slab specifications differ between the SDA and residential portions — and those differences have now been resolved. Vertical construction can begin.
Integration isn’t proximity. It’s shared design DNA.
Why we build this way
The Care portfolio includes four active projects — Mentone Mews, Mentone Heights, Ashburton SDA, and Nexus Life Shepparton. Each one carries the same design principle: SDA and adjacent housing are designed together, from the site plan out. Not one after the other, and not one hidden behind the other.
Contact
Enquiries about SDA occupancy or residential townhouse interest at Mentone Heights should be directed to the Nexus Care team via info@nexusdevelopments.com.au.
Nexus Developments — Melbourne multi-sector property development.
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