Minda Dunes

A draft master plan developed for Minda's Brighton campus in metropolitan Adelaide, which includes 144 commercial beachside apartments, has been released by Minda Incorporated. The Brighton retirement apartments, in a five storey block, are included in a $200 million plan that also features 69 retirement villas.

This development is proposed to be located on top of the last remaining privately owned remnant dune system along the Adelaide metropolitan coastline, a system that contains species of conservation significance, including species and plant communities found nowhere else on the metropolitan coast.

Although the front or forward sand dunes on the Minda land are protected from development, the secondary dunes, which contain the highest diversity of significant flora (some eight species) and are in the most intact state, are not protected.

Over a decade of community effort, including conservation groups, Minda volunteers, scientists and the state and local government, has been put into the site's protection, and local, state and national funding has been invested in the site for planning and onground works.

Should development proceed in the secondary dunes, the City of Holdfast Bay suggests that seven plants of conservation significance would essentially become locally extinct within the Minda sand dunes and two would become regionally extinct on the Adelaide metropolitan coastline.

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• Minda Dunes
• Mark Parnell MLC
• Australian Greens (SA)
• coastal management
• dunes