People Purpose Place is excited to shine a spotlight on an inspiring member project from Christine Doan, investor and director of PPP. While this initiative is Christine’s own independent venture rather than a PPP project, it aligns beautifully with PPP’s mission of making housing accessible for everyone — and that’s exactly why we want to celebrate it.
Christine has secured the first development application approval in the Atherton Tablelands for a Chinese flat-pack house, priced at $115,000 for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom home. Cyclone certified and coming off the production line now, this is an exciting new approach to housing affordability on the Tablelands — and Christine will be documenting the entire journey from China to the site along the way.
Transcript
Hi everybody! I’m just going to let you in on a secret that is so obvious that it isn’t a secret – I can’t keep my mouth shut! [laughter] As soon as I’ve got some news, I want to blabber it all over the place. So what we’ve tried to do now is do a little teaser. I’m not really good at that.
So here’s the announcement, because I’ve been dying to announce this.
We have a new way of promoting affordability on the Tablelands, and it’s not a promise – it’s ready to go. I now have the first development application approval on the Tablelands for a… wait for it… Chinese flat pack house. That costs $115,000 for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, lounge and kitchen. You need to stick an extra veranda on it so it’s nice for the Tablelands. Extra cost.
You’ve got to build the rotten thing, because it comes like a Lego thing or an IKEA thing, and you have to figure out where to put which Allen key and which monkey wrench where. But that only doubles the price, maybe triples the price. It’s still cheap.
And these are cyclone certified. Imagine that – you get something off a production line out of China that’s cheap enough for Tablelands people to actually build, and it’s also cyclone rated. I’ve got the first DA on the Tablelands, and we’re ready to go.
That wonderful flat pack house – we hope it’s wonderful! This hasn’t been tried before. It’s coming off its production line in China now, and I will keep you posted on where it is, whether it’s come off the production line with my name and the Tablelands on it. Yes!
And we will follow its journey by sea here to Australia. We hope it’ll be here in three months, and we’ll be telling you all about how it works to put this thing together. I’ve got a builder who wants to go in this direction, we’ve got the backing of the people who organise these bits of accommodation that are cheaper than cheap compared to anything else you can build. And we’ll see where we go. Try something new. Thanks!
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