A new home and a locked up spot for the caravan too

The security a gated community offers helped seal the deal for keen beach anglers Peter and Maureen Hines who will be living at Halcyon Promenade north of Brisbane.

The doting grandparents, who love to travel, bought in at stage one of the 59-acre Stockland’s Burpengary East development and hope to move in around June next year.

They are still in their 4-bedroom Kallangur home, just ten minutes down the road, and have recently picked up their new caravan - a Majestic Knight SLX with all the gear on it.

They have already squeezed in a few short caravan adventures around their work commitments and are looking forward to many more on-the-road holidays.

Peter said they felt reassured to know after they moved into their new community the caravan would be stored safely on site.

“The plan is to move in, lock up and go whenever we are ready,” Peter said.

“I think the beauty of it is there won’t be any lawns to mow, there won’t be any security worries and storing the van on site will be easy.”

“We’ve been going to the social evenings that Halcyon put on, so we’ve met lots of people and everyone we’ve met either has a motorhome or a caravan,” Peter said.

Maureen said they were thrilled to be able to personalise their new home by picking and choosing from a range of impressive-quality finishes and said they decided to upgrade tiles, and benchtops and put in a butler’s pantry.

We just picked out a few mod-cons that we’ve never had before,” Maureen said.

“It’s very exciting.”

The pair are keen golfers but said they were looking forward to learning lawn bowls on the full-sized bowling green and also getting into the gym and inviting the grandchildren around to swim in the heated lap pool.

Halcyon Promenade community will also include a private nature reserve, a recreation club and bar, a spa, a work shed, a library and a cinema.

“The other plus for us was the financial security of not having to worry about maintenance for the next 10 years,” Peter said.

“Thes Stockland staff have been magnificent to us.”