The Queensland council has purchased the 8,700sqm block next to the Sunset Lodge retirement village funded by $187,000 left from the estate of James McAdam in 2006 for “the housing of aged persons within the township of Miriam Vale”.

Formerly home to a 10-unit community housing project owned by the Miriam Vale Council, the site was taken over by the Council when they amalgamated in 2008.

According to Mayor Matt Burnett, it was the perfect opportunity considering they had been left the money to expand the village.

This should be good news for the local community as the region has only had 36 new retirement living units built in the last decade.