Coastal Living, Delivered at Scale
Todd Devine Homes is proud to be the appointed builder for Serenitas’ Thyme Lifestyle Resort Ocean Grove, a major over-50s lifestyle community on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula.
The development will deliver 205 thoughtfully designed homes across multiple stages, combining relaxed coastal living with low-maintenance design, accessibility and long-term liveability.
Thyme Lifestyle Resort Ocean Grove has been designed around the way residents want to live now and into the future.
Each home combines quality, durability and low-maintenance living with thoughtful design suited to an over-50s community.
The homes are designed to support step-free access, comfortable everyday living and long-term structural performance, while the wider community brings together landscaped streetscapes, shared amenities and a strong sense of connection.
Located on the Bellarine Peninsula, the development offers residents a relaxed coastal lifestyle while remaining within easy reach of Geelong and surrounding communities.
With 205 homes planned, Thyme Ocean Grove is one of Todd Devine Homes’ significant large-scale community delivery programs.
Rather than delivering the project as one continuous construction sequence, the development progresses across multiple stages simultaneously.
At different points in the program, Todd Devine Homes can be completing handovers in one stage while carrying out internal fit-off, lock-up, framing, slab works and underground services across others.
This staged approach allows construction to maintain momentum while ensuring every home continues to move through defined quality, inspection and handover processes.
The scale of Thyme Ocean Grove means multiple construction phases operate concurrently across the site.
During the program, activity has included:
This simultaneous delivery demonstrates Todd Devine Homes’ ability to coordinate multiple stages of a large community development without losing visibility over quality, sequencing or customer outcomes.
Every home begins long before the frame goes up.
At Thyme Ocean Grove, careful coordination between footings, underground services, engineering and site preparation establishes the foundation for each construction stage.
Once base works are complete, homes progress through framing, lock-up, services, internal fit-off, quality assurance, Practical Completion and final handover.
The result is a structured delivery pathway designed to maintain consistency across hundreds of homes at different stages of construction.
A key focus of the Ocean Grove homes is creating a strong, accessible foundation suited to long-term lifestyle living.
The project has used engineered concrete base solutions designed to provide step-free access and long-term structural performance.
Todd Devine Homes has also continued to develop its concrete base methodology, including an engineered base designed with future transportability in mind.
This approach brings together the solidity and accessibility benefits of concrete construction with the flexibility that has long been associated with Todd Devine Homes’ modular and transportable building expertise.
It reflects an ongoing focus on developing construction systems that respond not only to current project requirements, but to the future adaptability of homes and communities.
Our in-house design team works closely with Serenitas, project consultants and engineers to bring each home design to life while maintaining consistency across a large-scale development.
The project includes six unique home designs, allowing residents greater choice while ensuring each design can be delivered efficiently across the broader construction program.
Thyme Ocean Grove demonstrates Todd Devine Homes’ ability to manage multiple stages of a major community development concurrently.
From underground services and slabs through to kitchens, Practical Completion and homeowner handovers, our teams coordinate each stage as part of one integrated delivery program.
Homeowner experience remains an important part of delivery even as construction continues across later stages.
Practical Completion inspections, handovers and ongoing communication occur while other areas of the project remain under active construction.
This requires careful coordination between construction teams, Serenitas and Customer Experience to make the transition into a new home feel considered and seamless.
Our dedicated Customer Portal provides transparent, real-time visibility throughout the build journey.
Progress updates, photo milestones, key documentation and clearer communication give clients and project teams greater visibility over each home as it moves through construction.
Long-standing relationships with suppliers, consultants and trade partners help Todd Devine Homes maintain consistent quality and delivery certainty across a project of this scale.
Partners including James Hardie, Dulux and other industry-leading suppliers contribute to repeatable quality across every stage of the development.
Large community projects depend on more than construction alone.
Todd Devine Homes and Serenitas hold fortnightly project meetings to review progress, coordinate upcoming works, address challenges and maintain safe and efficient delivery across the site.
These meetings help align:
This structured communication helps identify potential bottlenecks early and keeps multiple project stages moving together.
Quality assurance is embedded throughout the construction process rather than left to the final inspection.
As homes move through framing, lock-up, internal fit-off and completion, inspections and checks are carried out progressively to support consistency across the development.
Practical Completion inspections then provide a final structured review before each home is handed over.
This approach allows Todd Devine Homes to maintain quality across a large volume of concurrent construction activity while continuing to meet programmed delivery milestones.
Thyme Ocean Grove has been designed for people looking to right-size without compromising lifestyle.
The wider resort is planned around connection, recreation and low-maintenance living, with amenities including:
Combined with thoughtfully designed homes and a coastal Bellarine location, the project is intended to provide residents with both independence and a stronger sense of community.
At Thyme Ocean Grove, five stages of construction can be progressing at the same time.
While residents are receiving keys in one part of the development, other homes may be moving through internal fit-off, lock-up, framing or underground service works elsewhere on the site.
Managing this level of simultaneous activity requires detailed scheduling, strong site supervision and close collaboration between Todd Devine Homes, Serenitas, civil teams, suppliers and trade partners.
It is this coordinated approach that allows the project to maintain momentum while keeping quality and homeowner experience front and centre.
Managing multiple stages concurrently allows later phases of the development to progress while completed homes move through Practical Completion and handover.
This creates a more continuous delivery program and reduces the downtime that can occur when stages are treated as completely separate projects.
Fortnightly meetings between Todd Devine Homes and Serenitas create a consistent forum for reviewing progress, coordinating upcoming works and resolving issues early.
This level of alignment is especially important when civil works, construction activities, resident handovers and future stages are all occurring within the same development.
Step-free living begins with the construction system beneath the home.
Engineering the base around accessibility and long-term performance helps support comfortable living now while considering the changing needs of residents over time.
The development of a concrete base engineered with transportability in mind demonstrates how Todd Devine Homes continues to evolve its construction systems.
By combining the benefits of concrete construction with future flexibility, Todd Devine Homes can apply lessons from traditional onsite, modular and transportable building methods to new community projects.
A major staged project does not stop being a construction site when the first resident moves in.
Thyme Ocean Grove demonstrates the importance of managing active construction alongside Practical Completion, handovers and an emerging resident community.
This experience continues to strengthen Todd Devine Homes’ approach to live-site planning, communication and customer experience.
Quality assurance is embedded throughout every stage of construction, from base works and framing through to fit-off, Practical Completion and handover.
Progressive inspections and defined quality checkpoints help Todd Devine Homes maintain consistency across a high volume of homes, even while multiple stages are progressing at once.
Thyme Lifestyle Resort Ocean Grove brings together Todd Devine Homes’ construction capability with Serenitas’ experience creating lifestyle communities across Australia.
The project requires close collaboration between designers, engineers, site teams, civil contractors, suppliers, trades and project management teams.
That partnership allows the development to move from early infrastructure works through to completed streets and resident handovers as one coordinated program.
The first slab pour marked an important milestone for Thyme Ocean Grove, taking the project from months of planning, engineering, footings and underground services into visible vertical construction.
Since then, the development has progressed across five concurrent stages, with residents receiving keys while future homes continue to take shape.
With 205 homes planned, six home designs and a delivery model built around accessibility, quality and staged construction, Thyme Ocean Grove showcases Todd Devine Homes’ capability to deliver complex lifestyle communities at scale.
It is a project built around more than individual homes.
It is about creating an entire community, one stage at a time.
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