334 Peel Street, Bathurst · Now taking enquiries
Two brand-new High Physical Support homes on Peel Street. Three bedrooms, three ensuites, and a support worker on site overnight: built for independence, comfort and a life that feels like your own.
Welcome to The Post
The Post is a brand-new Specialist Disability Accommodation development at 334 Peel Street, on the established western side of Bathurst. Two separate homes, each single storey, each with its own front door, garage and garden.
Both are built to High Physical Support, the highest SDA design category, with fire sprinklers throughout and properly landscaped gardens. Wide doorways and level floors are there because that's how the homes were drawn, not because rails were added afterwards.
It's built by Brookline, with housing managed by ADAPT Housing as the registered SDA provider, and best-in-class local SIL providers.
Finding a place that genuinely suits you shouldn't take years. We'd love to show you around this one.
Two homes
Each dwelling is its own home with its own entrance, garage and outdoor space.
Single storey
Level from the garage, through the house, out to the patio.
Support
A dedicated room for a support worker, with its own door.
Location
Flat footpaths, shops nearby, hospital minutes away.
Built to a higher standard
Each of these began with a simple question: what would actually make an ordinary day easier, and nicer?
Never lived in. Purpose-built from the ground up as specialist disability accommodation, not a house adapted after the fact.
The garage opens into the house on the level. No ramp to line up, no step to lift over, and you don't get wet in the rain.
An OOA room with its own bathroom and its own door. A support worker is close by at 3am, and out of your living room the rest of the time.
Open to the living area with room to turn around, so cooking happens with everyone else rather than away from them.
One for company and one for quiet. You get to choose which kind of day you're having.
Properly landscaped front and back, with a covered patio off the living room: shaded in summer and dry when it rains.
The homes
Dwelling 1 and Dwelling 2 are the same home, mirrored. Three bedrooms, each with its own ensuite, plus a separate room and bathroom for overnight support. Whichever one you choose, you get exactly the same rooms.
Home one
3 bedrooms · HPS · with OOA
Available to lease
Home two
3 bedrooms · HPS · with OOA · mirror of Dwelling 1
Available to lease
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Where the name comes from
“A small building, doing quiet and essential work for the people around it. That's what stood here in 1942. That's what we've built again.”
In September 1942, Bathurst was full of families who had come to work at the munitions factory out along the Blayney Road. They needed somewhere to post letters home and collect their pay, so a small building went up in the corner of this very block.
It was the Bathurst West Post Office, and a woman named Joyce Ada Bourke ran it. She was the first postmistress the district ever had. She and her husband William were raising five sons in the house out the front at the time.
That little building served the street for more than thirty years. It was small, it was plain, and it mattered enormously to the people around it.
We liked that idea so much we kept the name.
A small separate building was established in the western corner of the allotment for the Bathurst West Post Office in September of 1942. Ada Bourke became the first post mistress.
Statement of Heritage Impact, 334 Peel Street
Daniel Cuneen builds a two-room cottage here, on what was then the edge of town.
William and Lilian Bourke buy the house and raise their five boys in it.
The post office opens in the corner of the block. Ada Bourke is postmistress.
Two new homes, doing something useful for this street all over again.
Gallery
Artist impressions of The Post, and photographs from a completed Brookline home in Tamworth built to the same specification.
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Neighbourhood
The established western side of the city: flat, walkable, and close to everything that matters.
What is SDA
Specialist Disability Accommodation is housing funded through the NDIS for people with extreme functional impairment or very high support needs.
SDA funding is paid to the provider through your plan, which means eligible participants can live in purpose-built accessible housing without carrying standard rental costs. Participants also make a reasonable rent contribution, set by the NDIS.
SDA pays for the building itself: the bricks and mortar. It's separate from the funding that pays for your day-to-day supports, which you arrange through your own support provider.
SDA is for NDIS participants with extreme functional impairment or very high support needs. Your support coordinator, planner or occupational therapist can help you check whether it's in your plan.
Get in touch and we'll connect you with the right people: ADAPT Housing for the property and tenancy, and a support provider of your choosing for daily care.
Your team
Choosing a home means choosing who looks after it, and who looks after you. Here's exactly who does what.
Developer and owner
We buy the land, design the homes and keep owning them afterwards. That last part matters: we're not building these to sell on, so every decision we make now is one we live with, and so do you.
The Post is part of a growing portfolio of SDA properties, alongside Gables on Gladstone in Mudgee and Hillvue House and Hillvue Haven in Tamworth.
Registered SDA provider
ADAPT are the registered SDA provider for The Post. They handle enrolling the homes with the NDIA and the SDA side of your tenancy, and they build across all four SDA design categories, so they know what a home has to do long before anyone signs anything.
They also work with specialists who prepare housing solution reports, which helps if you're still working out what you're eligible for.
Your home and your daily supports are two separate things, funded separately and chosen separately. Living at The Post doesn't tie you to any support provider. If you already have people you trust, bring them with you. If you're still looking, we're happy to point you towards providers working in Bathurst.
Questions
If your question isn't here, just ask us. Nothing is too small or too obvious.
To rent. We're not selling them. Brookline owns the property and intends to keep owning it, because we'd rather be accountable to the people living here than to a buyer. Registering your interest puts you on the list for availability and how to apply.
If you have SDA funding in your NDIS plan, that funding covers the housing itself. Participants also make a reasonable rent contribution, which is set by the NDIS rather than by us. We'll walk you through exactly what that means for your situation, with no surprises.
Specialist Disability Accommodation is NDIS funding for the building itself, for people with very high support needs or extreme functional impairment. It's separate from the funding that pays for your day-to-day supports.
Whether you have it is decided through your NDIS plan. A support coordinator or occupational therapist can check for you, and ADAPT Housing can help arrange a housing solution report. Ask us and we'll point you in the right direction, whether or not you end up living here.
HPS is the highest of the four SDA design categories. It's for people with very high support needs, and the building has to meet a tougher standard: structural provision for ceiling hoists, reinforced walls, wider circulation space that works with a powered wheelchair, and bathrooms designed for fully assisted use.
In practice it means the home is ready for the support you need now and the support you might need later, without anyone opening up a wall down the track. Your NDIS plan needs to include HPS SDA funding for you to live here. Your support coordinator or OT can confirm that.
It's an OOA room: overnight onsite assistance. A proper bedroom for a support worker who stays the night, with its own door, set apart from your bedroom. Someone is there if you need help at 3am. They're not sleeping on your couch or sharing your bathroom.
Yes. Your home and your supports are funded separately and chosen separately, so living at The Post doesn't tie you to anyone. Bring the people you already trust. If you're still looking for a provider, we're happy to point you towards ones working in Bathurst.
Yes and yes. It's your home and your lease. Each home has its own front door, its own living rooms and its own garden. Visitors don't need anyone's permission, and you should absolutely make the place look like yours.
Please do. Get in touch and we'll arrange a time to walk you through the plans and the site, and answer whatever you want to ask. Bring your family, your support coordinator, your OT: whoever helps you make decisions like this.
We're working through council approval at the moment. We won't give you a completion date we can't stand behind, so register your interest and we'll tell you the moment we know something firm.
Get in touch
Whether you're looking for a home, supporting someone who is, or making an enquiry on behalf of an organisation, we're happy to chat. No pressure and no obligation.