Land . Power . Accommodation . Community
Dunmarra is planned for the Stuart Highway between Elliott and Daly Waters, built around a petroleum services precinct and a workforce village. Fenced, powered service-company lots. Permanent accommodation with mess, laundry and recreation. A town centre open to the region.
Lots and clusters are released against contracted Beetaloo activity, with each stage a complete, operable part of the precinct.
Native title and benefit-sharing are being settled with the Northern Land Council ahead of construction.
Every lot and cluster runs on its own solar, battery and gas firming from the pipeline at the boundary.
Gas development in the Beetaloo brings drilling, completions, civil and logistics crews to a region with almost no serviced land and no workforce housing. Contractors are left to build their own camps, one at a time, hundreds of kilometres from a town.
Dunmarra puts the workshop, the bed and the mess in one place, on the highway, with gas and an airstrip at the fence:
Each stage is delivered as a complete village, so an operator leases into a working precinct rather than a plan, and every stage adds permanent roads, water, power and community facilities built for the long term.
At full build-out Dunmarra is a permanent, town-sized development of 2,760 units in 23 village clusters, with a town centre, school land and an airstrip, beside a services precinct sized for the contractors who support them.
Standard packages so a contractor is operating within weeks, not seasons
Every lot is fenced, has a workshop with rooftop solar, water and gas connections and its own metered power system sized to the tier. Sealed frontage on the precinct roads, reached from the single highway entrance, with the rail and gas corridor to the south and the airport to the east.
Sixty two-suite cabins to a cluster, with its own mess, laundry and lounges
Clusters of 120 units share a town centre with a community hall, supermarket and shops, two pools, three tennis courts, a sports oval, a golf driving range and the water tower. Every unit is a single-occupancy suite with its own entry, ensuite and kitchenette.
Dunmarra's purpose is to give the Beetaloo a permanent serviced base that keeps wages, spend and jobs in the Territory, and that the people who already live here can use.
Long-term infrastructure, released against contracted activity, not speculation.
Solar, battery and gas firming on every lot and cluster.
Cyclone-rated buildings, NT heat, wet-season access.
Grocery, clinic, pool and venues open to the public.
Catering, cleaning and site services by specialists you contract.
The precinct is designed around what development in the Territory actually requires: settled relationships with Traditional Owners and the NT Government, climate-resilient construction, and timelines that survive a wet season.
What that means in practice:
The precinct serves:
Drilling and completions | Wireline, coil tubing and cementing | Civil and logistics | Fabrication and maintenance | Catering and facilities operators | Government and community services
“Closed workforce camps are cheap to run and expensive for the region: money leaves on the same plane as the crew. Dunmarra is built to be permanent, so the services a workforce needs also serve the people who already live here, and so a share of the roles are filled locally.”Dunmarra Development
Dunmarra brings the pieces a Beetaloo services base needs into one place, on land already serviced by the highway and the gas pipeline, with room for a jet airstrip:
Services precinct
Standard packages so a contractor can be operating within weeks, not seasons. Every lot is fenced, has a workshop, water and gas connections, and its own power system sized to the tier. Select a lot for the full package.
| Lot | Tier | Lot area | Workshop | Frontage | Status |
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Stage 1 release. Lot numbers, sizes and availability are indicative and will be confirmed at lease.
Accommodation unit
Steel-framed modular cabin, 12 m × 3.2 m, factory-built and set on pad footings as a permanent building. Each cabin holds two separately entered suites with their own ensuites, back to back around a shared plant bay. Designed for cyclone-rated wind loads and NT heat.
Cabin and precinct designs are schematic and will be refined in design development. The two-suite layout is a Dunmarra concept on the Fortress Industries 12 m module; dimensions are indicative.
For operators and contractors
Take a row, a cluster, or a cluster with your own mess. Every unit is a single-occupancy suite with its own entry, ensuite and kitchenette, so crews on long rotations get a room, not a donga. Dunmarra is a landlord: catering, cleaning and site services are run by specialist operators you contract directly or through us.
Short-term crews, shutdown and construction peaks. Shared cluster mess and laundry.
Standing rotation for a drilling or completions campaign. Dedicated lounge.
Own mess and kitchen, laundry, lounges and court. Branded, gated if required.
Early works lodging for pipeline, power and civil contractors while their own facilities are built.
Community
Dunmarra is planned as a permanent development, not a closed camp. It is designed to work like a small town: the grocery, clinic, pool, gym and venues are run commercially and open to anyone, including the people of Elliott, Daly Waters and surrounding communities. It is a private development, not an official town, owned and managed by Dunmarra Development Land Pty Ltd rather than a council or government.
Grocery, medical, fitness, pool and licensed venues operate as businesses, priced for the public. Nothing is free, and nothing is behind a boom gate.
Hospitality, maintenance, retail, transport and site services are local roles first. Training pathways are being developed with regional providers and Traditional Owner organisations.
The precinct is designed so a Beetaloo workforce can rotate from Darwin and Alice Springs rather than interstate or overseas, keeping wages and spend in the Territory.
Master plan
Dunmarra Development Land Pty Ltd is building Dunmarra in stages that match Beetaloo activity, with each stage complete and operable. Capacities are units (beds); cabins hold two.
First cluster, mess and laundry, highway entrance and service station, services precinct stage 1 lots, water and power.
Four clusters, town centre core: water tower, supermarket, hall, clinic, first venues.
Oval, pools, tennis courts and driving range, school land, airstrip terminal, expanded services precinct.
Full build-out: a permanent development of 23 village clusters, town centre and services precinct, with land in reserve for growth.
Project partners:
Master plan: Bennett Architecture | Modular buildings: Fortress Industries | Accommodation and precinct design: Rossi Architects | Construction and civil: Darwin-based contractors | Legal and advisory: Darwin firms