A detailed concept plan for Concordia was released yesterday, with the plans including an area designated for a potential future health facility.
Several further amendments have been revealed since concept plans were made public as part of community engagement for the draft Concordia Code Amendment, which concluded in July, including the expansion of the landscape buffer zone around most of the eastern and northern border of the area zone to keep housing from being built too close to exisiting primary production land.
The proposed employment zone has been reduced in size, while area has been reserved for the building of a CFS/SES site.
The previously included four primary schools, one secondary school, railway station, district park, district community centre and four sports and recreation reserves/communities centres are still present in the plan revealed yesterday.
Rezoning of the 995 hectares of rural land to a residential area was also finalised, with the first new water infrastructure pipes having been laid last week.
At a press conference yesterday Minister for Housing and Urban Development Nick Champion said water, sewage, road and community infrastructure has all been considered in the development of the area.
"We've got to look to the future and when we look to the future we know Concordia is an essential part of that," Mr Champion said.
"Concordia will provide 12,000 homes, it will be home to 25,000 people and it's important to get this growth right."
The area of Concordia is expected to remain within the boundaries of The Barossa Council following a decision made recently by Minister for Local Government, Joe Szakacs to reject recommendations made by the SA Local Government Boundaries Commission for it to move into Town of Gawler.
The Barossa Council, Mayor Bim Lange, said that it was exciting to see the plans beginning to come to fruition.
"The pre-planning that's gone into this development (has ensured) no stone is left unturned so that when people come and live in Concordia, they'll experience high-end infrastructure and all the services that is needed for growing activities and the social life in the Barossa," Mayor Lange said.
"Twenty odd years of planning and here we are...things are happening."
The State Government will consult with landowners to finalise the scheme over the coming weeks.
Civil and landscape works are reported as on track to begin by the end of 2027 with construction of homes is expected to begin by the end of 2029.