Stuart Highway · Beetaloo Sub-basin · Northern Territory
Dunmarra is a planned petroleum services precinct and workforce village on the Stuart Highway, between Elliott and Daly Waters. Fenced, powered service-company lots. Modular accommodation with mess, laundry and recreation. Services open to the local community.
Schematic structure plan. Not to scale. Guest and freight traffic use separate highway junctions.
Standard S / M / L packages with workshop, water and gas connections and a self-contained power system.
See available lots → OperatorsBlocks of modular units with mess, laundry and lounges, minutes from the Beetaloo access roads.
Accommodation packages → CommunityGrocery, medical, pool, gym and jobs open to Elliott, Daly Waters and surrounding communities.
How access works → Government & partnersStaged from 100 to 3,000 cabins. Designed to keep Beetaloo spend and employment in the Territory.
Project overview →The precinct
The village is organised in clusters of 120 modular units, each with its own mess and kitchen, laundry, lounges and courts. Clusters share a town centre with a community hall, supermarket and shops, sports oval, pool and water tower. The services precinct sits south, on its own freight road.
Steel-framed modular unit, 12 m × 3.2 m, transported complete and set on pad footings. Every unit is designed for cyclone-rated wind loads and NT heat.
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.
For operators and contractors
Take a row, a cluster, or a cluster with your own mess. Units are single-occupancy with 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.
Closed workforce camps are cheap to run and expensive for the region: money leaves on the same plane as the crew. Dunmarra is built so the services a workforce needs also serve the people who already live here, and so a share of the roles are filled locally. For operators that means a social licence case that stands up in front of Traditional Owners, the NT Government and the public.
Community
Dunmarra is not a permanent town and not a closed camp. It is a serviced village where the grocery, clinic, pool, gym and venues are run commercially and open to anyone, including the people of Elliott, Daly Waters and surrounding communities.
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.
Project
Dunmarra Development Land Pty Ltd is delivering the precinct in stages that match Beetaloo activity, with each stage a complete, operable village.
First cluster, mess and laundry, services precinct stage 1 lots, town water and power.
Four clusters, town centre core: supermarket, hall, clinic, first venues.
Oval, pool, school and clinic land, airstrip terminal, expanded freight precinct.
Full build-out across eight villages with reserved commercial expansion land.
Enquire
Lot leasing, accommodation blocks, supply and services tenancies, or community partnership. Tell us who you are and what you need; we reply within two business days.
Dunmarra Development
Kit Sheffield, Cofounder
kit@dunmarrant.com.au