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We can build decks, pergolas and fences and handle the first repairs on Curlewis’ new estate homes, and plan sheds and verandahs on its rural living blocks. Stage 2 of the Jetty Road growth area was rezoned in 2025, so more homes are on the way.
Curlewis is mostly the Jetty Road estates between Drysdale, Clifton Springs and Leopold, with farms and rural living blocks around them.
Curlewis had 618 homes in 2016 and 1,600 in 2021, two-thirds with four or more bedrooms and a median age of 34. On estate lots of about 486 square metres, the first jobs are usually a deck or pergola, side gates and fences, and adjusting doors as a new house settles. We already work across the Bellarine, including in Clifton Springs next door.
Amendment C387, gazetted in June 2025, rezoned about 150 hectares in Curlewis for housing as the second half of the Jetty Road growth area, with Tivoli Drive and Greenvale Drive as boulevards. Council’s 2023 Q&A said construction would likely be completed by 2027–28. The town is held inside the Bellarine’s protected settlement boundary.
Rural living blocks around Avila Road are typically about 2 hectares. A design overlay there needs a permit for an outdoor pool, sets a 7.5 metre height and a 20 to 35 degree roof pitch, and prefers natural-stained timber. About 93% of the locality is bushfire prone, but there is no bushfire or flood overlay.
Running a business at Bayview Central or looking after the golf club or a childcare centre? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Curlewis.
What new estate homes and rural living blocks in Curlewis need most.
First decks for estate backyards.
Shade over the alfresco.
Side fences, gates and dividing fences.
Side and driveway gates that hang straight.
Doors adjusted as a new house settles.
Verandahs on rural living homes.
Storage, studies and small additions.
A call or a message, with the address so we can check the estate and overlays.
Estate covenants, the Avila Road design rules and bushfire construction.
Itemised and free, with any permit step set out.
The same crew start to finish.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Coriyule, built in 1849 for squatting partners Anne Drysdale and Caroline Newcomb, stands on McDermott Road and is on the Victorian Heritage Register; its carpentry and joinery were done by Brenton and Howell. Curlewis had a post office from 1866 to 1973.
The 2021 census counted 4,175 residents, nearly all in separate houses and three in ten renting. A young estate on old farmland is why the work here is first decks, fences and settling-in repairs.
Drysdale • Clifton Springs • Leopold • Wallington • Bellarine
Curlewis borders Wallington, Leopold, Drysdale and Clifton Springs, with Port Phillip Bay to the north.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with what the rules allow and a free estimate.