Dandaragan Windfarms
Updated Information for Wind Farm Contractors:
Yandin Wind Farm Dandaragan
Waddi Wind and Solar Farm Dandaragan WA
Contractors Accommodation: 10 to 100 plus workers for long term:
Package Plans and Accommodation Only Options for Redgum Village Dandaragan:
Currently 52 Bedrooms with 95 beds.
Set a precedence with a company on the Dampier-Bunbury Pipeline – DDP in 2010.
Where we had shire approval for an extra 50 rooms at that time making up to 120 separate bedrooms.
Underground infrastructure still in place.
Our Mine Camp style Kitchen and Dining Room / Restaurant can handle 80 persons. An alternative option is in place for larger numbers.
The Games room – social area will be modified to suit the contractors requirements along with our own common sense policies eg: wet or dry bar – alcohol restrictions etc..
1) Contractors Premium Package Deal:
All Prices are now based per individual tender requirements:
We need to take into account infrastructure costs to suit your requirements.
Please call for a individual personalised quote.
Your own kitchen – dining area is an option.
We need to take into account infrastructure costs to suit your requirements.
Please call for a individual personalised quote.
Your own kitchen – dining area is an option.
We aim to be competitive and serve your company as how we treat people ourselves, we live here, we want you here, the town wants you here, and we will still be here after your project is finished
One person per room long term en-suited accommodation and 3 meals
Please ring Evan 0429 489 479 or email evan@wn.com.au for your personalised long term deal for group booking.
Inclusive. Includes the following menu and all the special extras:
Cooked breakfast from the bain-marie buffet consisting of:
- Bacon – eggs (poached and fried) – sausages – hash browns – tomato – mushrooms – bake beans – spaghetti – toast
- Continental Breakfast of variety cereals, porridge on request, fruits, lite and normal milk, apple and orange juice
- 24hr tea and coffee – Café coffee on request
P.Y.O Lunch Bar from cold bain-marie: Make own sandwiches, rolls, wraps or containers.
- Several salads – several cold meats – several european tastes
- several bread types, rolls and wrap breads
- condiments and spreads
- variety of fresh fruit
- cakes – biscuits – muffins
Evening Meal from the buffet: Choice of –
- two meats eg: beef, lamb, pork, fish
- one wet meat eg: shepherd’s pie, casserole, stroganoff, marinated meat loaf
- and or pasta dish eg: spaghetti bolognaise, lasagne, Gaylene special
- all meals will include a vegetarian option
- minimum 4 fresh vegies, 1 frozen
Soup: will be offered if required or due on demand.
Sweets or a pudding: selection every night:
- from apple crumble to mousse to chocolate surprise to lemon meringue to tin fruit and jellies cream etc….
Special extras included in the Full package Deal:
- ice
- 24hr tea coffee
- Commercial laundry for private use
- Plenty car and truck safe off street parking
- Access to games and gym room
- Self-help kitchens if required
- BBQ and relax area under the sails
- Toolbox meetings under the sails or in Restaurant area
- Wifi
2) Contractors Budget Package:
One person long term per room non en-suited accommodation and 3 meals
Please ring Evan 0429 489 479 or email evan@wn.com.au for your personalised long term deal.
Inclusive of all the above menu and special extras:
3-A) En-suite Room Only:
- Only available if room not taken as a premium package deal.
- Living Away From Home Allowance options available, just ask.
- Please ring Evan 0429 489 479 or email evan@wn.com.au for your personalised long term deal.
3-B) Non En-Suite Room Only:
All Rooms en-suite and non en-suite have:
- Either King Single, Queen, Double or Single bed and all linen / towels
- Flat Screen Digital TV – DVD Player
- Fridge
- Reverse Cycle Air conditioner
- Desk, Chair, Wardrobe
Other points of interest.
- We do have some executive rooms
- There are no self-contained cabins – no meals to be cooked in rooms
- Selective Company staff can use our onsite office
(as we use our home office) - Restaurant can also be used for Corporate Events and Team Meetings
- Skymuster internet works quite well and wifii
- Telstra and Optus phone coverage
- Plenty room and precedent set with shire for temporary expansion
- Facilities already in place for expansion from a previous installation
- Green lawns and palm trees for the right atmosphere after a big days work
- Generator backup
- Pump water as well as town supply
- Combination of Electric and Gas hot water systems
- And yes there is more……
Dandaragan Township:
Convenience Shop: The Dandaragan Store – PO – Groceries – Fuel
Mechanical Services: Dandaragan Mechanical – car and truck repairs – niteroad depot
Dandaragan Shire Depot:
Dandaragan Concrete Works: David Chapman – Chappo
Dandaragan Transport x 2 Trucking Companies: Dalton Transport / RussHills
CRC: Community Resource Centre
Sports Club: Bar and Sports fields – golf course – bowling green – tennis courts
Church: St Annes
Further info on www.redgumvillage.com.au/dandaragan-projects/
Luncheon at Redgum
Gaylene keeps raising the bar for the Luncheons at the Redgum Restaurant.
As they become more popular, Gaylene digs a wee bit deeper into her creativity talents.
All for the pleasure of entertaining guests with a little bit more than just good food, Nothing wrong with a bit of presentational flair 
This is just a hint of what you can expect when making a booking for a Luncheon at the Redgum Restaurant with food cooked and presented from the heart of Gaylene’s Kitchen
Menu for Redgum Restaurant here
Mothers day
Mothers and Grandma’s Day Menu: May 14 2017
Breakfast – Lunch – Brunch
Book a table for two or up to a Group of 20 for 1 or 2hr sittings
from 10am to 3pm
Menu (order on arrival from a more detailed menu)
Breakfast or Brunch: From $15 to $24
- Bacon and Eggs:
2 free range eggs, 2 rashers lightly cooked bacon (ask for crispy)
and a hash brown served on sourdough toast
- Eggs Benedict:
2 poached free range eggs coated with hollandaise sauce served with spinach
and tomato on sourdough toast
Add a hash brown or a rasher of bacon or slice of smoked salmon:
- Village Breakfast: (The hunga busta)
2 eggs, 2 rashers of bacon, beef sausage, tomato, mushrooms,
b-beans, hash brown, served on sourdough toast
- Omlette: – 3 eggs
butter melted mushrooms, spinach, tomato and crushed feta
Want a rasher of bacon?
- Pancakes:
Served with rasher bacon, ice cream and canadian maple syrup
MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL:
- Miguel Maestre’s French Croissants’
“Treat Mum to a super-indulgent French breakfast feast“ French croissants’ soaked in Miguel’s special recipe with berries and cream
Lunch or Brunch: From $15 to $25
- Chicken Parmigiana:
Crumbed chicken breast, dressed with Gaylene’s in house napoli sauce and melting mozzarella cheese served with a garden salad and crispy chips. - Steak Sandwich:
Juicy tender fillet of beef, onion relish and salad on toasted turkish bread
served on a garnished wooden platter. - B.L.T:
Bacon – Lettuce – Tomato What more can we say? OK its a big BLT! - Steak n Chips:
Juicy cut of scotch or rump fillet with garden salad and crispy chips - Fish n Chips:
Flavour filled fillet of beer battered snapper, crispy chips and salad - Fillet of Salmon:
Lightly cooked crispy skin with a dob of hollandaise sauce served with spinach and tomato
Add a poached egg - Cesar Salad & Chicken:
Cos lettuce, crispy bacon bits, croutons, onion, cherry tomatoes,
poached egg and caesar dressing.
Kids Meals: $10
- Chicken Breast Nuggets (real mchicken breast, Mackers have tried to copy us!!)
- Spaghetti Bolagnaise
- Ham n Cheese Toastie
Hot Drinks:
Coffee: $4
- Flat White
- Cappuccino
- Long Black
Cup of Tea: $3
- English Breakfast
- Earl Gray
Cold Milk Drinks:
- Milk Shake 6
Vanilla – Choc – Strawberry – Spearmint – Maple - Iced Coffee (Gaylene Style) 8
Looks the part and tastes just as good – ice cream and cream
Cold Drinks: $3
- Orange Juice
- Coke
- Lemonade
Happy Mothers Day 🙂
Dandaragan Contractors
Redgum Village Dandaragan has a scenario below that you may be able to relate to:
Tenders for Construction of ABC Project near Dandaragan West Australia close this friday 8th march, condition 44b now states you must supply own accommodation and meals.
So you have a tendered for a contract in and around Dandaragan for your business and you have spent months putting together the tender for the job, you have been successful at pricing the project with all your companies expertise and its looking really good.
The materials are all available, the staff can all be accessed, you have the expertise to do the job and it should take about 8 months.
The first month you will need about 8 to 10 staff to do the preliminary works and then build up to around 40 for 6 months then drop down to about 10 to 15 to finish off the project and tidy up.
Now you have one week to organise accommodation and meals, plus you will need a meeting place to hold the daily tool box gathering.
This usually means a 5am breakfast, and a full cooked one of crispy bacon and poached or fried eggs, sausages, tomato, hash browns, mushrooms, bake beans and spaghetti thick hot toast and that never ending cup of coffee, along with a variety of cereals fruit and juice so you get all persons involved with the project off to a good start before the tool box meeting.
Then there is the parking and security of the work vehicles that all head off to the site in the early hours of the morning, parked on site in the car-park in front of the main office and the bigger vehicles in a safe park out the back with plenty of room to swing them around.
You need to know that each person has packed their own lunch of tasty cold meats and crisp fresh salads with home-made muffins and biscuits for smoko. Some maybe even had the friendly cook package some of last night’s scrumptious dinner into a sealed container then kept in the kitchen cool room overnight to ensure kept to health standard regulations. This helps ensure that the start of the day will run without a hitch.
Once at work you are at your peril and what happens out here is all in your control.
After work the last thing you need is any drama with accommodation and meals, this includes a nice hot shower and a comfy clean bed.
Nothing too fancy as the crew will all be in boots and work gear but at the same time you want a relaxing clean place to chill out after work, make sure all the crew are at ease before settling into a nice coldie out of the fridge from their own en-suited rooms.
You do not need the hassle of a pub where you are chasing the crew in the mornings with breathalyser gear to ensure they are safe to go to work, so a place that has a BYO and entertaining areas inside and outside either in the function room with a pool table, darts, ping-pong and the Digital TV service, air-conditioned in summer and heated in winter with a decking area outside for the expected smokers amongst the crew, or under a paved and flowing sails area where there is a massive 10 burner BBQ and a waterfall featured fish pond which captures the late afternoon breeze and is onsite.
All this would be very comforting and so relaxing.
Then there is the main evening meal at a time that suits the crew, around 6pm to 7-7.30pm after they have had time out to shower and chill before sitting down to a meal where they can go to the bain-marie and help themselves to a choice of a minimum two hot meats and a pasta dish along with a minimum 5 vegetables of the colour groups white, green and red. Most of all freshly cooked on site just like Mum use to make, home cooked, fresh and plenty of it. Then followed up by some delicious cooked and cold sweets, puddings for the after dinner ah ha moment.
Once they have all eaten and are ready to call it a night, you will probably be seeking a quiet environment, like no road noise, no party people or loud music after 10pm.
It would even be greater if the management of the accommodation enforce this and provide late night security, at the same time respecting the crew their privacy.
Now what say you are on a tight budget and still want all these features and are willing to have non ensuite single rooms each and with double beds at a cheaper rate, no worries.
The super budget of twin share, certainly not often asked for but would be available if required.
Then there is the issue of the Project manager and foreman wanting slightly upgraded rooms and one especially for the main boss whom drops in from time to time, yep we need to cover that one too.
Once in a while it would be great to have a BBQ evening and let the crew mingle and relax a bit more especially with the sizzling sounds of steak and onions crackling in the background as the camp cooks are laughing along with the crew.
Gosh where could we find all that in one place?
What if you finish that contract and there is an extension from it as you did such a great job and all the staff were happy and worked well together and you needed to extend your accommodation and add another 30 persons for another 6 to 9 months.
Easy I suppose as you would ask the Village owners if you could bring in your own 4 person en-suited dongers and connect to the existing infrastructure that is already there and carry on as you were.
Easy eh….
Redgum Village, Public Accommodation in Dandaragan supplies Accommodation and meals to all forms of contractors and their staff. 24/7.
All of the above included.
Fill in the booking form with your no obligation enquiry and ask for your free report to comply with your requirements.
We have had a few Road Crews staying here at Redgum Village public Accommodation in the last few years.
Lately Leightons as a sub contractor to Main Roads completed 9 months works on the Brand hwy between Regans Ford and Cataby.
In 2012 Boral stayed here for a couple months doing works around Badgingarra.
Ertech were here 6 to 7 years ago, Brierty, Downer, RnR Contractors and a few other sub contractors along the way.
McConnell Dowell (MacDow) for the Gas Line Project, ATS for a powerline project and many more.
Some examples of every day Food and the Kitchen:
More Food:
Other Areas of Redgum :
Corporate Events Rates
Full Service Accommodation & Complimentary Breakfast:
Corporate event guests get the serviced accommodation complimentary cooked breakfast as part of the Corporate Event.
Event can be a combination of the following:
- Business Meeting
- Team Building Activity
- Conference
- Team Training
- Expo
Breakfast is from the Buffet in the Redgum Dining Hall
Mine Camp Style!
Accommodation from $80 p/p p/n twin or double share
Single Room Queen or King Single bed from $120 p/p p/n
All Bookings by phone (08) 9651 4223
e:mail booking@redgumvillage.com.au
Corporate Event Packages
Example of Conference and Accommodation Package:
Group of 20 people:
Meals: All in Restaurant:
- Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner $100 per person
Accommodation: Shearers Quarters* or Mining “Donger”**
- Single Room – $120 per person
- Twin Share or Double $80 per person
Conference Room: – No Charge through March – April
Activities: from $10 pp
- 9 – Hole Golf
- 18 – Hole Golf
- Corporate lawn Bowls (subject to availability)
- Doubles Tennis
In House Activities:
Team bonding fun games in Conference Room or within the Redgum Village:
- No Charge through March – April
* Shearers Quarters: These bedrooms are what our shearing team used to live in. These are upgraded to suit health department regulations.
There are photos of on farm shearers quarters that you wouldn’t have let your dog sleep in to show you how rough and tough shearers were right up to the late 80’s early 90’s
** 4 x single persons bedrooms in a de-mountable building (transportable)
The style of bedroom used by mining companies throughout Australia
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Parkway Minerals Dandaragan
Parkway Minerals NL aims to extract essential fertilizer feedstocks, phosphate and potash, from one of the world’s largest green-sand deposits.
Parkway Mineral’s Dandaragan Trough Project is focused on exploiting a very large, shallow deposit of green-sand, which contains both rock phosphate and glauconite.
Glauconite is a green mineral commonly containing 4-6% potash as KO as well as varying amounts of iron, aluminium and magnesium.
Studies and testwork have indicated that two projects are commercially viable:
- Production of single super-phosphate, from the rock phosphate present in the green-sand
- Production of potash, alum, single super-phosphate and Iron oxide, from the glauconite component of the green-sand.
The Company has a major land holding over a globally significant deposit of green-sand with exploration licenses and applications covering an area of 2,000km2.
Ten of the twelve tenements are contiguous extending for over 100km north-south with a maximum width of over 30km.
The first drilling programmes have identified sufficient resources to allow long-life operations.
Parkway Minerals has completed an option agreement to purchase landholding covering approx 90% of Dinner Hill Resources.
The freehold property “Yallambe”
Redgum Restaurant feb
February has seen a gradual pick up for dining in the Redgum Restaurant here at Redgum Village.
Redgum Restaurant and Cafe and Take Away Menus Here
It has been great to see local Dandaragan and Moora people dining in the Restaurant.
A big thankyou to you all 🙂
The latter part of feb and march are getting busy with confirmed bookings so we beg farewell to our quite January and look forward to busier times.
There will be an Election breakfast in March on election day, the 11th at this stage.
I know Gaylene has a few surprises for you all on that day, with cooked brekfasts from $10 and take away bacon egg rolls as well.
Coffee to stay or Coffee to go, take your pick.
After the last election in Dandaragan which was our first official opening of Gaylene’s Kitchen we look to improve on selection of food and shorter time to receive it.
Loving the weather, hot, cold, wet, muggy, hot whats next? Am sure the weed sprayers in town will be happy and gearing up for a weed extermination programme
Looking forward to happier days
February at Redgum
Valentines has been and gone, was interesting to see the romantics of Dandaragan almost out numbered by the Moora love birds 🙂
No matter, from the sounds of everything the night was a success and a big thankyou to Gaylene for putting on a great menu for the Redgum Restaurant.
Redgum Restaurant Menus here
Once again we are slack on the photos but I did pinch these off facebook:
So looking forward to the next specialised event. Maynot get around to St Patricks day as we have a cataby mine shut crew in that week and will be a bit busy.
However we will do an election day breakfast on March 11, will keep you posted on that. In the meantime keep coming into the Redgum Restaurant and let Gaylene woo her wand and dish you up another great dish from her menu
Enjoy 🙂
Badgingarra Research Station
The Dandaragan shire persual of the Badgingarra research station is on going and with the proposed land lease below this can still be a reality.
Badgingarra Research Station – Extension To Farm Lease Agreement
Location: Lot 3712 Winjardie Road, Badgingarra
Applicant: N/A
Folder Path: Business Classification Scheme / Council Properties / Acquisition and Disposal / Purchasing
Disclosure of Interest: None
Date: 13 February 2017
Author: Tony Nottle, Chief Executive Officer
Signature of Author:
PROPOSAL That Council agrees to the extension to the Farm Lease Agreement for the Badgingarra Research Station (BRS) between the Shire of Dandaragan and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) for a further three years to the 28 February 2020 and that Council amends the Sublease with West Midlands Group (WMG) to reflect this extension.
BACKGROUND Council has been discussing the possibility of acquiring the BRS since discussions first commenced in 2012, when the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA) advised it would be selling off some of its assets. At Council’s meeting held on the 26 September 2013, it was resolved: That Council agree to contact the Department of Lands, State Lands Services expressing its interest in acquiring the Badgingarra Research Station located at Lot 3712 Winjardie Road, Badgingarra.
CARRIED 8 / 0
Council’s Expression of Interest (EOI) to purchase the BRS was communicated to the Department of Lands, via representatives from the Lands Property Asset Clearing House. On the 3 November 2015, an email was received from Mr Tyack from the Department of Lands advising that the BRS was no longer surplus due to a proposed business direction and will be retained for ongoing research therefore, removing it from their disposal program.
However, since this time, the proposed business direction did not occur in which DAFWA then advertised the BRS for lease as of 1 February 2016 for 12 months. On the 10 December 2015, Council held a special meeting and resolved the following:
That Council agrees to submit an Expression of Interest to the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia for the lease of the Badgingarra Research Station, Lot 3712 Winjardie Road, Badgingarra as per the following conditions:
- amount to be stipulated at $36,848 per annum as per the previous arrangement between the West Midlands Group and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia for the amount of $36,848 per annum for a 12 month period;
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia be advised that the Shire of Dandaragan wish to purchase the property freehold at the conclusion of the lease at an agreed value; and
- that the West Midlands Group be required to meet all lease conditions via an appropriate agreement on behalf of the Shire of Dandaragan to be subleased at the amount of $36,848 per annum.
CARRIED 7 / 0
Council’s EOI to lease the BRS was successful with a lease agreement being signed in May 2016 for a 12 month period commencing from 24 May 2016 with an option of a further 12 months. The WMG currently sublease and manage the property as it has done for the last three to four years. On the 31 January 2017 Cr Richardson, representing the Shire President, and the CEO met with the Minister for Agriculture and Food the Hon Mark Lewis MLC together with representatives from the WMG, the Badgingarra Community Association and DAFWA. It was discussed at this meeting that an extension to the lease would allow the current operations to continue while decisions could be made at a State Government level in relation to the future of the BRS. The group generally agreed that a three (3) year term would be ideal.
COMMENT The current lease expiry date is 23 May 2017. The lease agreement provides an option to extend the term of the agreement for a further 12 months by mutual consent of both parties. In consultation with DAFWA, Council has been successful in securing an extension to the lease of up to three years commencing from 23 May 2017 to 28 February 2020 at the same rent and conditions as detailed in the current lease.
CONSULTATION
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- West Midlands Group
- Badgingarra Community Association
- Minister for Agriculture and Food, Hon Mark Lewis MLC
STATUTORY ENVIRONMENT There are no statutory implications in relation to the leasing of the BRS. Appropriate lease and subleases have been prepared by Council’s solicitors to ensure our interests are protected and clearly outlined.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS There are no relevant policies in relation to this item.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS WMG has confirmed that they will continue to reimburse the Shire for the same amount so that the lease arrangement has a nil effect on the Shire’s operational budget. The agreement with the WMG would need to be amended to reflect the extension and to continue to ensure they are responsible for the lease conditions during that period.
STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS 2016 – 2026 Strategic Community Plan
Goal 1: Great Place for residential and Business Development
Objectives
1.1 Ensure planning and land availability provides opportunity for sustainable growth
How Shire will Contribute
c) Activate Growth Plan
Objectives
1.4 Ensure Shire is “open for business” and supports industry and business development
How Shire will Contribute
b) Identify and engage with future new business and industry opportunities
c) Realise potential of Council controlled or lazy land assets
ATTACHMENTS Circulated with the agenda is the following item relevant to this report:
- Correspondence from DAFWA confirming the three year extension to the lease (Doc Id: 86450) (Marked 9.3.2)
VOTING REQUIREMENT Simple majority
OFFICER RECOMMENDATION That Council agrees to extend the Farm Lease Agreement for the Badgingarra Research Station between the Shire of Dandaragan and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia for a further three years to the 28 February 2020 and that Council amend the Sublease with West Midlands Group to reflect this extension.
Attention Contractors
Wind Farms In The Dandaragan Region
Emu Downs – Waddi – Yandin- Warradarge – Parron – Marri – Yathroo and others
Personalised Accommodation and Meals Packages
Customised to suit your requirements
L.A.F.A style accommodation very limited availability
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From vast experience:
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