Restumping in Clifton Springs, Geelong

Clifton Springs: houses, ground and history

Clifton Springs began as a country club estate: in 1959 developers bought 1,300 acres for 5,000 house lots, and about half had sold by 1962. The City's 2008 coastal management plan describes landslide risk in the coastal cliffs, and the slide at The Dell first moved after 138 mm of rain in April 2001. Nearly every home here is a separate house. We'll connect you with a registered restumper.

• In 1959 developers Willmore and Randell bought 1,300 acres at Clifton Springs for a country club estate of 5,000 house lots, and about half the lots had sold by 1962, according to Victorian Places.

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• The City's Clifton Springs Coastal Management Plan (2008) says the Fyansford Formation and Older Volcanics in the coastal cliffs are particularly prone to landslides, and that runoff from urban development and irrigated gardens, open space and the golf course may have sped up landslides by saturating the sodic clays until they lose strength.

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• A geotechnical case study for the Corangamite CMA and the City of Greater Geelong records that the landslide at The Dell, Clifton Springs, first moved after 138 mm of rain in April 2001, and the area was closed to the public from July 2002 to December 2006.

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• At the 2021 Census, 98.2% of occupied private dwellings in Clifton Springs were separate houses.

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Clifton Springs had 7,646 residents at the 2021 Census (ABS QuickStats).