A 129-home estate - dubbed 'Griffith Hill Estate' - was given the green light by Griffith City Council during the most recent council meeting, but not without controversy.

Submissions regarding the proposal came in significant numbers, with council receiving 90 submissions about the development - but Griffith mayor John Dal Broi played down the submissions during Tuesday's council meeting, noting the majority of them were received at the beginning of the year and since then the developers have better informed the community as to the purpose of the development.

Griffith Aged Support Service co-ordinator Monica Beckman welcomed the development approval and said the estate will fill a gap in the city's market.

"There is a market now between people living at home and people going into an aged care facility," Ms Beckman said.

"These type of people would fit perfectly into over 55s lifestyle estates, because they have all the benefits that go along with one of those estates.

"To go to work every day and come home where there's a swimming pool, where there's a gym and a spa and you go away on holidays and your house is secured because it's a gated community - you can see all the benefits."

Ms Beckman said the construction of the estate will also ease Griffith's housing crisis, releasing up to 129 homes back onto the local real estate market and with the development being in Collina, the location will be appealing to many residents.

"It's a fantastic site, Collina is really a nice area - that's very appealing," Ms Beckman said.

"These lifestyle estates are popping up all over Australia ... at the beginning there was confusion but now that the Lincoln Place developers have cleared up all that confusion people understand I think - because it's new to Griffith.

"They've got that shopping centre there [in Driver] ... that's going to be handy - if you just forget and you need to run down and get milk and bread or whatever you can just go there and you don't have to come all the way into town."

READ MORE

Ms Beckman said one particular benefit residents will get is the comparative reduction of costs one will have when buying in and selling from the estate, compared to more traditional aged care facilities.

"If you sell your home and buy into this Griffith Hill Estate, then there's just a weekly fee," Ms Beckman said.

"When you decide to move out, you don't lose a portion of that and that's where it differs from retirement estates because you can lose up to 32 to 35 per cent when you decide to sell and leave."

Stage one of the development is planned to allow people to move into the estate by the first half of 2021, and Ms Beckman said she was "very excited" to watch the development take shape.

"They're [Lincoln Place] hoping people will be able to move into their own homes in the first half of next year," Ms Beckman said.

"I think everyone was looking forward to driving out there once the building gets started."