Developments
that evolve
place
Veridian co-creates socially healthy, ecologically regenerative, financially thriving developments across Australia, weaving together community, country and capital to build a future worth inhabiting.
Building what
the world needs
Veridian is a regenerative development company co-designing property projects, investment structures, and community governance with people and place across Australia. We believe social sustainability precedes environmental and economic sustainability, and we build accordingly.
Our ethos: to co-create socially healthy, ecologically sustainable, financially thriving housing and development that allows people at all stages of life to flourish and regenerate in their local communities and ecosystems. We have formulated principles for this, and we live by them on every project.
We are an emerging company, currently bringing three projects to life across Australia. Each is a living proof-of-concept for a different dimension of what regenerative development can be.
Three projects.
One vision.
Veridian is at the beginning of something significant. We have no completed developments yet. These three active projects are live, raising capital and co-designing with community right now.
Boambee Creek
Eco-Resort
There is a creek on the mid-north coast of NSW that has been known, cared for, and sung about for tens of thousands of years. The Gumbaynggirr people have held this country through every season, every drought, every flood. A relationship so deep it shaped the land itself. Boambee Creek Eco-Resort begins there: not with a development brief, but with a conversation about what this place asks of us.
What we are building is not an escape from the world, but a doorway into it. Sixty-two eco-suites woven into 5.6 hectares of freehold land, designed to make guests more present, not less.
The Sun Villages
Project
For most of human history, we built our homes together. Not out of ideology. Out of wisdom. The village was the original technology for human flourishing: a structure that turned proximity into care, investment into belonging, and neighbourliness into resilience.
Co-founded by Stina and Garry Kerans, who have been building toward this for over four decades, the project asks a simple question: what if the people who live somewhere also own it together? The Sun Villages model answers that question with a structure that is financially sound, socially rich, and designed to outlast us all.
The
Chrysalis
Somewhere in the Bellingen hinterland, something is beginning. Not a development. Not a project, in the conventional sense. A becoming.
Six people are entering a five-year journey on 1.5 hectares of some of the most quietly extraordinary land in NSW. They will grow food and learn to read weather. They will make decisions together and disagree and find their way through. They will hold land not as an asset to be extracted from, but as a living system to be tended. And in doing so, they will be tended in return.
The Chrysalis is our smallest project. It may be our most important.
Development
is never neutral
Every project either extracts from place or gives back to it. We have chosen, unequivocally, to give back, and to structure financial models that make giving back the most economically sensible choice.
We believe business can be a genuine force for planetary regeneration and human flourishing. Our projects prove it through working numbers, grounded design, and genuine community partnership, not ideology.
Social First
Social sustainability precedes environmental and economic sustainability. Every project begins with deep community co-design: genuine co-creation with the people of place, not box-ticking consultation.
Financial Integrity
Regenerative outcomes must be financially viable. We structure projects so the economics actively support the mission, using development returns, shared equity, and community finance to fund the work from within.
Place Responsiveness
We ask Country what it needs before imposing a design. Each project responds to the unique ecology, identity, and community of its specific bioregion, shaped by listening, not templating.
Replicable by Design
Everything we build is designed to be learned from, replicated, and improved. Our projects are living proof-of-concepts: blueprints for the regenerative economy that other communities can adopt and adapt.
“Regenerative development is the art of evolving living systems through the weaving of local patterns in place.”
The written
covenant.
Two documents underpin everything Veridian does. The Living Manifesto is our public declaration of belief, principle, and method. The Conscious Code of Conduct is the covenant every person who enters our core team reads, understands, and acknowledges before a single hour of work begins.
We do not merely operate by principles. We have written them down, committed to them in public, and asked every person who works with us to hold us to them. That is the work before the work.
The Living Manifesto
Eight sections. Seven First Principles. The Responsibility Pentad, the Vitality Hierarchy, Four Levels of Practice, Three Human Capacities, Three Pillars, and our Commitments in Practice. Closes with the Vow of Place.
The Conscious Code of Conduct
Three triads. Nine commitments. One unbreakable covenant. The Trinity, The Three Anchors, and The Three Horsemen of Doom. Read in full. Acknowledged without reservation. Signed before work begins.
The ecosystem
behind the work.
Veridian does not work alone. Every project we bring to life draws on a body of regenerative knowledge, economic architecture, and bioregional intelligence held by two partner organisations, each with a distinct and essential role in how we build, finance, and evolve our practice.
Living Places Institute
All the regenerative genius that Veridian sources from place, every insight about bioregional activation, community governance and the processes that make development genuinely alive, is held within the Living Places Institute. As a not-for-profit, the Institute exists to ensure that what works stays accessible. The Institute is the memory of the movement. The knowledge lives here, to be given away.
Regenerative Returns
A regenerative economic and finance community dedicated to expanding the potential of how conscious capital can help heal the living world. It is the economic imagination of the movement. It asks: what if money moved the way living systems do: circulating, compounding vitality, returning value to the places and people that generated it?
From vision
to activation
Our development process is grounded in place, transparent in finance, and rigorous in design. We work alongside communities, investors and Country, not on top of them. Every phase is open and shared.
Story of Place
Before any design begins, we ask Country and community what is needed. We understand the bioregion, its ecology, its people and its history, as the essential foundation for everything that follows.
Co-Design
Community members, traditional custodians, local experts, and investors co-design the project’s structure, governance, financial models, and physical form through genuine iterative engagement.
Capital & Approvals
We structure transparent investment vehicles such as SPVs, community debt and shared equity, and manage planning approvals with rigour. Investors receive clear, honest reporting at every milestone.
Activation
We build, launch and document, turning each project into a living example and replicable model for the next community ready to regenerate its place. Graduates become founders of the next chrysalis.
“Why can’t the building itself be a centre for regeneration? This building would not just be a centre for living systems and bioregionalism. It would be a living, beating heart of the regenerative movement in the region.”
Let’s build
something that lasts
Whether you’re an investor, a future farm steward, a landowner, a community member, or simply someone who wants to understand what’s possible, we welcome the conversation. All three projects have active pathways for involvement right now.
Michael McElligott
CEO, Veridian Developments
veridian.earth · regenerativereturns.com
livingplaces.institute
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Countries on which our projects are located, and their continuing custodianship and connection to culture, community, land, sea and sky. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, their Country.