Benefit from nature with Cradle Ridge Estate's natural surroundings, making it the ideal location for your home and home office. The estate is close to where pre-human life flourished approximately 2.3 million years ago. Here you can live with nature on your doorstep in an eco-friendly estate in Krugersdorp.
According to Kirsten Weir (2020), time spent in nature can improve our physical and psychological health and enhance cognition. Other benefits include:
Cognition and memory are affected, as evidenced by children in schools with a nearby park showing enhanced cognitive ability (Berman & Schertz, 2019). Nature also improves subjective well-being among people who struggle with low social connectedness and loneliness (Cartwright et al., 2018). Cartwright and his colleagues studied participants in the United Kingdom who struggled with social isolation, which is often a precursor to low well-being. However, the researchers found that participants with low social connectedness who had access to nearby nature reported high levels of well-being.
Several theories explaining the benefits of being in nature are being explored; suffice it to say that there are immense and diverse benefits to spending time in nature (Capaldi et al., 2015).
The estate was developed with the needs of busy, career-driven homeowners in mind. Ensuring that nature becomes part of the residential experience was essential to the design and layout, built on the understanding that many people work so hard they never switch off.
Cradle Ridge Estate seamlessly integrates nature into your life by bringing it to your doorstep. For this reason, the estate boasts large, ecologically designed gardens with space for walking, jogging, and cycling, all part of an aesthetically pleasing design. The eco-friendly houses have large private gardens, keeping you connected to nature through gardening and other outdoor activities, such as a family braai or playing with the children.
While on the subject of children and their high energy levels, Cradle Ridge Estate has a kiddie's play area with a BMX track, mini soccer field, jungle gyms, and a water fountain with adjoining braai areas. This means that mom and dad can connect while the children happily spend quality time in the fresh air. In the play area, children will spend time outdoors and get exercise in a natural environment. Sweet sleep awaits after a rough-and-tumble day of play!
Leisurely strolls, journaling on a secluded bench and watching the birdlife will also add to your wellbeing. The clever integration of the natural environment into the design will lure you away from your computer from time to time to enjoy a cuppa in your garden or take a lunchtime stroll through the estate's gardens. In addition to the stylish and effective natural environment within the estate, the surrounding area complements the experience with myriad nature-related opportunities beyond the walls.
The experts at Central Developments deliberately chose this Krugersdorp location for the estate because of its majestic vistas over the Cradle of Humankind and the variety of outdoor opportunities available in the vicinity. There is an abundance of outdoor activities available in the area. These include the Silverstar Casino, Cradlestone Mall, Ruimsig Golf Course and Country Club, the athletics stadium, various stables with horse riding, abseiling, hot-air ballooning, caving, 4×4 quad biking, rally trails, river rafting, hiking, and 4×4 driver training.
The Hartbeespoort Dam is only a short drive and offers water-related activities – think skiing and boating. For those who aren't adrenaline junkies, you are in the proximity of the world-renowned Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and a variety of experiences from art and eating in lush gardens to visits to the various nature reserves, such as the Bothongo Lion and Rhino Nature Reserve and the Cradle Nature Reserve. You can also have a picnic in a bubble in Muldersdrift or spend a restful day at the Hartbeespoort Dam.
Cradle Ridge Estate is situated in Krugersdorp, in the Cradle of Humankind, giving residents easy access to nature reserves, dams and outdoor activities while remaining close to Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Cradle Ridge Estate was designed around large private gardens and sustainable features, keeping residents connected to nature at home rather than only within shared communal spaces.
The estate offers ecologically designed communal gardens, walking, jogging and cycling paths, and a kiddie's play area with a BMX track, mini soccer field, jungle gyms, a water fountain and braai areas.
Yes. Cradle Ridge Estate reflects the kind of eco-friendly, nature-connected design that makes an area like Krugersdorp appealing, combining private green space with easy access to the Cradle of Humankind's natural attractions.
Cradle Ridge Estate is a well-established, largely built-out community, so availability varies and stands or homes may only come up periodically through resale. If you love this kind of nature-led lifestyle estate, Central Developments' current developments offer a similar living experience with homes and stands available now.
Cradle Ridge Estate shows what's possible when a residential community is designed around nature, wellbeing and family life, and that same thinking runs through Central Developments' current portfolio of lifestyle estates. If this is the kind of living environment you're after, explore Central Developments' current developments to find an eco-conscious estate with availability today.
