Rivendell's services and facilities are planned to include:
- Twelve acres of lush sub-tropical landscaping:
- All houses opening out onto a park
- Facilities for relaxation and recreation
- Traffic free pedestrian amenity
- Village Square with:
- Restaurant
- Café
- Guest House
- Retail stores
- Rented commercial space
- Meeting and function spaces
- Interpretation / Education centre
- Twenty-eight acre commercial Organic Farm
- Common portal for broadband Internet access
- High speed LAN providing internal communications including:
- Free internal phone calls,
- Free internal E-mail and data transfer,
- Common Receiver - no ugly forest of antennas and satellite dishes
- Solar Cogeneration Plant providing:
- Solar electricity with UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)
- Solar hot water
- Reticulated potable water from on-site rainwater harvesting
- On-site waste-water treatment
- Reticulated recycled water for toilet flushing and gardens
- Gas reticulated from a bulk storage cylinder
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