ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the situation of older people who have moved to the post-traditional successor to the Australian suburb, the outer suburban ‘master planned community’ (MPC). The purpose of the paper is to discuss the needs and expectations of older residents for supportive community of place, in contrast to the needs and motivations of the property developer in ‘creating community’. The new MPC of Springfield Lakes on the outskirts of Brisbane will provide the backdrop for the paper; and qualitative data from interviews with older residents of Springfield Lakes and the staff of the development company, Delfin Lend Lease, will be used to illustrate the possible tensions and contradictions that arise from a strategy of planning for diversity. Springfield Lakes is emerging as a community that accommodates multigenerations, but there are questions about whether this strategy of diversity is in the interests of those older residents who might not exercise the agency to construct their own model of community in their Third Age.