Brisbane City Council has signed an agreement which refers to a land swap when development approval for land now owned by Cedar Woods Pty Ltd at The Gap “is” given.
But most of the land is currently zoned for rural or environmental purposes and the time for objections to an application by Cedar Woods to build a suburb of 1350 homes on the land does not expire until October 2.
Despite most of the land for the proposed new suburb being officially zoned as 'rural" and "environmental protection" or "environmental management", the agreement refers to it as "Development Land".
And Brisbane City Council has agreed to accept 91 hectares of the applicant’s land for park purposes “…based on a notional density to be developed on the Development Land of 1350 residential detached dwellings…”
But the Council's Ferny Grove/Upper Kedron Local Plan shows that in the relatively small area of land zoned as “emerging community” there are pockets of land designated for development on the basis of “very low density” or “low density” housing.
The statement that development approval will be given is contained in paragraph 2.5(a)(I) of the “Infrastructure Agreement for Institutional Investments for land at Upper Kedron” as signed by Brisbane City Council on February 27 2014.
It refers to the land swap of 91 hectares and says: “all infrastructure charges or contributions will be payable by the Applicant in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning Instrument applicable at the time a Development Approval in respect of a Development Application is given;”
There are no weasel words. The wording of the paragraph does NOT say “if” development approval is given. The agreement states categorically “at the time a Development Approval in respect of a Development Application is given.”
The agreement leaves the door open for an even bigger development. Plans submitted to the council show up to 1394 homes being built. Extra parkland will have to be given to the council if the number of homes exceeds 1350, the Council has demanded.
Institutional Investments Pty Ltd, named in the agreement’s title, was the company which owned the land in February this year.
It has since sold it to Huntsman Property Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Cedar Woods Pty Ltd which has applied to develop the land, which stretches for nearly two kilometres on Mt Nebo Road, starting at a point about 600 metres past Brisbane Forest Park’s headquarters.
A list of questions has been put to Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk with a request that, because objections to the planning application have to be lodged by the close of business on October 2, they be answered by the close of business tomorrow (Wednesday).
The questions include:
Who authorised the making of the agreement?
How was it possible for Brisbane City Council to agree to changing the designation of land zoned as “rural”, “environmental protection” and “environmental management” to “Development Land” as designated in the agreement contrary to Brisbane City Plan 2000, Brisbane City Plan 2014 and the Ferny Grove/Upper Kedron Local Plan?
On what basis did Brisbane City Council agree that up to 1350 dwellings could be built on the land in question?
But most of the land is currently zoned for rural or environmental purposes and the time for objections to an application by Cedar Woods to build a suburb of 1350 homes on the land does not expire until October 2.
Despite most of the land for the proposed new suburb being officially zoned as 'rural" and "environmental protection" or "environmental management", the agreement refers to it as "Development Land".
And Brisbane City Council has agreed to accept 91 hectares of the applicant’s land for park purposes “…based on a notional density to be developed on the Development Land of 1350 residential detached dwellings…”
But the Council's Ferny Grove/Upper Kedron Local Plan shows that in the relatively small area of land zoned as “emerging community” there are pockets of land designated for development on the basis of “very low density” or “low density” housing.
The statement that development approval will be given is contained in paragraph 2.5(a)(I) of the “Infrastructure Agreement for Institutional Investments for land at Upper Kedron” as signed by Brisbane City Council on February 27 2014.
It refers to the land swap of 91 hectares and says: “all infrastructure charges or contributions will be payable by the Applicant in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning Instrument applicable at the time a Development Approval in respect of a Development Application is given;”
There are no weasel words. The wording of the paragraph does NOT say “if” development approval is given. The agreement states categorically “at the time a Development Approval in respect of a Development Application is given.”
The agreement leaves the door open for an even bigger development. Plans submitted to the council show up to 1394 homes being built. Extra parkland will have to be given to the council if the number of homes exceeds 1350, the Council has demanded.
Institutional Investments Pty Ltd, named in the agreement’s title, was the company which owned the land in February this year.
It has since sold it to Huntsman Property Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Cedar Woods Pty Ltd which has applied to develop the land, which stretches for nearly two kilometres on Mt Nebo Road, starting at a point about 600 metres past Brisbane Forest Park’s headquarters.
A list of questions has been put to Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk with a request that, because objections to the planning application have to be lodged by the close of business on October 2, they be answered by the close of business tomorrow (Wednesday).
The questions include:
Who authorised the making of the agreement?
How was it possible for Brisbane City Council to agree to changing the designation of land zoned as “rural”, “environmental protection” and “environmental management” to “Development Land” as designated in the agreement contrary to Brisbane City Plan 2000, Brisbane City Plan 2014 and the Ferny Grove/Upper Kedron Local Plan?
On what basis did Brisbane City Council agree that up to 1350 dwellings could be built on the land in question?
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