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Ipswich region to need 116,000 new homes by 2031
THE number of new homes in the Ipswich local government area will treble over the next 20 years if the State Government's forecasts are right. Its draft regional plan for southeast Queensland, released yesterday, predicts that the Ipswich region will need 116,000 new dwellings by 2031. Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale's reaction was to declare: "Bring it on. "Ipswich wasn't ready 10 years ago, but we are now." The new regional plan, which will be open to public comment until April next year, proposes that Brisbane's western corridor be the area's next major population growth. Premier Anna Bligh said: "This plan identified enough land to provide the 735,500 new houses and units we will need to house our expected population through to 2031. "The focus will remain the western corridor where the population will expand twice as fast as Brisbane and the coastal areas each year on average." The new draft plan has substantially higher housing growing projections than the original plan drawn up in 2004, which predicted that southeast Queensland would need only 575,000 new homes over the following two decades. The Government now predicts that southeast Queensland's population will climb from 2.8million in 2006 to 4.4million in 2031. Strategies to accommodate growth include increasing the density of urban redevelopment by requiring new residential projects to achieve a minimum net dwelling yield of 15 dwellings a hectare. New developments close to transport hubs will have at least 30 dwellings a hectare. At the same time, the draft plan has made only small adjustments to the overall urban footprint, but it has also identified land that could be included after further investigation. Ms Bligh said that under the new plan, the area of land off limits for development increase from 1.88million hectares to 1.93million hectares. Areas added to the protected list include conservation areas in Brisbane, Springfield and the southern Moreton Bay islands. A spokesman for Council of Mayors chairman and Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said councils had worked in "close partnership with the State Government" for the plan. "We now urge the community to have their say ... to make it an even better document," he said. "The consultation is an important process to explain to the community why it's necessary to have transport oriented developments and infill targets to prevent effects like urban sprawl and to enable us to continue to save bushland from development." http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,27574,24765643-3102,00.html |
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