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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 7d

Not the most exciting post but our AGM is coming up and we're stoked to announce our guest speaker is ABC's own Kenji Sato!

Come along, have a beer and hearwhat it's like being the only journo to ride a bike to pressers.

12:30pm Saturday 25 September at the Burrow in West End.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

New parking changes means new apartments in West End don’t have to build parking. It’s likely in a few years it’ll be more like Newstead and the Valley where only a small % of homes have a car

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

If you'd like to join our impromptu submission drive for more homes where people want to live, put one in here. services.brisbane.qld.gov.au/online-servi...

Have your say on a development application

services.brisbane.qld.gov.au

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

One of our local volunteers was livid when they saw the poster up.

They made a few changes.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

It's all the same complaints.

It's too tall. It's making the area unsafe. It isn't in the neighbourhood character. It's unaffordable. It's taking away street parking. It'll make congestion worse.

Fear of change. Fear of shadows. Fear of the mildest inconvenience.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

A few months ago, the local councillor organised a community meeting to discuss the project. Between that and this latest push from neighbouring residents, this project has received nearly TWO HUNDRED submissions against it.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

Stockwell's project adaptively reuses the heritage factory facades around the corner, adds greenspace and delivers 132 new homes and 2 storeys of retail and commercial space in one of Brisbane's highest demand areas.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

A block away are two parks, sports fields and Boundary Street shops and another block away is West Village Shopping Centre.

Within a fifteen minute walk is South Bank, the Cultural Centre, Brisbane State High and the CBD.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

If you don't know West End too well, here's the local area. The site's currently a carpark, gym and warehouse.

Across the road is newly expanded state school and the new police station.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Aug 28

Some West End residents are railing against a medium density development in their inner city suburb, just minutes from the CBD.

It's sad that they're doing it at one of our favourite bars too. 😭

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

We're going to be advocating to the Commission to end Brisbane’s “townhouse ban”, remove restrictive zoning and character regulations that ration high-amenity land and remove minimum lot sizes, car parking minimums, excessive setbacks, height restrictions and floor area ratios.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

And nearly 70% of residential zoned land within a kilometre of train stations or six kilometres of the CBD make it effectively impossible or outright ban building townhouses or even small apartment blocks like Brisbane’s iconic six-packs!

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

In fact, character restrictions apply to nearly 13% of all of Brisbane’s residential zoned land, and the majority of residential lots in the highly desirable neighbourhoods within 6 kilometres of the CBD.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

Council policies on height limits, lot minimums and character protections in residential zoning all severely limit the developable land to a handful of large sites, particularly in the inner city where transport access is barely relevant for access to employment.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

This in turn drives up the cost of housing, punishes new residents with hours-long commutes away from their families, and costs taxpayers billions in subsidising the cost of infrastructure to be built that already exists in the inner city.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

Brisbane has remarkably restrictive planning regulations for most of our city. This land rationing drives up the cost of housing and pushes it to the fringes of our city.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jul 31

The Queensland Productivity Commission's monumental 324 page interim report into construction productivity, exhaustively diagnosing the manifold problems with Queensland’s building and construction industry.

This is the kind of ambitious reform we need to reverse Brisbane's housing crisis.

Construction productivity - Queensland Productivity Commission

The QPC has been asked by the Queensland Government to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the productivity of the Queensland construction sector.

qpc.qld.gov.au

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · Jul 12

It was great chatting to @ginarush.bsky.social for today’s ABC Long Read. Our little ragtag crew at @greaterbrisbane.org have been trying to spin a new story about how our city could work. More than Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane’s been fixated on a suburban lifestyle that’s not sustainable anymore.

YIMBYs vs NIMBYs in the battle for your backyard

The Yes In My Backyard movement is lobbying for denser cities and more housing in places people want to work and live and YIMBYs want these homes built yesterday. But the NIMBYs haven't given up yet.

www.abc.net.au

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Apr 15

We’re proud to be part of the national team who brought these shovel-ready policies together for our Brick Book.

For a “housing election”, it’s been very light on for policies that would actually boost housing supply.

So here’s six.

Abundant Housing Network Australia @abundanthousing.org.au · Apr 15

🧱 THE BRICK BOOK — A federal path to a nation that builds

It's time for the Commonwealth to step up and shape how Australia uses its most precious asset: land.

THE BRICK BOOK lays out 6 big ideas to help fix housing—and make Australia a nation that builds again.

Thread 🧵

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Feb 17

A Greater Brisbane? In this economy?
Join us tonight 6pm, at Isles Lane in Post Office Square for a snack, chat and social, all welcome.

Greater Brisbane Urbanists meetup - Isles Lane in Post Office Square
6pm 18/02/25
10a/300 Queen St, Brisbane City QLD 4000

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jan 30

A handful of km from the city.

Generally out of the flood zone.

It's even the home of Torbreck!

You could not name a better suburb for apartments.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Inner-city home owners say apartments are ‘inappropriate’ for their suburb

Urban planners say inner city Brisbane desperately needs more apartments, but local home owners are fighting against a proposal to protect their neighbourhood's "charm".

www.abc.net.au

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jan 16

Water-sensitive urban design isn't just building flood-resistant apartments and rewilding stormwater drains.

It's also unlocking urban land that isn't at risk for more intensive development.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jan 16

So much of Brisbane is on a flood plain - and for many renters or first home buyers, your choice is to live somewhere flood prone and convenient or hours' commute from your friends, family or work.

Meanwhile, all our inner city hills are locked down in low density character zones for well-off.

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution | Nicki Hutley

With the outlook for risk of fire, flood and other disasters increasing, this is not a problem that will go away

www.theguardian.com

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Jan 1

Dorina and Hal are both right that we need to put making housing more affordable before NIMBY’s self-interest and we need to build more medium density housing in Brisbane.

And the best way we can do both is by overturning Brisbane’s outdated and exclusionary low-density character housing zones.

Lower home values a fair price for more housing, planner says

Apartment owners in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia fear a new development nearby will lower their property prices, but urban planners say housing affordability is more important.

www.abc.net.au

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · Dec 10

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM on Sunday! It's been a big year for our volunteers!

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