City Beat Confidential: Tenant sought for Old Bishopsbourne

A church is looking for a co-location partner at a historic Brisbane inner-city site handy to the Milton brewery.

The Anglican Church is casting a net in search of a co-location partner for the site of the heritage-listed Old Bishopsbourne, which is tucked away on 3.8ha next to Milton’s iconic XXXX Brewery.

Old Bishopsbourne in on the grounds of St Francis Theological College and was built in 1868 as a residence for the first Anglican Bishop of Brisbane. It is adjacent to the heritage-listed Chapel of the Holy Spirit.

While the Anglican Church Southern Queensland will maintain ownership of the St Francis

Theological College site, co-location ideas are being explored to better use the property and to raise revenue to preserve the site’s precious heritage.

Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Dr Phillip Aspinall said an expression-of-interest process was being undertaken to identify potential co-location partners with the community in mind.

“We are retaining ownership of the college and its site. The expressions of interest process is

about seeing what good ideas are out there to better use the site in co-operation with potential

partners,” he said.

“Any co-location partners and projects we choose will have a community purpose and be in

keeping with our values.”

Knight Frank is running the EOI process.

Old Bishopsbourne on the grounds of St Francis Theological College in Milton

SUSTAINABLE BREKKY

Manana Pastoral manager and general counsel Jane Campbell will be the guest speaker at the second Professional Women’s Network Breakfast for the year in May

Campbell operates Manana Pastoral with her husband, Ian and is focused on sustainable agriculture.

She is a strong advocate for farmers, and environmental issues and will share her story of being in agribusiness for over two decades.

The Campbell’s co-founded Barambah Organics in 2002, and have been passionate about the benefits of consuming organic produce throughout Australia, and overseas.

Campbell was a former secondary modern history teacher, and a part time private pilot. In October 2020, the Campbells sold a major share of Barambah Organics, and leased their three organics dairy farms, and a grain property, to a private equity group.

The breakfast is scheduled for Wednesday, May 11, at the Arts Centre Foyer, St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School, in Ascot. Ticketing closes on May 2.

Jane Campbell with her award-winning cheeses

GREY NOMADS’ HAVEN

An absolute-beachfront new caravan park on a prime parcel of land between Bundaberg and Gladstone that will be fully operational next year has come on the market.

The freehold of Rules Beach Caravan Park’s 196 campsites on 3.4ha is being sold through an expressions of Interest campaign.

ResortBrokers’ Trudy Crooks said it was the only caravan park on the market which has been fully developed as a turnkey operation.

“It has been a labour of love for the past 20 years for the developer John Callanan of Tareeda Properties,” she said.

The infrastructure build of the civil works, including sealed bitumen roads is finished and lagoon pool, camp kitchen, toilet block, cafe, office and manager’s residence will be built this year. The developer aims to have the park fully operational in time for the 2023 grey nomad season.

The caravan park is part of a multi-use plan for the whole site which includes 15 beachfront lots, 14 two-bedroom freehold villas, and a rural service centre which could provide further opportunities for the incoming buyer.

In June 2020, they opened several glamping tents to test the market which proved successful, fetching $300 a night.

Named after one of the early pioneering families in the area Rules Beach is the only beach left on the Discovery Coast on which you can legally drive a four-wheel drive vehicle.

Rules Beach caravan park on the Discovery Coast.