Developer Planning Pace unveils plan for Tin Can Bay units

Housing diversity is on the menu in the Gympie region with a developer unveiling plans for a 12-unit complex in a part of the region where apartments are surprisingly rare.

Developer Planning Place has lodged a proposal with Gympie Regional Council to build 12 units at Tin Can Bay, at Tuna Way.

Tin Can Bay’s housing options are likely to be diversified if a new plan to build a string of attached units is given the go ahead by Gympie Regional Council.

Developer Pace Planning has unveiled its proposal to construct a 12 unit complex on vacant land at (and split by) Tuna Way, about 100m away from Tin Can Bay Rd near the entrance to the town.

The block has been owned by AGM Pastoral since 2016, CoreLogic online property records show.

The plan is to split the land into nine lots.

Eight of the blocks will be on the northern side of road, ranging from 350sq m to 412sq m.

The final block will encompass the bulk of the land on the southern side of the road.

The units are proposed to be built on vacant land at Tuna Way, near Tin Can Bay’s entrance.

Twelve units are planned to be built on this final block.
Each of the two-storey units will include a garage, living room, kitchen, and outdoor patio on the ground floor.

The top floor will include either three or four bedrooms, bathroom and a media room.

The application does not outline what is proposed to be built on the eight blocks on the northern side of Tuna Way.

If approved by the council’s planning department the proposal would boost the number of units on the market in the coastal town, where 2021 census data shows more than three quarters of the properties (76 per cent) were detached homes.

Each of the two-storey units will include a garage, living room, kitchen, and outdoor patio on the ground floor.

Only 13.6 per cent of the town’s properties were semi-detached, townhouses, flats or apartments.

This was compared to rates of 24.2 per cent of homes across Queensland, and 26.8 per cent across Australia.

The rate of high density housing is not unique for the Gympie region, which across its entirety is well below the state and national figures.

“Gentle density” housing, including triplexes and townhouses, was identified by the state government at an October 2022 housing summit as necessary to help end the housing crisis gripping the Wide Bay and Queensland.