Plans lodged for 66-home estate to transform two rural Sunshine Coast blocks

The Sunshine Coast hinterland could see its newest residential community as developers lodge plans to convert two rural blocks into 66 house lots.

An artist’s impression of the entry to a proposed housing estate in Burnside.

Two rural blocks in the Sunshine Coast hinterland could soon be transformed into a housing estate under plans lodged with the council.

Danseur Pty Ltd director Noel Covey submitted a development application with the council on November 13 to reconfigure two lots at 165 and 171 Burnside Rd, Burnside, into 66 new residential lots ranging from 600sq m to 1430sq m.

The plan would also include three drainage reserves and one bushland reserve, in addition to new roads to service the estate.

Both blocks of land, which total 7.66ha, are owned by Danseur Pty Ltd, who will be required to pay an application fee of $106,322.50 to move the DA forward.

DA documents show the estate would be developed in two stages if approved. The first stage would include works on Burnside Rd and 34 new residential blocks, and the second stage would complete the estate with 32 more blocks.

The proposal includes 1.295ha set aside for three drainage reserves and a bushland reserve.

The works on Burnside Rd would see a major upgrade and widening of the road along the 320m of frontage to the proposed estate to include a driving lane and an indented parking lane.

The planned layout of the housing estate.

The plans include a two-metre wide shared path along Burnside Rd for pedestrians and cyclists, a bushland walking trail through one of the drainage reserves, an “entry statement wall”, and a “community meeting space”.

Developers plan to remove almost a quarter of a hectare of native vegetation, including 12 native trees, to make way for the residential lots, but an Ecological Assessment Report states this will be offset by planned rehabilitation via the proposed drainage and bushland reserves.

Documents state all lots are safe from flood risk, and the bushfire risk is considered “low” or “acceptable”.

All electrical and phone lines will be laid underground.

The plans also have six blocks earmarked as being suitable for future dual occupancy, or nine per cent, which exceeds pre-lodgement advice of keeping the number below five per cent.