Brisbane City Council dismisses concerns about traffic impacts of high rise development near busy Everton Park intersection

Brisbane City Council has dismissed concerns about the traffic impacts of a huge development it has approved near a busy intersection at Everton Park.

An artists impression of the Rogerscorp proposal for 35 Woolworths St, Everton Park.

Brisbane City Council has dismissed concerns about the traffic impacts of a huge development it has approved near a busy intersection at Everton Park.

The Monarc development, on Woolworths St and South Pine Rd (between Woolworths and Harvey Norman), will consist of five buildings, four eight storeys high, and contain 292 apartments and 432 residential parking spaces.

Public submissions to the council raised fears the development, proposed by Rogerscorp, would add to congestion, especially on South Pine Rd.

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The site is also near the intersection of South Pine Rd and Stafford Rd which is so busy the State Government is spending $26 million to build a partial bypass to take some traffic away from it.

But in the approval, council planners said the project would not have significant impacts on local roads.

They said it had been considered by the (State) Planning Department in relation to impacts on the state controlled road — South Pine Rd, where no objections to the development have been raised.

The department had also set conditions,” the planners said.

“Overall, it is considered that the scale of the development and the resulting level of traffic movements meet the intent of a high density development on the site and would not create unacceptable levels of traffic congestion or compromise the local road safety.”

The Monarc application took almost 18 months to pass through council after an ambitious first proposal, which included two 16-storey towers, was rejected.

The approved development will have 231 two-bedroom apartments, 59 with three bedrooms and two with one bedroom.

Rogerscorp had initially proposed 378 units when it first lodged the plans with the council in January 2018.

Besides the council planners stating the initial application was too high for the location and the commercial space was detrimental to nearby businesses, they identified another 20 issues.

After making numerous changes, not the least reducing the scale of the development, council earlier this month approved the development.

Rogerscorp has indicated it may take a decade before the project is fully realised.

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