Housing boom as half of new Queenslanders move to Logan
Half of the people moving to Queensland are settling down at Logan addresses, according to a housing study released this week, to help plan for the city’s population boom.
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Half of the people moving to Queensland are settling down at Logan addresses, according to a housing study released this week, to help plan for the city’s population boom.
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Suburbs such as Bahrs Scrub, Park Ridge, Logan Reserve and Holmview were carrying the load, even outstripping state government-conceived estates of Yarrabilba and Flagstone.
The city, which is 40 minutes south of Brisbane, recorded unprecedented population and housing growth over the past five years, chalking up an average annual population growth rate of 1.9 per cent.
There were 334,358 residents at June and, over the next 20 years, that figure will rise by 75 per cent when it is expected there will be 586,000 residents.
An additional 56,000 dwellings will be built by 2036 on top of the 26,000 new residential dwellings approved over the past 10 years.
Along with the massive population growth, Logan also chalked up a rise in development approvals which climbed over 3000 in 2019 and in August, approvals skyrocketed, exceeding the annual target.
Even rural residential growth has taken off across the city since 2015.
The study, also revealed that a typical Logan family, such as Jason, Jasmine and Tyson van Sleeuwan, lived in a detached house with at least three bedrooms and a double garage.
The family moved to Logan and now live in Yarrabilba, where they are renting while waiting for their new four-bedroom, two-garage house to be built.
The study showed a median weekly rent for a three-bedroom house in the city was $350 and nearly a quarter of residents were 14 years or younger.
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A further 12 per cent were 15 to 24 years old with 63 per cent still living at home, helping to account for the fact that there were two or more cars at 60 per cent of dwellings.
The housing study is the first stage of a three-part council strategy designed to help the council cope with the population boom.
The strategy includes measures to allow the council to adjust its planning scheme and development infrastructure charges.
It also looks at how the city will cater for small-lot housing and meet demand for single-bedroom houses.
Deputy mayor Jon Raven said population growth brought both opportunity and challenges.
He said the council strategy aimed to ensure suitable housing was built in appropriate locations across the city to cater for the massive rise in population which was expected to continue over the next decade.
“We have more than 8000 people moving into Logan every year and
“Logan has been carrying the lion’s share of growth under the Southeast Queensland Regional Plan,” he said.
“We are ahead of our growth targets which gives us the privilege to be able to design the future growth of our city in areas that make common sense.
“We will see higher density housing near public transport while protecting the larger residential blocks where people expect that more rural lifestyle.
“That’s really important for residents, who elect councillors across the city to know that we are being strategic and we are focusing people who want public transport on higher density housing.
“People who prefer a more typical quarter acre block lifestyle — they can have that too and our city can offer that to anyone who wants to move here, which is why one in two people moving to Queensland over the next 30 years will move to Logan,” Cr Raven said.