Logan Reserve seals its fate as growth hotspot with KDL’s 90-lot riverside housing estate
A 90-lot subdivision on prime riverside land south of Brisbane will seal the fate of a Logan suburb as a growth hotspot in the Gold Coast-Brisbane corridor.
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A 90-lot subdivision on prime riverside land south of Brisbane will seal the fate of a Logan suburb as a growth hotspot in the Gold Coast-Brisbane corridor.
KDL Property Group submitted its plans to develop the riverside housing estate at Logan Reserve in 2020, notifying Logan City Council the project involved using koala habitat land and would force the change of a planned urban connector road.
The development will include an extension of the council’s existing Glen Rd, classified as an urban connector, with all land to the east of the road extension remaining undeveloped.
A traffic report submitted to the council stated that the route for the planned urban connector through the subject site would have minor differences to what was in original plans for the area.
The report, by PMP Urbanists, expected the subdivision would generate about 72 vehicles per hour during weekday morning and afternoon peak hours.
But it said the development would not have detrimental operational or safety implications for the council’s surrounding road network.
“Therefore, there appears no reason to preclude approval of the proposed development, from a traffic and transport engineering perspective,” the report said.
Designs for the estate were put up for public consultation which closed last week.
Neighbouring property owners Asadullah Nazari and his brothers Mobarak Shah Nazari and Azizullah Attaei lodged protests as did neighbours Tracey and Mark Reader.
Both parties expressed concerns the “connector road” and the extension of Glen Rd no longer followed the original routes set out in the council’s Logan Development Plan 2018.
Asadullah Nazari said the development would “significantly disadvantage” any future development of his family’s property as the road extension would cut through his land.
“We believe that the future extension of Glen Road through our property will hinder any development opportunities,” he wrote.
“The area identified for this Urban Collector Road is a significant proportion of our block and it is unlikely that any future developer will want to utilise our block because of the severe terrain and the likely significant costs associated with the construction of the road.
“We believe that the current proposal understates the significant obstacles to be faced by a future developer if they are required to construct the Urban Collector Road, as currently proposed.”
Mr Reader, whose property adjoins the development site, agreed with his neighbours and said the new path for the road would hinder future development as it would run through financially or physically impractical terrain.
“In our opinion, the only options for the developer to ensure that the Glen Rd extension can materialise as required by the council, is either to revert back to the path as described in the Logan Reserve Plan in 2018 or for the developer to secure a strip of nearby land even though there is a powerline easement.”
The site, which runs down to the Logan River, has been earmarked for development for more than a decade with elaborate plans for the suburb including shops, cafes, parks and cycleways to cater for the population growth.
The 2022 estimated resident population for Logan Reserve and nearby Buccan was 10,757 with the 2021 census data showing Logan Reserve alone had a population of 7016.
The majority of people in the suburb, or 51.3 per cent, were women and the median age was 27 with 1757 families recorded at the last census.
Logan City Council is yet to approve the development.
Last week, the suburb, 45 minutes’ south of Brisbane, was named as Logan’s top destination for cashed-up property buyers from south of the border.
A recent report by property experts RPM Group found nearly half of all sales in Logan Reserve last year went to southerners.
Logan Reserve, Crestmead, Marsden and Yarrabilba were all given honourable mentions in RPM’s SEQ Property Research Report for the December quarter.
The RPM report also revealed that Logan held three of the top five positions for housing approvals in 2022.
Logan Reserve and Chambers Flat were the engine room for housing construction growth in southeast Queensland in 2022 with the combined suburbs recording 790 housing approvals in 2022, edging out Landsborough in Brisbane’s north which recorded 682 approvals.
Boronia Heights-Park Ridge took out fourth place with 630 housing approvals and nearby Greenbank-North Maclean ranked fifth with 540 approvals.
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