Work to start on 3000-house estate despite no sewage and road bottleneck
Work is set to start on one of the largest southside housing estates despite no approved plans for a sewage system
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WORK on a housing estate for 10,000 people is set to begin despite no sewerage network for the project.
Carbrook and Redland Bay residents have been put on notice that earthmoving works for the 3000-lot Shoreline housing estate will start before the end of April.
Developer Lendlease this week sent letters to residents living near the proposed Redland Bay Shoreline estate, which has received preliminary planning approval with conditions.
Land on the west of Serpentine Creek Rd, opposite Scenic Rd, at Redland Bay will be cleared and a set of traffic lights installed.
The road works will be less than 100m from where Redland Bay woman Mersina Axiom was killed in a horror road smash last month.
Candidates in this month’s local government elections, from both Logan and Redland, have vowed to challenge the project and its lack of adequate infrastructure including no sewerage plant for 4000 houses and one-lane road to cope with an.
Logan Division 10 candidate Bruce Laker called for all development approvals older than a year to be reviewed.
Mr Laker, a former town planner, said he was concerned the developer was proceeding with earthworks when there was no sewage and waste approvals.
He also said he was concerned about traffic and plans for another set of traffic lights on the busy Cleveland-Redland Bay Rd.
“Residents want to stop this company and Redland City Council destroying habitat and the local environment, especially the proposed sewerage treatment works slated for a pristine area affecting hygiene for local residents,” Mr Laker said.
State and local government conditions stipulate that Shoreline has to upgrade eight intersections on the busy Cleveland-Redland Bay Rd as the traffic increases with the number of houses.
Internal road works have to be completed before houses are built and the Scenic Rd intersection is inside the Shoreline boundary.
Logan Division 10 candidate Josh Hanbidge said he was concerned about the “obvious increase in traffic for Division 10 and the lack of road infrastructure upgrades”.
“My primary interest, and that of many locals I speak with, is the blatantly inappropriate placement of the waste facility and a failure of Logan City Council to stand up for impacted residents,” Mr Hanbidge said.
Redland council’s Cr Julie Talty said her council approved the road design and a park where sewage would be treated for the first stage of the project in December.
Cr Talty said under the conditions, Shoreline has to “come up with” an approved sewerage plan prior to the first lot being developed.
She also said Lendlease did not have to build the treatment plant until 200 houses were built.
Before then, the sewage for the first 200 houses will be pumped under Cleveland-Redland Bay Rd to a massive sewage tank on land at the corner of Scenic Rd and Redland Bay Rd, where trucks will take it to a sewerage plant at Mt Cotton.
Cr Talty said pumping out sewage into trucks was a smelly process.
The Department of Infrastructure has said its hands were tied due to preliminary approvals.
Lendlease said on completion, Shoreline would be home to about 10,000 people, which is larger than Yarrabilba, currently home to 8000 people.
Lendlease said 25 per cent of the 262 hectare Shoreline site would be parks and open spaces.
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