A fourth developer has joined the queue to create new housing estates in Caboolture West
Thousands more houses have been proposed for an already massive greenfields site north of Brisbane that will offer 27,000 homes – more than Hervey Bay and Gladstone – new schools, shopping centres and more.
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A LARGE piece of the Caboolture West puzzle has been revealed with around 2000 new homes proposed for a single pocket of land.
Gold Coast company Baycrown is the latest in a growing list of developers hoping to establish housing estates on land between Caboolture River Rd and the Caboolture River.
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The site is expected to become the first stage of a much larger project to develop the land known as Caboolture West with 27,000 new homes – more than Hervey Bay (25,707, and Gladstone (15,793) according to 2016 ABS census data – new schools, shopping centres and more.
The Caboolture West Local Plan is an area 5km west of Caboolture and Morayfield about 3480 ha in size.
It is bounded by the D’Aguilar Hwy to the north, Caboolture River Rd to the south and low hills to the west of Old North Rd.
Once fully realised over the next 40 years, the $9.5 billion development is expected to be home to almost 69,000 people and contain 17,000 jobs.
Census data suggests that Caboolture West will be bigger than provincial cities like Maryborough, Gladstone and Hervey Bay.
It could also feature more homes than Caboolture itself.
Baycrown has lodged plans for a 634-lot development on two parcels of land it owns at 531 Caboolture River Rd (near Forestpark Place) and 35 Craig Road.
The vast majority of the lots proposed in a concept plan were between 400-450 sqm, with some as small as 300 sqm and a handful above 580 sqm.
The Baycrown estate provides the link between three other development proposals in the same area.
Together, the four applications covered about 160ha and contained about 2000 lots.
All four were from different developers — Baycrown, Villa World, Orchid Developments, and Foreverlen/Lenvest Holdings — which have employed the same planning consultants, Peak Urban.
Peak Urban has proposed a Structure Plan across all four sites known as Neighbourhood Development Plan 1 (NDP1): Phase 1.
The plan suggests future roads, housing areas, environmental corridors and parkland and provides connections across the whole site.
All of the applications for this area have offered little more than a swath of high density housing, though a strip of land to the north running along the Caboolture River would remain an ecological corridor.
There were also a few small parks scattered among the sea of houses, as per Moreton Bay Council’s requirements, but no commercial areas had been put forward as yet.
The nearest existing supermarket is a small Foodworks on Parkridge Ave, about 2km away, and Morayfield train station is about 6km away.
Minimbah State School and Morayfield State High School are the nearest primary and high schools.
The developments claim to offer a “lot choice and affordability for different lifestyle choices and life stages”, yet very few of the proposed 2000 lots were expected to be larger than 600 sqm.
Traffic from the estates would likely travel along Caboolture River Rd or Walkers Rd in order to get to the Morayfield town centre and from there, the Bruce Highway.
This latest application from Baycrown means all but one parcel of land within the NDP1: Phase 1 map is subject to a development application for high density housing.
The site has largely been cleared of trees and had been used as farmland or stables.
Another much larger proposal for Caboolture West, from AV Jennings, has scope for 8700 new dwellings on 410ha of land running along the eastern side of Old North Rd, between the Caboolture River and Bellmere Rd.
Though this was expected to be more a more longer term project.
All of the applications would be assessed by Moreton Bay Council and a council spokesman said there was no time frame for issuing any development approval.
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