Brisbane City Council ready to build Lutwyche park after property resumptions

Homeowners in a green-space strapped suburb will get a boost in property values when the council finally breaks ground on a park 10 years in the making.

Brisbane City Council has bought 97 Chalk St, outlined in red, the tenth and final property needed to build a new park in Lutwyche. Picture: Brisbane City Council

A BOOMING northside suburb will soon get a “long overdue” park — a boon for green space strapped residents and owners who can expect a lift in property values.

The council has voted to resume 97 Chalk St, Lutwyche, the final of ten properties required for a new park first flagged about a decade ago.

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It will be 6980 sqm, sandwiched between Wellington St and Chalk St.

LNP Cr David McLachlan (Hamilton) said the location had been identified as the location of the park nearly 10 years ago and the park was already designed.

“As soon as this block has been brought into Council ownership — I know that the plan is shovel ready, ready to go and put a great new park on the north side of the city,” he said.

The population in Lutwyche has grown from 2,801 recorded in the 2011 census to 3,454 in the 2016 census.

Ray White Wilston principal Alistair Macmillan lived in Lutwyche about 10 years ago.

“If you were to drive through it ten years ago and drive through it now, you wouldn’t be able to recognise the suburb,” he said.

He said the population had “increased dramatically” after the council upzoned the area, which exacerbated a lack of green space in the suburb.

“It’s definitely booming, for sure,” he said.

“There’s the western side of Gympie Rd, which backs on to Kedron Brook — offers fantastic parkland but on the eastern side, where this is going, there’s really limited parks.

“It is definitely overdue and very much required.

“It’s going to help with values, and be appealing to residents, tenants and owners, and any opportunity to increase green space is going to be advantageous.”