Northside ratepayers can expect to pay more next year

Ratepayers in some north Brisbane suburbs will pay nearly $70 extra next financial year, but there’s one suburb where residents will pay about $16 less.

Shorncliffe ratepayers can expect to pay an extra $1.83, on average, next financial year. Picture: Michelle Smith

RATEPAYERS in some north Brisbane suburbs will be paying nearly $70 extra this coming financial year under the city council budget handed down this week.

There will be increases in all northside suburbs but one — Bridgeman Downs, in which the average annual rates bill has dropped $16.30 (down 1 per cent).

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Ascot residents will be the hardest hit, paying on average an extra $69.34/year (an increase of 2.7 per cent) after council increased their rates 3.3 per cent.

Not far behind is Kedron with an average rates rise of $68.86 (4.1 per cent), while Grange will rise $66.22 (3.3 per cent), Stafford Heights $52.72 (3.3 per cent) and Wilston $50.75 (2.2 per cent).

Other big increases are in Boondall up $48.45 (4.1 per cent), Chermside $48.35 (3.8 per cent), Stafford $46.75 (3 per cent), Zillmere $44.18 (3.7 per cent), Newmarket $43.40 (2.1 per cent), Chermside West $43.06 (2.9 per cent), Kelvin Grove $42.51 (2.7 per cent), Everton Park $42.19 (2.9 per cent), Gordon Park $41.40 (2.5 per cent), Alderley $41.31 (2.3 per cent) and Carseldine $40.01 (3.2 per cent).

At the other end of the table, there are nine suburbs which can expect a rate increase of less than $10.

They are Brighton up $9.33 (0.7 per cent), Enoggera Reservoir $8.68 (0.5 per cent), Bracken Ridge $7.34 (0.6 per cent), Upper Kedron $6.16 (0.5 per cent), Sandgate $5.11 (0.3 per cent), Nudgee $4.16 (0.3 per cent), Herston $2.99 (0.2 per cent), Shorncliffe $1.83 (0.1 per cent) and Hendra $1.34 (0.1 per cent).

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Across Brisbane, ratepayers will be slugged on average an extra $40 this coming financial year after Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner handed down his first and last budget before voters head to the polls.

The budget included a 2.5 per cent average rate rise for owner-occupied residential properties — the same increase delivered by the council last year.

But it is still above Brisbane’s most recent inflation rate of 1.5 per cent and means the average ratepayer will have to cough up an extra $40 a year — or 77 cents a week.

The average increase to council fees and charges will also be 2.5 per cent.

Cr Schrinner said the budget outlined a raft of initiatives to deliver on his commitments to the community.

But Labor lord mayoral candidate Rod Harding said residents should be angry about the rate rises.

Average north Brisbane rate rises from 2018-29 to 2019-20 (and % increase)

Albion $28.78 (2 per cent)

Alderley $41.31 (2.3 per cent)

Ascot $69.34 (2.7 per cent)

Aspley $30.16 (2 per cent)

Bald Hills $31.40 (2.7 per cent)

Banyo $33.38 (2.4 per cent)

Boondall $48.45 (4.1 per cent)

Bowen Hills $20.50 (1.5 per cent)

Bracken Ridge $7.34 (0.6 per cent)

Bridgeman Downs down $16.30 (-1 per cent)

Brighton $9.33 (0.7 per cent)

Carseldine $40.01 (3.2 per cent)

Chermside $48.35 (3.8 per cent)

Chermside West $43.06 (2.9 per cent)

Clayfield $15.90 (0.8 per cent)

Deagon $19.90 (1.5 per cent)

Enoggera $26.67 (1.6 per cent)

Enoggera Reservoir $8.68 (0.5 per cent)

Everton Park $42.19 (2.9 per cent)

Ferny Grove $32.70 (2.5 per cent)

Fitzgibbon $24.54 (2.2 per cent)

Gaythorne $18.73 (1.3 per cent)

Geebung $14.97 (1.1 per cent)

Gordon Park $41.40 (2.5 per cent)

Grange $66.22 (3.3 per cent)

Hamilton $37.34 (1.7 per cent)

Hendra $1.34 (0.1 per cent)

Herston $2.99 (0.2 per cent)

Kedron $68.86 (4.1 per cent)

Kelvin Grove $42.51 (2.7 per cent)

Keperra $23.74 (1.7 per cent)

Lutwyche $27.24 (1.9 per cent)

McDowall $10.40 (0.7 per cent)

Mitchelton $34.98 (2.2 per cent)

Newmarket $43.40 (2.1 per cent)

Northgate $16.12 (1 per cent)

Nudgee $4.16 (0.3 per cent)

Nudgee Beach $10.38 (0.7 per cent)

Nundah $19.30 (1.4 per cent)

Sandgate $5.11 (0.3 per cent)

Shorncliffe $1.83 (0.1 per cent)

Spring Hill $20.31 (1.4 per cent)

Stafford $46.75 (3 per cent)

Stafford Heights $52.72 (3.3 per cent)

Taigum $15.92 (1.30 per cent)

Upper Kedron $6.16 (0.5 per cent)

Virginia $13.03 (0.9 per cent)

Wavell Heights $23.95 (1.4 per cent)

Wilston $50.75 (2.2 per cent)

Windsor $33.80 (1.8 per cent)

Wooloowin $17.87 (1 per cent)

Zillmere $44.18 (3.7 per cent)