First 200 homes to have sewage trucked out of multibillion-dollar Shoreline Development

The sewage from up to 200 homes will be carted away by truck during development of one of the Redlands Coast’s biggest residential projects.

THE sewage from up to 200 homes will be carted away by truck during development of one of the Redlands Coast’s biggest residential projects.

Lendlease Communities has not yet confirmed a plan for its sewerage system at its Redland Bay development Shoreline at 275-495 Serpentine Creek Rd however it will be allowed to truck out sewage for its first 199 homes while a proper sewage treatment facility was under construction.

The tankering of sewage – or sealing of any of the 199 lots – cannot, however, happen until after plans for the sewage treatment facility are approved through Redland City Council.

By the 200th lot, a functioning sewerage facility must be in operation.

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Current plans suggest the tankering site, where the sewage would be extracted, would be at the proposed location of the final sewerage pump station in the southern end of a parkland promised by the project.

Plans for Lendlease’s Shoreline Development at Redland Bay.

Councillor Julie Talty (Div 6) said the council had queried concerns about odour coming from the site and that Lendlease was considering alternative locations.

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“Lendlease … have told me verbally that they are investigating … moving the point of extraction, where the trucks would be, to the other side of the road to an area of the estate which won’t be developed till the end of the process, which will then remove the concern of the odour,” Cr Talty said.

Cr Tracey Huges (Div 8) spoke against the idea, calling for proper plans for the pump station to be presented.

“I feel it’s totally inappropriate to allow this to go forward until we have a solution to the sewerage systems … I feel it’s false to let the developer go out and do the work that they want to do when we don’t know what the end result will be,” Cr Huges said.

“Until we can have clarity around what’s happening with the sewer at Shoreline I’m very uncomfortable to support it.”

However a planning officer called to address the meeting explained the process for the sewerage system was already part of the preliminary approval and infrastructure agreements.

Councillor Mark Edwards (Div 5) said it had been made clear there would not be any sealing of the plans until a sewerage network strategy was finalised.

“There’s a lot of money to be spent here so I would doubt there would be any progress on this until that’s resolved first,” Cr Edwards said.

Redland Bay’s Shoreline development will turn farmland into residential lots. Picture: Paula Shearer

Councillor Paul Bishop (Div 10), who ultimately voted against the motion, said the pre-existing agreement meant councillors had little choice but to support the move.

“This is a due process that is in accord with the planning requirements and previous decisions made by council,” Cr Bishop said.

“My view is that this is out of sequence … I find myself in a position where I am unable to do anything other than the officer’s recommendation (to allow the development to proceed) … so I will need to support it, but I wish we didn’t have to.”

The Shoreline community, which has already been almost a decade in the making, will likely take another 15 to 20 years to complete, with about 3000 homes expected to be occupied by up to 10,000 people on completion.

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