Tarragindi Bowls Club update: RetireAustralia lodge DA and 315 submissions come bowling in
HUNDREDS of submissions have been received for a controversial redevelopment of a bowls club on Brisbane’s southside. Find out why residents are concerned here.
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MORE than 315 submissions have already been lodged about the proposed redevelopment of the Tarragindi Bowls Club.
The development application, by RetireAustralia, was lodged on July 8, and requests 95 units over three to six levels at the site.
The current bowls clubhouse would be replaced by a new clubhouse and green.
A community park also features in the development. Residents have protested against the development since December last year, when the developer issued a flyer in the mail detailing its plans.
After numerous community meetings, residents rallied together and formed the Tarragindi Residents’ Alliance, with neighbour to the proposed development, Liza Wieland, as president. Ms Wieland said she had at least another 150 submissions she had collected from the community ready to be submitted to the council.
She said it was important to note no one was objecting to the club continuing.
“We don’t want to see the demise of the bowls club,” Ms Wieland said.
“But it comes back to the same old, same old — it is far too dense and far too high.”
City Planning chairman Julian Simmonds said the council had done an initial assessment of the application and written a letter to RetireAustralia.
RetireAustralia has up to six months to respond to the council’s letter and submit any amended designs.
A RetireAustralia spokeswoman said the bowls club was under “significant financial pressure” and the development would provide a “financial lifeline” for it.
Brisbane City Council has not launched any formal community consultation process at the site.
TIMELINE TO DATE
■ October: Tarragindi Bowls Club development flyer issued in letterbox drop to residents
■ November: Community holds a protest at the club
■ April: Tarragindi Residents’ Alliance, headed by Liza Wieland, is incorporated
■ July 8: 95-unit application lodged by RetireAustralia
■ September 21: The council requests more information from the developer
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