Chaseley Park: Residents react to new community housing project in Crows Nest north of Toowoomba

Residents have been broadly positive in their reactions to a new community housing project slated for a small town north of Toowoomba.

Crows Nest Community Solutions Ltd directors Jeff Close and Baden Brown survey the plans for a new community and affordable housing project at the end of Creek Street in Crows Nest, dubbed Chaseley Park.

Residents are hoping Crows Nest’s new community housing project will address key issues once it’s completed, with many hopeful for good outcomes.

Crows Nest Community Solutions revealed last week it was ready to move ahead soon with the initial stages of Chaseley Park, a housing development slated for 3ha of land off Creek St near the edge of town.

The project’s first stage, which has the capacity for 60 people, will be focused on allowing older residents to remain in town to “age in place”, as well as catering to people with disabilities by creating fully-accessible dwellings.

Crows Nest Community Solutions has been cleared to start work on a major new affordable housing project in the Toowoomba region town.

Stage 1A, estimated to cost upwards of $2.5m, will include the required civil works as well as two two-bedroom duplexes and two two-bedroom houses.

It has been partially funded by an ongoing partnership between CNCS’s parent organisation Progressive Community Crows Nest (PCCN) and Heritage Bank (soon to be renamed People First Bank).

On the Chaseley Park Facebook page, the group made it clear the project would not compete with existing services in Crows Nest.

“Chaseley Park is being built for the community with the intent to house local people who are being priced out of the rental market or have to relocate as the property they are in does not allow them to age in place,” the post said.

“CNCS has consulted with service providers within the region who are in support of this development.

“Chaseley Park will not replicate or take away from organisations within the community, they will be an addition to the region.”

Anyone with questions about the project should email [e-mail].

Here’s what readers of The Chronicle had to say:

Issues need to be addressed

Patricia Richter

Hope flora and fauna watched so no total destruction destroys their habitat. Happens too often.

Boyd Jeffery

(In response to Patricia Richter) The current site is 98 per cent grassed area.

Cameron Zell

Would be great if council didn’t take forever to approve stuff.

Rai Akers

Hopefully they intend to address issues like transport. Not to mention recognise “disability access” is more than ramps.

‘Go for it’: Mixed responses to proposal

Scrubbed out

Good plan fellas, go for it, and if need be get some investors for separate buildings as you go.

Jill Jones

Believe it when I see it.