Toowoomba council to assess new 23-lot rural residential subdivision in Top Camp
A key growth area just outside Toowoomba continues to be a popular space for developers, with plans for a new rural residential subdivision put forward to the council.
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Even more land in the corridor south of Toowoomba has been slated for development, with an application being lodged for new lots measuring upwards of 4000 sqm.
Developers Andrew Muller and Brendan Curr lodged plans last week with the Toowoomba Regional Council for the new “rural residential subdivision” on 18.5 hectares of land along Tranter Street in the localities of both Mount Rascal and Top Camp.
The land would be transformed into 23 new allotments measuring between 4000 sqm right up to nearly five hectares.
According to the planning report by Property Projects Australia, the new development would include new interior roads feeding off Tranter Street and servicing the new lots.
“The lots have been dimensioned to respond to the constraints of the site by ensuring that each lot contains sufficient unconstrained area to establish a dwelling house, associated outbuildings and private open space,” the report said.
“The site is currently vacant and the majority of it has been historically cleared.
“Remaining vegetation is primarily concentrated along a gully.”
The area has a number of constraints, with PPA noting the parcel is included on both state and local bushfire hazard mapping and is affected by flooding along the existing creek to the north of the site.
The planning report also revealed the site contains two core koala habitat areas, which will be retained on the three proposed lots they cover.
This is the latest subdivision to be lodged for the Top Camp/Mount Rascal/Preston areas south of Toowoomba, after Watcon Building Group in December proposed a 27-lot estate on the western side of the New England Highway.
Toowoomba developers like Clive Berghofer and the Wagner family have also continued the creation of lots in Kearneys Spring, Torrington, Mount Rascal and other localities in the southern part of the city.
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