Toowoomba Regional Council approves plan for Wyreema GP, dental clinic

A small town outside Toowoomba will get access to both local GP and dental services soon, after plans were approved by the council. Here’s where it’s going.

A new GP clinic and dentistry will be coming to a small town south of Toowoomba, after the council gave plans for a medical centre the green light.

Applicant Jaideep Singh has been approved to build a combined medical practice on the corner of Balfour St and Newman Rd in Wyreema.

The town, which has grown rapidly over the past decade, is not currently serviced by medical services.

But the approval was not reached without changes to the original proposal, with the applicant scaling back the number of practitioners to one GP and one dentist.

Toowoomba Regional Council also had issues with the original design’s setbacks from the road, layout, car parking, retaining walls and acoustic barriers, all of which were resolved in later correspondence between council planning officers and the applicant.

In her assessment report, planning officer Katrina Christensen said the development could be conditioned to comply with the planning scheme.

“The proposal is considered to comply with relevant Planning Scheme provisions or, to the extent of noncompliance, is considered capable of being conditioned to comply,” she wrote.

Nearly 90 conditions were attached to the development approval, along with an infrastructure charges bill of $8400.

The applicant has been contacted for comment.