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This should not be allowed. This area is large acreage blocks. It was bad enough that they have allowed the block to be divided in the first place. There are already serious delays in a morning crossing boundary road from Woodlands drive. The infrastructure in the area is not being upgraded so larger density developments should not be permitted.
I live on Woodlands Drive & have done for 20 years. In that time I have seen the development of Sheldon College, the Kinross Rd development & other small block developments in the local area.
Woodlands Drive is already stressed at peak times, especially around school times. The traffic light phase on the Boundary Rd & Woodlands Drive intersection allows 12 cars per light phase. No significant additional reading infrastructure has been made to Woodlands Drive or Taylors Rd in the last 20 years.
The PARC development, with large acreage blocks, will impact on the local environment.
However, if an additional 40 block are crammed into the development, the already congested roading network will not cope at peak times.
Remember, there is discussion about a duplication of the M1 to the Gold Coast with a suggestion there will be a new bridge over the Logan River at the end of Mt Cotton Road.
Should this proposal eventuate, this duplication will add additional loading onto an already stressed Woodlands Drive as it will become, by default, a major thoroughfare from the Bayside to the Gold Coast.
I oppose any further density in the current development.
Fantastic area for more development, infrastructure and roads will need some upgrades but that will come with more development.
I live on Woodlands Drive & have done for 20 years. In that time I have seen the development of Sheldon College, the Kinross Rd development & other small block developments in the local area.
Woodlands Drive is already stressed at peak times, especially around school times. The traffic light phase on the Boundary Rd & Woodlands Drive intersection allows 12 cars per light phase. No significant additional reading infrastructure has been made to Woodlands Drive or Taylors Rd in the last 20 years.
The PARC development, with large acreage blocks, will impact on the local environment.
However, if an additional 40 block are crammed into the development, the already congested roading network will not cope at peak times.
Remember, there is discussion about a duplication of the M1 to the Gold Coast with a suggestion there will be a new bridge over the Logan River at the end of Mt Cotton Road.
Should this proposal eventuate, this duplication will add additional loading onto an already stressed Woodlands Drive as it will become, by default, a major thoroughfare from the Bayside to the Gold Coast.
I oppose any further density in the current development.
What is the Council's plan? Is it to destroy all greenspace in the area?
Infrastructure does not support the current volume of traffic. By building all these small lots you are devaluing surrounding area. High density entertains low socio-economic areas.
Please consider people that purchase acreage and want to maintain the acreage lifestyle - not just on their single block but surrounds.
The (slow) development of Parc has no doubt destroyed eco systems, environment, flora, fauna and animal habitat. It would appear that their faulty design can't even adequately manage water flows.
I believe that council should reconsider specific areas for low density development, while leaving some green space - that can't be included for high density living.
Is this application to reconfigure the current Parc @Thornlands 38 acreage sites into 40 acreage sites or is it proposing the carving up of 3 of the acreage sites in 40 butter-box ghetto developments?
It's almost comical to watch the proposed sites flood every time it rains. How has council approved building in a drained dam?
The wildlife that lived there are now rotting on the curb as road kill while the hoons carve up the Woodlands Drive/Taylor Road intersection without fear.
Woodlands Drive resembles the M1 in peak hour and will only get worse but let the rates $$$ flow in. That seems to be all this council cares about.
I cannot believe that a sub division of 40 blocks would be considered. I live on Boundary Road near the lights on Boundary/Woodlands Drive. I waste several tanks of fuel a year and precious time due to the lights not giving more time to get through and having to do U turns each time I go out / come home. The stink and noise of the traffic, is horrible. The idea of crossing as a pedestrian at the lights is impossible due to the light running attitude of driver's not wanting to stop many of which are truck and other heavy vehicles. We are trapped between Kinross Road and Woodlands Woodlands intersection. We have lived here for 30 years. Gone are our wallabies, gone our koalas, gone our lizards, gone are the native grasses, hello weeds. Gone are the green spaces. Going to work and negotiating Boundary road/ Woodlands lights, Kinross Road Lights and then the round a bout near Sheldon college is indescribable. Water drainage is severely impacted due to changes in land levels especially to the older blocks that have been long term inhabited. Come on council, why dont you concentrate on sewerage in these septic only areas?? Why dont you change the Redlands City logo that somehow is supposed to depict lifestyle and koalas?? How about improving the current infrastructure of lights, safe green spaces for us and our native fauna? Woodlands drive cannot take the pressure, it is not have curb and channeling. It is a single lane continuing out to the M1. What will happen if there is to be a shopping centre on Panorama Drive / Boundary Road. Traffic from all directions will concentrate around this area. Sorry, I can only see the extra detrimental impact to an already struggling area.
PARC was approved in conflict with the Redlands Planning scheme and SEQregional plan, a shameful outcome but not surprising. The lobbying from a few greedy people who have some expectation of the golden egg has driven this outcome and the latest approval of development in South Thornlands. The claim that if we have development then we receive the infrastructure is a absolute lie residents have to see the poor road infrastructure into the city now and yet development is allowed to continue. Shoreline Redland Bay 10,000 residents and Toondah Harbour 10,000 both outside of SEQ regional Plan and Redlands planning scheme got the tick from Mayor Williams and her team. To allow 3 lots to be split into 40 lots is a disgrace, sewerage will need to be supplied hopefully at the cost of the developer. The land has high environmental values and we already see evidence that the developer has the mentality of clear fell everything in sight . I object to this application it is in breach of the acécheme and SEQ regional plan
Good to see the land being developed, mostly this area is remnant farm land and already cleared of native flora and fauna.
It’s close to existing CPDs and existing infrastructure.
Redlands needs more available building land to cater for the housing shortage .
Look forward to further development in Southern Thornlands.
