Month: February 2016

For three years community interests in West End have campaigned for a truly visionary outcome for the Kurilpa Point redesign. This is a unique site of the last remaining significant inner city riverside that needs to serve all of the people of Brisbane. “It has always been the hope of the community that this opportunity creates in Brisbane an incredible urban neighbourhood ready for the century ahead of us. We remain of that belief,” said Dr Erin Evans President of the West End Community Association. “We welcome an announcement about the development of the Kurilpa Point area as the...

The new Planning Act, on line to become law by the middle of the year, will set the rules to control all types of development throughout Queensland for years to come.  Four community spokespersons were invited to address a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee sitting in Brisbane throughout Friday 26 February to consider last minute improvements to these new laws, joining representatives of the development industries, planning profession and heritage interests. The community spokespersons, Phil Heywood of Kurilpa Futures, Revel Poynton of the Environmental Defenders Office, Elizabeth Handley of Brisbane Residents United and Erin Evans of the West End Community Association,...