Development Assessment Streamlined – Queensland Background Probably the vast majority of land development in Queensland is managed through the framework of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA). Chapter 2 therein identifies the various State planning instruments against which assessable development is to be assessed by the relevant assessment manager (usually a local Council) and any […]
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Positive Queensland – Confidence Coming Back
Positive Queensland – Confidence Coming Back UDIA Queensland – Development and Construction Industry Performance Report Early 2013 has been a turning point for confidence. Since the beginning of the year median house prices and share prices have risen, Queensland trend unemployment has fallen, and retail spending has exceeded expectations. It seems Queenslanders are realising that […]
Light Rail – From Nowhere To Nowhere
Light Rail – From Nowhere To Nowhere Any major infrastructure investment into a region such as the Light Rail Project on the Gold Coast should be welcomed. Whilst it is a great positive to see such investment into public transport on the Gold Coast, the success of the project will rest with its financial viability. […]
Construction Kick Start Warning – Gold Coast
Construction Kick Start Warning – Gold Coast ADC again congratulates Mayor Tom Tate and his team for helping to restore consumer and business confidence in the local market through the Construction Kick Start initiative. The necessity of such a program has been emphasised, with almost 300 applications over 7 months. Council has estimated that the […]
Funding Announced To Ease QLD Housing Crisis
FUNDING ANNOUNCED TO EASE REGIONAL QLD HOUSING CRISIS The QLD government has announced long term funding to address the housing and land shortages in Central Queensland regional areas The rental crisis in regional Queensland mining towns, stemming from a shortage in housing and land, is an ongoing issue. These towns have struggled to keep […]
Valuations Killing Home Sales in Queensland
Valuations Killing Home Sales in Queensland ADC calls for an urgent review by the State Government of Queensland valuation processes See Below: Brian Stewart (CEO UDIA QLD) presents the latest housing finance figures and offers his assessment of the problems plaguing Queensland’s property valuation system. Housing finance upward trend Latest housing finance figures from the […]
Accommodation Short-Fall in Central Queensland
Accommodation Short-Fall in Central Queensland Judgement a positive step towards rectifying accommodation short fall in Central Queensland Arnold Development Consultants’ (ADC’s) Central Queensland office is in frequent receipt of enquiries regarding the potential to develop land in redress of the shortage of accommodation in the region stemming from the resources boom. The problem is typically […]
From The Planning Desk – QLD Miner’s Accommodation Planning & Environment Case
From The Planning Desk – QLD Miner’s Accommodation Planning & Environment Case The judgement in this case will be of great interest to those of you with the ever-so-common enquiry these days around Central Queensland of whether Council’s ought to consider favourably proposals for housing development (miner’s accommodation) on rural-zoned land despite the planning scheme […]
World Class Busway, A World Away For Logan
World Class Busway, A World Away For Logan By Matilda Butler Logan commuters have to wait, squashed in traffic day after day for fifteen years until they have the privilege of being connected to Brisbane City via the successful South East Busway. According to Queensland Transport, in 2001, plans for an extension of the South […]
Queensland Leads in August Approvals
More positive news that we have turned the corner in Queensland. An increase in Queensland in building approvals in the month of August of defying a national fall of 0.4% is certainly welcome news. Queensland Leads in August Approvals Queensland has come out ahead of the rest of country with an increase in approvals of […]
Quarterly Report Points To Painfully Slow Recovery
Quarterly Report Points To Painfully Slow Recovery Upon analysis of the UDIA’s quarterly report, ADC reiterates the necessity for urgent local and state government action to enable a recovery within the construction and development sectors. Quarterly Report Points to Painfully Slow Recovery A further 7,357 full –time construction jobs were lost in the August quarter, […]
Queensland Boom State 2012
Queensland Boom State 2012 Growth Years Tipped for Queensland Tony Grant-Taylor QUEENSLAND can look forward to booming growth in the next four or five years, according to economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel, with mining and infrastructure investment leading the way. “You’ll wake up next year in a much stronger economy than the one you went to […]