Brisbane will provide a quarter of the south-east’s new housing by 2046, even though the city’s population growth rate will be one of the region’s lowest.

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The draft South East Queensland Regional Plan, being released on Wednesday, reveals 900,000 new homes, units and townhouses will be needed to accommodate another 2.2 million people by 2046.

  • Yeti_Rider@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Don’t be silly. Developers will just continue to concrete over the most fertile farmland (Redlands and Rochdale) and flatten all the pesky bush, which is ok because they’ll put up a sign saying “we care for displaced wildlife…please drive carefully while they wander the roads wondering where trees went”.