Imagine living next to a large construction site for 20 years. That’s the prospect facing many Cleveland residents if the State Labor Government lets the Toondah Harbour residential development go ahead.
Toondah = 20 years of community disruption
Redlands2030 and the Toondah Action Group (TAG) have issued flyers to Cleveland residents who are at greatest risk of disturbance during the lengthy Toondah Harbour construction period. Likely impacts for residents include noise, traffic congestion, dust and odours.
A community workshop in April, organised by Redlands2030, will give nearby residents an opportunity to consider likely disturbances in more detail.
Are you prepared for 20 years of heavy construction traffic on Passage, Middle, Shore & Long Streets in CLEVELAND?
No genuine consultation
Would you like to live near a construction site for 20 years?
Tell your elected representatives your concerns about noise, traffic and other disturbance which would be caused if 3,600 apartments are built over a 20 year period next to Toondah Harbour. This massive residential development project is currently supported by Redland City Council, the State Labor Government (including Don Brown MP for Capalaba) and Andrew Laming the Federal Member for Bowman.
Over the past four years there has been no genuine community consultation about the Toondah project. Given this appalling record, it’s likely that the concerns of residents will be ignored unless we mobilise early and present convincing and detailed arguments to our elected representatives.
Construction impacts
Building Toondah’s 3,600 apartments will require the transport of large quantities of soil, rock, steel, cements, timber & joinery, scaffolding, temporary works items like cranes and equipment.
Then there’s the daily travel of the construction workers. Many of them would be likely to come from outside the Redlands.
The pain caused by a 20 year building phase has not been scoped or discussed. So far, its impact on the local community is unquantified.
Is this scale and duration of construction, something you want in your neighbourhood?
What to do
Think how a 20 year construction project at Toondah Harbour might impact on you and:
- Comment about your concerns on the Redlands2030 website and Facebook page.
- Express your concerns to your local councillor and other elected representatives.
- Attend the Redlands2030 community workshop at the end of April
The Toondah Harbour Priority Development Area would become a massive construction site for about 20 years.
Redlands2030 – 25 March 2018
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9 Comments
3600 apartments, a marina for those who can afford it? The Councillors involved in this decision will be gone before it has been completed. How easy it is to destroy a beautiful part of our coastline. Have always loved the low key approach to the journey to Stradbroke. The easing of the ferry or catamaran out of Toondah harbour, the mudflats, beautiful birds and the wetlands. So easy to destroy and we can never get it back. How does Cleveland absorb so many people people and cars. Feel sorry for the locals who will have to live with the ongoing process as they build. What happens to the koalas? Where will they go? What about other birdlife that uses the wetland area? Do hope the Council will realise that sometimes development and moving forward doesn’t always mean we have to develop and destroy every piece of land. The Council has decided everyone will want to live in apartments. Do we? Have we been asked? How many would choose this, where is the public consultation? Feel so angry about the way our city is being developed. Shocking!
Cr Peter Mitchell elected to represent Division 2 still backs the current massive 3,600 development.
The Mayor is still spinning the line it will be somehow good for Redland City.
Don Brown is backing it because he is an idiot and doesn’t care what the increased traffic will do to Capalaba.
Just remember you can vote them out.
Easy . I recommend it.
Get rid of here today gone tomorrow politicians they only feather there own nests.What a demise. I have seen the Redlands being destroyed in the 30 plus years I have been a resident so much for progress at the hands of the money grabbers.May they sit back and have a reality check before it is to late. Why destroy some thing because you can.You don’t have the Devine right to do this, but some entities think they have. They will be judged one day by there piers.Let us not forget the reason we love were we live and not destroy it.
I would go one step further than the members of Redlands 2030. There has been a high level of corruption surrounding an unsavoury commercial development with big donations going to LNP, Labor and $225,000 to the Federal Government. None have seriously considered the infrastructure required for a huge unit complex in any suitable location and some councillors with limited thinking have used words like “fantastic”in relation to this proposal. These people are not representing residents and need to be sacked, along with pollies who can be bought.
Good on them. Tell the greenies and environmentalist to stick it up the arse!
If Toondah is so good why is it wrapped in secrecy?
It is unclear how the concerns of the locals will be reconciled against the claimed benefits for the city.
Division 2 will pay….so people in other divisions can eat chips on the water and people of Brisbane can get onto a barge 24/7.
Well done 2030 nobody else, least of all the Div2 Councillor, has raised the impact on those living closest to the construction.
The Mayor doesnt care, Laming doesnt care, Brown doesnt care while Robinson has shown signs of caring.
Where to next…the streets!
Those living near the construction site are not the only ones affected. There will be NOISY, SMELLY, heavy goods vehicles ,bearing waste,machinery and materials to and from the site via any number of routes around Toondah for a very long period – TEN YEARS ?? Shore St, where I live, is likely to be the main route in/out and with current construction of ‘Toondah Outlook’ in Wharf St I know what to expect – though much, much worse.
Completion of Toondah Harbour will bring hundreds of resident cars to the area, probably thousands if we add visiting trades vehicles all adding their noise and pollution. If I wanted to live in a “congested city like environment” ( and I DON’T ) then I would live nearer Brisbane in a place like Newstead. Shame on the Govt and Council for supporting and pursuing this ‘ developer’s dream !
The foolish Council, thinking that this poor development is going to be the tourism saviour of our fair city. I have just spent a week in Sydney, the protection of old buildings, the history and the fact that every Council sees trees as a priority has become the great asset of Sydney. As people drive down Boundary Road Victoria Point all they see is little boxes on bare earth, where once there were nice trees, that could have been easily protected, given some a start to their landscaping. But sadly the bare earth mentality is what Redlands is now noted for.
The subbies at Toondah will all need to have parking and so the parking for the ferry terminal to Straddie is a perfect option.
I will bet 100 bucks that not one tourist will come to Redlands to see 3600 ugly units blocking the view of the bay, the Toondah Koalas will be gone and the view from the Historic Grandview will be tacky buildings. This Toondah development is greed at its worst, when is the State Government going to open their eyes and just understand what they have done to our beautiufl city.
Toondah will bring Double B Quarry trucks moving through the streets of Cleveland 6 days a week which will become very stressful, as to build a 100 acre island in the marine park will need millions of tons of soil. One can only image where that will come from, maybe Mt Cotton, where the place has been trashed for years. The developer does not have to comply with Council policy, so it is an open cheque book. Sadly the local residents will become the compliance officers, but who will listen?????
If I recall Weinem Creek and Toondah were to be the package, both or none, but looks like a deal has been done, so what happened when they reneg on their agreement, what happened to other interested parties as the agreement has been breached?
Now we hear that Council buys a flood plain for $3M of ratepayers money, probably builds a multi level car park no where near the ferry terminal and then all the cars will be removed from the foreshore, surprise surprise Walker just races in and bang, units on the foreshore at Redland Bay.
Those who made the decision hopefully will be kicked out of Council, but the damage has been done, and the Redlands has been left a bad legacy.