Will Brisbane’s urban planning keep up with a seismic shift in employment practices, turbocharged by the pandemic?
That might be overstating it a little, but the man tasked by City Hall with revitalising Brisbane’s suburbs says the work-from-home trend must force a rethink in urban planning.When Ross Elliott was appointed chairman of the Better Suburbs Initiative in September 2019, the world was a few months away from a major – and catastrophic – global shift.
In Brisbane alone, he says, between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of residents live and work in the suburbs. “If we actually design spaces where it’s possible and easy to walk more or bike more, or get more physical activity, that’s beneficial for our health and wellbeing. “Most of these developments are going on in places like Logan and Ipswich, where the city councils don’t have the bargaining power that Brisbane City Council might have.“I think it’s worse in Queensland than other states, but this sort of suburban development is happening in all major cities in Australia.”a need for 900,000 new homes across the region. Of these, 209,000 would be within Brisbane City Council boundaries.
“I could never understand that because the favoured mixed-use district of planners in the whole state is the Brisbane CBD. Everything goes, and why not? “The things that make it attractive to live in these locations in the city, we want to see that out in the suburbs.” “It needs to be led from the top because when you just put a system in place and set and forget, which is what happened with neighbourhood planning, it really doesn’t deliver.”
“We consider [transport] pretty important because what we are finding is that a lot of these renewal sites, just by default, are often close to train stations or bus interchanges,” he told the Property Council lunch.
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