Ensure there is no further urban expansion in the Shire of Redland

Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
S Baltais
29 Estelle Street
BIRKDALE QLD 4159
Total Signatures - 631
Sponsoring Member: Michael Choi MP
Posting Date: 27/9/2004
Closing Date: 10/12/2004
Tabled Date: 22/2/2005
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
This petition of Queensland citizens draws your attention to their desire to ensure there is no further urban expansion in the Shire of Redland. The Redland Shire has experienced significant urban growth in recent years which has had major negative consequences for our community’s well being and quality of life, through traffic congestion and continuing degradation of loss of landscapes, open space, bushland habitat and cherished environmental values. It is apparent to the community that Redland Shire cannot sustain further urban expansion and that current planning is failing to achieve ecological sustainability. Your petitioners therefore request the House to require the Deputy Premier the Hon Terry Mackenroth in his role as Head of the Office of Urban Management to incorporate only the existing urban footprint (as per the 1998 Redland Shire Strategic Plan) within the SEQ 2021 Draft Regional Plan, and to require Local Government and Planning Minister the Hon Desley Boyle to reject any Redland Shire Draft Planning Scheme based on further urban expansion in the Redland Shire.