Brisbane City Council has launched Brisbane’s Inner City Strategy (the Strategy) at a Property Council breakfast.
The Property Council has welcomed the Strategy, which is intended to provide an overarching framework to guide the growth of Brisbane’s inner city and builds on Brisbane’s Sustainable Growth Strategy and the Inner Spark initiative.
At the Property Council breakfast, Deputy Mayor Krista Adams reinforced Council’s desire to work closely with the private sector to deliver on the Strategy’s outcomes and welcomes industry to bring forward bold ideas.
There is strong alignment between the Property Council’s advocacy objectives and what the Strategy aims to achieve in providing diverse housing supply (including build-to-rent), vibrant precincts and attractive investment options.
The Strategy contains four pillars:
- Celebrating Brisbane’s subtropical lifestyle
- Curating cultural experiences
- Connecting places and transport
- Creating inner city neighbourhoods.
Key highlights
- Review of universal housing and accommodation design standards and incentives to increase supply across Brisbane’s inner city
- Develop Brisbane’s Design Rating Scheme to support best practice subtropical and environmental design for development outcomes
- Visual representation of all inner city Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues
- Identification of five priority sustainable growth precincts to facilitate sustainable growth and leverage the opportunities leading up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The priority sustainable growth precincts are:
- Kurilpa
- City Centre
- Albion
- Newstead
- Woolloongabba
Council have indicated that they will be exploring approaches to better manage car parking in these sustainable growth precincts with investigations flagged into reducing parking rates for development near public transport nodes.
The Property Council will continue engagement with Brisbane City Council regarding the implementation of the Strategy and policy settings that will set the foundation for the four key strategy pillars.
To download the Inner City Strategy, click here.