Local newsletter regarding the Indooroopilly Golf Club condos proposal
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15 January 2005
Indooroopilly Golf Course condos... More relevant Information
Linked is a copy (two pages) of local newsletter regarding the Indooroopilly Golf Club proposal.
This is of significant importance to a wider area than just Long Pocket.
Reasons include:
- Loss of open space and "green" areas in Walter Taylor North which already has a very small proportion of useful parkland and public and accessible open space
- Relatively huge increase in traffic ... most likely to be at peak times esp in the morning
- No certainty that the Golf Club won't "need to" repeat the process again and again
It is therefore essential that you keep these issues in mind.
One of the problems is that the developers, councillors, local members of parliament, golf club members and the golf club members have no real stake in this area ... they can move on, retire, take up bowls ... they don't care what changes occur or what impacts they cause ... and like those already living on sections previously developed by the IGC, they don't know and therefore don't care about the changes that occurred previously!
We are left with the political consequences going back to when the ALP councillors refused to fund the dream of Sir John Chandler's wonderful regional park which at least would have preserved the open space ... a view I understand is at least accepted by the families of the former owners from whom the land was effectively stolen by Brisbane City Council, then "given" to Indooroopilly Golf Club members who now intend to reap the profits by flogging more real estate ...!
I say "more real estate" because many people now living in Long Pocket are doing so on land sold by the golf club last time it (sorry, its members) needed more money.
It is also particularly important to be as accurate as possible about facts.
So please note that the land was NOT resumed for "sporting use" but for a regional parklands that covered almost the entire peninsula with the exception of areas approximating those now occupied by the DPI and CSIRO, a regional parklands recognised as world class by a world famous UK town planner of that era, Sir Patrick Abercrombie who visited Brisbane at the time.
And this too is part of the problem because there are other groups in Brisbane also fighting campaigns to try to stop Council selling or giving land to developers including for golf courses where the land was previously resumed for purposes including park and open space.
Clearly Council should be getting MORE parklands where there are MORE people (as here at Long Pocket with the increasing small lot housing) and IF there is "spare" land the Indooroopilly Golf Club members don't need for golf, then it should be returned to the citizens of Brisbane as parkland ... not given to developers to allow IGC members to help themselves to the profits ...!
Stay tuned ... as the battle to keep open space and INCREASE rather than DECREASE the available open space continues on BOTH the golf courses ... what with Council trying to exclude us from the St Lucia course and now IGC wanting to sell our former parklands for profit ...
And it is worth noting that some of those from whom Council resumed farms had actually donated land for the original IGC course ... now St Lucia ... so if that was the case, they really did lose out BCC and then IGC becoming real estate speculators with land resumed for the citizens of Brisbane ... but ending up in the hands of developers.
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Newsletter- part 1
Newsletter- part 2
Michael Yeates
for WTN RAG