South-East Queensland civic leaders have called for a national framework to assist states and local councils to reach sustainable population targets.
Speaking at a Brisbane Institute population growth seminar last night, Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said there needed to be more federal involvement in the future growth of the state’s south-east corner.
He also questioned the validity of the ‘Big Australia’ proposal, where the national population will grow to 35 million by the middle of this century.
”We need a national population policy,” Cr Newman said. ”We need actually to develop some idea of how this is going to be carved up and how every state can attract some of these people.”
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Sunshine Coast mayor Bob Abbot – a vocal critic of over-population – agreed the federal government needed to provide more information about the benefits of Big Australia.
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Ms Bligh warned against ‘’simplistic solutions”, such as banning further residential development in urban areas, which could result in higher house prices.
Cr Newman said the mix of housing types in the South East Queensland Regional Plan needed reviewing.
“For every 100 families that come to the region, there will be an appetite for a certain number of detached homes and an appetite for a certain number of apartment or infill dwellings,” he said.
“I think we should be looking at the issue of [undeveloped] land supply,” he said. He said Brisbane’s nearby rural Scenic Rim, Lockyer and Somerset councils offered the best opportunity for sustainable population growth.
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Delfin representative Guy Gibson said there needed to be more emphasis on building detached housing in the suburbs, which he described as half the cost of inner-city apartments. He also criticised the assumption units were more popular.
However Bob Abbot rejected Mr Gibson’s call for extra land to be made available, saying developers were already “sitting” on 150,000 blocks.
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