Brisbane City Council, in partnership with the Queensland Government, has started developing an overarching plan to guide the growth and development of the inner city—the River City Blueprint.
The blueprint will draw together all existing plans, studies and strategies for suburbs within a five kilometre radius of the CBD to generate a single, consolidated vision for the area.
It follows the release in May 2007 of the Smart cities: Rethinking the city centre report.
The report presented a vision of Brisbane as one of the world’s great walking and cycling cities and the inner city as a network of business, cultural, living, research and knowledge precincts, linked by a series of pedestrian ‘spines’ and high-quality public transport.
It said the inner city’s “extraordinary” development potential would only be realised through more coordinated and integrated planning, which would require the council and state government to work closer together.
When finalised, the River City Blueprint will provide a cohesive framework for managing future growth and infrastructure delivery in inner Brisbane. While the blueprint will primarily focus on a 20-year timeframe to 2031, all project work will also consider the 50-year horizon to 2061. Launched on 17 December 2009, the blueprint will take at least 18 months to create, with a draft plan expected by late-2010 for public consultation.
It will be jointly funded by the state government and council, which will coordinate and lead the project. Urban Futures Brisbane, an independent board that provides the council with advice on planning issues, will help guide the development of the River City Blueprint.
The inner five kilometres is 78 square kilometres or six per cent of the area of Brisbane, but is home to one quarter of the city’s one million residents and contains half of its 700,000 jobs.
For more information, visit the project website. DIP Updated Thursday, 25 March 2010
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