The SEQ 2026 plan intends to: “protect biodiversity, contain urban development, build and maintain community identity, make travel more efficient, and support a prosperous economy. At the same time, the Regional Plan proposes that communities be built and managed using the most up-to-date and effective measures to conserve water and energy and for the design and siting of buildings to take advantage of the subtropical climate.”
This is certainly a step in the right direction. SEQ provides a vision, direction so as to deal with expected demographic change and the resultant problems and opportunities.
Reflecting on lost opportuntiies, John Minnery writes that in 1944,” planners proposed a one mile wide green belt of rural land encircling Brisbanes developed suburbs, together with future satellite towns linked by road. Supporters argued that cities were spreading like spilled treacle, engulfing everything in its path. Such treacle cities city covered good agricultural land. They led to the overloading of water and sewerage mains and to insurmountable traffic problems.”
However, this proposal was not implemented.
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