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The draft South East Queensland Regional Plan, being released on Wednesday, reveals 900,000 new homes, units and townhouses will be needed to accommodate another 2.2 million people by 2046.

  • Kittybird
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    1 year ago

    Yeah there’s not that much room left in Brisbane

    • ZagorathOP
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      1 year ago

      There’s plenty of room; we just need to stop building things in such an inefficient sprawling fashion.

      • Yeti_Rider@lemmy.world
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        Don’t be silly. Developers will just continue to concrete over the most fertile farmland (Redlands and Rochdale) and flatten all the pesky bush, which is ok because they’ll put up a sign saying “we care for displaced wildlife…please drive carefully while they wander the roads wondering where trees went”.