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15 July, 2025
Building business
PUBLIC submissions are now open for a Development Application (DA) to build a mixed-use industrial estate opposite the Big Fish, on Pumicestone Road.
Developer Australian National Homes (ANH) has proposed to rezone two rural residential properties on the north side of Pumicestone Road—between the Bruce Highway and Bigmor Drive—to a mix of business, industry, and environmental zones.
Some of the businesses and industries proposed in the DA include: animal husbandry, animal keeping, caretakers accommodation, car wash, educational establishment, food and drink outlet, function facility, garden centre, hardware and trade supplies, indoor sport and recreation, major electricity infrastructure, market, motor sport facility, nightclub entertainment, office, outdoor sport and recreation, park, place of worship, research and technology industry, shop, showroom, theatre, tourist attraction, warehouse, environment facility and permanent plantation.
According to the Planning Assessment Report, the proposed project would be beneficial to the region, given its rapid urban growth.
“The subject properties are at the junction of a rapidly gentrifying and intensifying urban landscape,” they said.
“The properties themselves are ideally suited for urban enterprise development and the proposed layout of new zones seeks to ensure the focus is firmly on the interface of the urban growth front, while protecting rural residential amenity for the land to the north and west.
“The proposed variation to the planning instrument has long term economic and ecological benefits that warrant consideration beyond the life of the current planning scheme.”
The developer argues the existing Big Fish site across the road is an indicator of the area’s “emerging urban cluster”, and an example of how the current zoning is not suitable anymore.
The proposal also seeks to facilitate an ecological link from the existing stand of vegetation, northward to Morris Road Park, with the industrial development taking place on the remainder of the site.
The subject site features two adjacent properties on the northern side of Pumicestone Road, Elimbah.
The first is a 15.68-hectare lot fronting the Bruce Highway and Pumicestone Road. It contains a house, farm outbuilding, livestock paddocks, and a child care centre under construction. The land includes a dam, koala habitat, and a ridgeline that the developer argues provides natural noise protection.
The child care centre, expected to open in 2025, has an approved access driveway and completed earthworks.
The second property is a two-hectare cleared lot at the corner of Bigmor Drive and Pumicestone Road. It features a house and a few small outbuildings on a long, narrow block.
“This application seeks to take up some of the a short fall of industrial and business land, while adding an ecological linkage from the biodiversity area on site, in keeping with prelodgement discussions,” they said.
“It is anticipated that the Moreton Bay Region will grow by 210,000 more residents by the year 2041.
“Well serviced, central and highly accessible land such as the subject site should be considered for a range of employment, business, industry and a small degree of service uses in the growth nodes being planned for.”
Public submissions close on August 15, 2025 for DA/2024/3791.
To make a submission in favour or against visit www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Building-Development/DA-Tracker/10703267
