News
22 December, 2024
Unlocking local employment
Moreton Bay has shared its plan to transform parts of Narangba East into a major employment precinct with up to 10,500 new local jobs to support the City’s growing population, and ease industrial land shortages in South East Queensland.
Council adopted three separate planning and placemaking reports that will create more employment opportunities for residents to live, work and play locally, while balancing the City’s needs to accommodate future housing and growth.
The Urban Areas Employment Lands Investigation (UAELI): Land Supply Update 2024 highlights City of Moreton Bay’s need to unlock new industrial land to create local jobs for its growing population.
The Narangba East Planning Investigation: Phase 1 investigates the potential for new industrial and housing land uses for Narangba East (west of Bruce Highway) and work with industry to inform more detailed planning and activation over the coming decades.
The Narangba Innovation Precinct Planning Scheme amendment consolidates four years of investigative work to balance the need to support existing and new special and high impact industries within its current boundaries (east of Bruce Highway), while protecting residential areas nearby the precinct.
Mayor Peter Flannery said Narangba East and the Narangba Innovation Precinct would help address a growing industrial land crisis facing City of Moreton Bay.
“City of Moreton Bay remains dedicated to hitting its housing targets to support South East Queensland’s burgeoning population, but with growth comes the need to create local jobs,” he said.
“The State Government’s ShapingSEQ plan outlines that City of Moreton Bay must accommodate 125,800 new homes and a minimum of 85,400 new jobs by 2046.
“We currently have 12 major growth fronts across the city to address the new homes aspect, but we’ve started to fall behind on our targets for new jobs.”
According to Cr Flannery, latest data shows Moreton Bay is currently being forced to turn away 60 per cent of industrial land enquiries due to a lack of available land for these uses.
It also showed that 80,000 Moreton Bay residents currently commute outside of the city for work every week.
Deputy Mayor Jodie Shipway said an additional 25,400 jobs and $9 billion of economic value would be created by 2056, if we met the industrial land targets outlined in the UAELI update report.
“These changes will create the local jobs that our children will need as they grow up to support our growing economy,” she said.
“Unlocking this land will help us transition into a mature city by diversifying our economy and ensuring we hit the targets outlined in our Regional Economic Development Strategy.”
More info: [Narangba East Planning](https://yoursay.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/narangba-east-planning).
