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Coronation Drive site set for huge transformation (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by Zagorath to c/brisbane

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town planning firm Urbis said the passage of time had rendered the neighbourhood plan obsolete since its adoption in 2011

Hard to disagree with them in this case. It's a pretty desolate-feeling office park right now, and it's a prime location for very dense development. More so than some of the other locations Council is currently looking at upzoning.

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[–] ageingrockstar 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Central to the development would be the 1850s-built Milton House, which at the time of its construction belonged to prominent experimental farmer Ambrose Eldridge.

“The design of the master plan has focused on restoring the original setting of the dwelling, in terms of the relationship of the house to the slope of the land and reinstating the ability for the house to have a visual connection to the Brisbane River and CBD,” Urbis said.

This is good. It's pretty much hidden away at the moment. I imaging a lot of ppl don't even know it's there currently.