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You are encouraged to express your feelings regarding the UQ Masterplan and send a letter of objection to the Minister making the final decision on the UQ application, the responsible Town Planner and our local elected representatives. Our friends at the St Lucia Community Association have an excellent online objection form that will distribute your objection automatically to the key stakeholders in the CID approval process.
Using the online form is very easy: simply fill in your details and edit the content of the letter as you wish. The formatting will be completed automatically. You don’t need to do anything else with regards to sending the email: when you submit the letter it will be sent to the relevant people automatically.
The form paragraphs can be individually edited on the actual webpage. You can simply delete what you do not want and add in what you would like to add. You will need to change some of the paragraphs to make them specific to Indooroopilly. Below are some paragraphs that you can copy and paste into the form if you wish.
Using the online form is very easy: simply fill in your details and edit the content of the letter as you wish. The formatting will be completed automatically. You don’t need to do anything else with regards to sending the email: when you submit the letter it will be sent to the relevant people automatically.
The form paragraphs can be individually edited on the actual webpage. You can simply delete what you do not want and add in what you would like to add. You will need to change some of the paragraphs to make them specific to Indooroopilly. Below are some paragraphs that you can copy and paste into the form if you wish.
Indooroopilly specific paragraphs:
(you can copy these paragraphs individually and replace the St Lucia specific paragraphs with these in the form).
I oppose the University of Queensland (UQ) Masterplan development at Long Pocket and any application by UQ for an extension to its Community Infrastructure Designation (CID). UQ does not have the expertise or interest to self-regulate its expansion. No part of its strategy seriously considers the legitimate interests of Indooroopilly residents. In less than 30 years UQ expansion has already had significant impacts on the family residential areas of St Lucia. It now has the potential to do the same to Indooroopilly.
While publicly UQ has attested that UQ will “keep to the current scale of development”, this is not borne out by the number of buildings planned, or the amount of floor space being built. The planned 22 storeys of student accommodation at the Long Pocket site clearly contradict this assertion. The existing usable space is being massively increased with 8 storey buildings planned for the river side of the site, so realistically numbers will be far higher than what has been publicly alluded to.
Traffic congestion is a significant issue. With the addition of research students and the visiting public, traffic and street parking congestion will be inevitable. The only access into and out of Long Pocket is via Meiers Road, Harts Road and Indooroopilly Road. This will lead to significant congestion surrounding the St Peters precinct, particularly given that Indooroopilly High School and Brigidine College are also in the vicinity. Furthermore, there is already a significant residential development under construction on Meiers Road at the CSIRO site, adjacent to the UQ Long Pocket campus, which alone will increase traffic by 1300 car movements per day. Ultimately, there will be five schools, the St Lucia Campus, the railway station, Indooroopilly Shopping Centre and the two golf courses within a 2.5 kilometre radius.
UQ should not be allowed to operate uniquely, outside Queensland planning and environment legislation. That privilege, granted to UQ over 100 years ago, is untenable in the 21st century. The Long Pocket campus development will impact many hundreds of residents in a densely populated part of a major urban city. The effect of UQ’s decisions has the potential to be devastating.
UQ should not be given free reign to the detriment of the local community. UQs plans for Long Pocket along with any application to extend its CID should be absolutely opposed.