GREENBANK residents are petitioning for their properties to be rezoned so they can subdivide and sell up amid fears their once quiet country streets will be come rat-runs to new residential developments.
Part of Greenbank is in the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area, where the population is forecast to grow to 120,000 from the current 3500 in the next 30 years.
Residents who live in areas zoned for ‘park living’ say the zoning is outdated because development and increased traffic is taking away their quiet rural lifestyles.
Under current planning laws, no new lots can be created in the park living precinct.
On Wednesday night 25 landholders got the rezoning petition under way in an impassioned public meeting at Greenbank Community Centre.
The petition, led by Stoney Camp Road resident Barry Steele, calls for rezoning to allow sub divisions on Teviot Road between Greenbank Road and Middle Road, Stoney Camp Road, Brightwell Street, Campbell Road, Wynne Road and Smith Road.
Residents at the public meeting said they feared Mirvac’s proposed 3000 home subdivision on the corner of Teviot Road and Greenbank Road would bring a flood of traffic to Teviot Road and Stoney Camp Road.
They said their properties were being devalued already through increased traffic, noise and pollution and they wanted to be allowed to subdivide to increase the sale value of their land.
Roger Clark, who has lived on Stoney Camp Road since 1975, said the road was already overrun with traffic.
“It’s where they’re putting these developments and where they’re not providing infrastructure – Stoney Camp Road is already extremely busy and when these 3000 houses go in it’s going to be ridiculous,” he said.
“It’s not just Stoney Camp Road – it’s going to be Crowson Lane, it’s going to be Middle Road, it’s going to be all the roads around.”
He said he and his wife Brenda Clark’s quality of life was being ruined.
“In suburbia you expect to have traffic – you expect there to be lots of people – but if you live where we do you move there for peace and quiet,” he said.
“But all of a sudden suburbia comes to you and you’re not allowed to get out of it.”
Mr Steele will take the petition to Logan MP Linus Power.
