Sue Dunne, Nicole Whysall and Sandra Ohnsorge say Thagoona is the wrong location for multi-storey blocks. Photo LYLE RADFORD
The red shaded blocks are the six properties that form the proposed development.
THE past few months have been a blur for Nicole Whysall.
She is part of an ever-growing group of residents against what they believe are ill-considered development proposals for the area.
The Western Corridor Residents Group (Karrabin, Rosewood, Walloon and Thagoona) now has almost 600 residents on its social media site.
It is a group that emerged from the push against the Mount Marrow dump site earlier this year.
The locals are now standing up against plans to build a village on 61 hectares of flood-prone land at 934 Karrabin Rosewood Road, 33 and 45-59 Rosewood Thagoona Road, and 18-36, 48 and 118 Thagoona Haigslea Road.
The sprawling SYZ Thagoona Land 1 development application was first reported in the Moreton Border News last month.
It features 1,509 dwellings, with 185 in the northern portion and 1,324 in the southern parcel.
The proposal is for six lots to be subdivided into 26 and includes three- to five-storey dwellings.
Residents are worried about the impact on the roads, the increase in flooding and the loss of more fragile bushland.
“The hardest part for residents to get their heads around is the sheer amount of information on this scheme they have to digest,” Nicole said.
“Not everyone has hours upon hours to read it all.
“Residents want to be informed about the proposal, and to make their submissions based on the information available.
“A proposal for multiple five-storey towers is ridiculous.”
She said the mood in the community had changed recently.
“We realise this part of the world is seen as a place to develop, and we have no problem with that.
“But there is growing anger because we do not want to live in a degraded, over developed area that looks like everywhere else.
“This proposal for super high-density stuff is what has people appalled.
“When the plans were first talked about it was not made clear how high the buildings would be.”
The land currently is used for rural activities but is mapped on the council’s Planning Scheme as an Urban Development Area, with zoning for Future Urban.
Residents gathered at Walloon’s Henry Lawson Park on Saturday in a huge push to write submissions.
Public submissions are required by December 19.
