E-Petition

Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House that local government’s impose a levy on developers to cover the cost of downstream drainage upgrades due to increased water run off caused by new developments. But in the Brisbane City Council area that payment by developers is not always if ever used within that water catchment but added to general revenue and spent in other catchments across the city. Hemmant on Brisbane’s south eastside has been suffering this lack of drainage upgrades or maintenance since the amalgamation which formed the greater Brisbane City Council in 30 October 1924. The 1992 Lytton Road East Development Study undertaken by the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council clearly spells out the need for increased drainage should the industrialization of Lytton and Hemmant take place and it certainly has. Hemmant progresses to grow at a rapid rate. 

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to legislate that developers’ contribution paid to local government for downstream catchment improvements be actually spent in that catchment and that all prior local developer’s contribution since 1992 be redirected back to the catchment of Hemmant Creek, Lindum Creek and Bulimba Creek without any delay and those drainage works paid for by developers and be undertaken without further delay. With the Olympic games planned for 2032, Hemmant’s drainage neglect must be addressed.