People in the Kurilpa neighbourhood might not yet be able to grasp the massive scale of the increased height being proposed by BCC in the proposed Kurilpa Development Area.
So, to help them, we have taken a well known neighbourhood destination, West Village, and added the height to three of the taller towers to make up to 90 storeys.
The central and tallest white apartment tower under construction is Altura at 22 storeys high: stack three or four more buildings of the same height on top, and you get the sense of the disturbing scale of the proposal.
Go and stand next to Altura next time you go to Woolworths and you will see that it is already a daunting building scale.
The proposed development will create a dramatic range of impacts:
- The environmental impacts from heat island effects and wind tunneling will create undue health impacts;
- The views enjoyed by existing apartment owners will be blocked, impacting on property values;
- The local streets will be gridlocked with cars trapped in a network that has only three distributor roads;
- The local services infrastructure, which is already at capacity, will be highly impacted.
BCC should clearly show the community what 90 storeys looks like over the whole development area and explain why the bulk of the City of Brisbane’s future SEQ growth has to be jammed into the Kurilpa precinct.