Ferny Hills is no longer just watching change happen next door. While construction continues around Ferny Grove railway station, the City of Moreton Bay is advancing its own Ferny Hills Precinct Planning project — a process that will shape how the suburb grows, what gets built and how its character is preserved. Taken together, the…
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The proposed replacement of the Bribie Island Bridge has moved beyond concept discussion. A formal business case has been completed and the project is now progressing through detailed design as part of the broader Caboolture–Bribie Island Road upgrade. For Banksia Beach, this is not just a traffic story. It is an access and resilience story…
When the former paper mill closed, Petrie lost the industrial employer that had defined it for generations. For decades, the site operated as one of the region’s major manufacturing hubs, originally established in the 1950s and later run by Australian Paper and Amcor. At its peak, the mill employed hundreds of workers and anchored local…
Brendale’s factories are not getting bigger. They are getting smarter. Behind the roller doors of long-established workshops, a quiet shift is underway. Sensors are being installed on machinery. Production schedules are being digitised. Maintenance is becoming predictive rather than reactive. In one of the largest industrial precincts within the City of Moreton Bay, automation is…
If you’ve stood along Margate’s foreshore during a king tide, you’ve seen the water sit higher than usual. Sand narrows. Park edges saturate. Photos circulate with the same quiet question: is this temporary — or is it something more permanent? Answering that requires context — tidal science, historical experience and market evidence. What causes king…
Petrie is set to anchor one of South East Queensland’s most significant vocational education investments, with a $60-million TAFE Centre of Excellence confirmed for the Moreton Bay Central precinct. The project follows the transfer of land from the City of Moreton Bay to Queensland, securing a site adjacent to UniSC’s Moreton Bay campus and the…
Clontarf is often framed as relaxed waterfront living — Pelican Park, wide streets, sea breezes. But did you know that during the crisis year of 1942, its position at the entrance to the Redcliffe Peninsula gave it strategic relevance? Queensland became a frontline staging ground in the Pacific War. Military bases, ports and airfields across…
At a time when much of Moreton Bay continues to urbanise, Laceys Creek remains one of the region’s most geographically defined residential pockets — modest in population, expansive in landholding and anchored to protected forest. Located about 50 kilometres north-west of Brisbane’s CBD and just beyond Dayboro, the locality sits within the upper North Pine…
Ferny Hills is often regarded as a settled, established suburb on Brisbane’s north-west fringe. Its early development, however, was shaped by rapid subdivision, strong marketing and a population surge that outpaced essential infrastructure. The suburb’s formation reflects a familiar outer-Brisbane pattern of the post-war decades: land first, families next, services later. What distinguishes Ferny Hills…
Bongaree’s competitive edge is not cosmetic — it is structural. The suburb is built along the shoreline of Pumicestone Passage, and that geography has shaped how people move through it for more than a century. What reads today as “walkability” is the modern outcome of a waterfront settlement pattern that began with fishing fleets, oyster…