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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 21/07/2026

These are the changes to our city's urban fabric we need to mitigate long-term health consequences like this. And as an added bonus, they're also the kind of changes we need to get us ready for hundreds of thousands of visitors come Brisbane 2032.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 21/07/2026

We've been advocating for years for Brisbane's CBD and our inner city neighbourhoods like the Valley, Newstead and South Brisbane to start a slow drawdown of onstreet parking, speed limit reductions, creating more shared zones and pedestrian malls, and creating permanent bus lanes.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 21/07/2026

While there's some industrial tweaking that might reduce pollution and the health risks of tyre wear, the easiest solution by far is to reduce the volume and speed of private cars in built-up areas.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 21/07/2026

The impact of tyre wear and particulates on the environment is hardly new – but a new report from the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences has found that a toxic chemical, 6PPD-quinone, was present on 23 of the 30 balconies tested around inner city Brisbane.

brisbanetimes.com.au

Your car might be covering your balcony in toxic dust

A chemical linked to dead fish was found on almost all the Brisbane balconies tested by University of Queensland researchers.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/06/2026

Fantastic turnout at this today’s lunch chat on how we can tackle Brisbane’s housing crisis hosted by @grattaninstitute.bsky.social with Andrew Messenger from @australia.theguardian.com, Dr Rachel Gallagher and Natalie Rayment from YIMBY QLD.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 10/05/2026

Our national @abundanthousing.org.au network kicked off three years ago with a campaign to get the federal government to pay states to fix their outdated planning laws. Today we won.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 21/01/2026

Disappointing that the Queensland Government have decided not to action or outright reject all of the Productivity Commission's land use and planning reforms. This Government has prioritised protecting "neighbourhood character" over proven solutions to the housing crisis.

qpc.qld.gov.au

Construction productivity - Queensland Productivity Commission

The QPC has been asked by the Queensland Government to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the productivity of the Queensland construction sector.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Big Brisbane news! The Lactalis Pauls milk processing facility in South Brisbane has announced its closure in June this year, hot on the heels of the redevelopment of the Visy Glass and Heidelberg Hanson sites announced last year. These are the last big brownfield sites in Brisbane's inner city!

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 09/01/2026

We just relaunched our website! We've been around for a few years now and thought we should show off all the work our volunteers have been doing. New and improved with news stories, all our newsletters and every bit of advocacy we've done!

greaterbrisbane.org

Greater Brisbane 🏗️🏢 Brisbane's YIMBY network

We're Greater Brisbane Urbanists, grassroots YIMBYs working to build a better, fairer city for everyone. Join us and help build abundant housing, better transport and walkable streets.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 20/12/2025

We’re terrible at social media so there’s no fun selfie but you have to believe us that we had a wonderful morning walking around Fortitude Valley reimagining what making the streets work for the people who live work and play here would be

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 12/12/2025

If you live work or play around Alderley Train Station in the inner north, it's your last chance to help envision the new Alderley renewal precinct. Our local members have been encouraging their neighbours to push for more density close to the train station. Feedback closes Sunday so hop in quick!

yoursay.brisbane.qld.gov.au

Alderley Centre Suburban Renewal Precinct Plan project

We are working with the community to shape the Alderley Centre Suburban Renewal Precinct Plan. This plan will guide how we design buildings, create spaces, and support local jobs. The precinct plan wi...

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 05/12/2025

Next Thursday night is our last social event for the year and we’re joined for a holiday special by Brisbane’s errant son @jonobri.com talking about @yimby.melbourne’s and @inflectionpoints.work’s year in review. Spots are limited so get in quick.

partiful.com

RSVP to Inflection Points: Brisbane Launch | Partiful

Join us for drinks in Brisbane to celebrate the launch of Inflection Points, Australia’s new home for long-form, pro-growth policy writing. Gather with likeminded wonks for a casual chat over some d...

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 05/11/2025

Granny flats are small game when it comes to building our way out of the housing crisis but they do have a role to play. There's no good reason to make them harder to build.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 05/11/2025

We'll be putting in a submission making it clear that this Amendment runs against the tide of planning reform happening across Australia. Anything that even marginally makes it harder or less economical to build more homes is a mistake in the middle of a housing crisis.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 05/11/2025

They've been a few years coming, but Brisbane City Council has put Amendment L out for consultation. The amendment makes it much harder to build granny flats in Brisbane, especially those big enough to be a genuine option for renters. It limits size, height and site coverage for secondary dwellings.

brisbane.qld.gov.au

Major amendment package L

Learn about Major amendment package L. Understand the proposed changes to City Plan and have your say.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 02/10/2025

Not the most exciting post but our AGM is coming up and we're stoked to announce our guest speaker is ABC's own Kenji Sato! Come along, have a beer and hearwhat it's like being the only journo to ride a bike to pressers. 12:30pm Saturday 25 September at the Burrow in West End.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

New parking changes means new apartments in West End don’t have to build parking. It’s likely in a few years it’ll be more like Newstead and the Valley where only a small % of homes have a car

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

If you'd like to join our impromptu submission drive for more homes where people want to live, put one in here. services.brisbane.qld.gov.au/online-servi...

services.brisbane.qld.gov.au

Have your say on a development application

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

One of our local volunteers was livid when they saw the poster up. They made a few changes.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

It's all the same complaints. It's too tall. It's making the area unsafe. It isn't in the neighbourhood character. It's unaffordable. It's taking away street parking. It'll make congestion worse. Fear of change. Fear of shadows. Fear of the mildest inconvenience.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

A few months ago, the local councillor organised a community meeting to discuss the project. Between that and this latest push from neighbouring residents, this project has received nearly TWO HUNDRED submissions against it.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

Stockwell's project adaptively reuses the heritage factory facades around the corner, adds greenspace and delivers 132 new homes and 2 storeys of retail and commercial space in one of Brisbane's highest demand areas.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

A block away are two parks, sports fields and Boundary Street shops and another block away is West Village Shopping Centre. Within a fifteen minute walk is South Bank, the Cultural Centre, Brisbane State High and the CBD.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

If you don't know West End too well, here's the local area. The site's currently a carpark, gym and warehouse. Across the road is newly expanded state school and the new police station.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 28/08/2025

Some West End residents are railing against a medium density development in their inner city suburb, just minutes from the CBD. It's sad that they're doing it at one of our favourite bars too. 😭

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

We're going to be advocating to the Commission to end Brisbane’s “townhouse ban”, remove restrictive zoning and character regulations that ration high-amenity land and remove minimum lot sizes, car parking minimums, excessive setbacks, height restrictions and floor area ratios.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

And nearly 70% of residential zoned land within a kilometre of train stations or six kilometres of the CBD make it effectively impossible or outright ban building townhouses or even small apartment blocks like Brisbane’s iconic six-packs!

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

In fact, character restrictions apply to nearly 13% of all of Brisbane’s residential zoned land, and the majority of residential lots in the highly desirable neighbourhoods within 6 kilometres of the CBD.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

Council policies on height limits, lot minimums and character protections in residential zoning all severely limit the developable land to a handful of large sites, particularly in the inner city where transport access is barely relevant for access to employment.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

This in turn drives up the cost of housing, punishes new residents with hours-long commutes away from their families, and costs taxpayers billions in subsidising the cost of infrastructure to be built that already exists in the inner city.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

Brisbane has remarkably restrictive planning regulations for most of our city. This land rationing drives up the cost of housing and pushes it to the fringes of our city.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 31/07/2025

The Queensland Productivity Commission's monumental 324 page interim report into construction productivity, exhaustively diagnosing the manifold problems with Queensland’s building and construction industry. This is the kind of ambitious reform we need to reverse Brisbane's housing crisis.

qpc.qld.gov.au

Construction productivity - Queensland Productivity Commission

The QPC has been asked by the Queensland Government to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the productivity of the Queensland construction sector.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It was great chatting to @ginarush.bsky.social for today’s ABC Long Read. Our little ragtag crew at @greaterbrisbane.org have been trying to spin a new story about how our city could work. More than Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane’s been fixated on a suburban lifestyle that’s not sustainable anymore.

abc.net.au

YIMBYs vs NIMBYs in the battle for your backyard

The Yes In My Backyard movement is lobbying for denser cities and more housing in places people want to work and live and YIMBYs want these homes built yesterday. But the NIMBYs haven't given up yet.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 15/04/2025

We’re proud to be part of the national team who brought these shovel-ready policies together for our Brick Book. For a “housing election”, it’s been very light on for policies that would actually boost housing supply. So here’s six.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/02/2025

A Greater Brisbane? In this economy? Join us tonight 6pm, at Isles Lane in Post Office Square for a snack, chat and social, all welcome.

Greater Brisbane Urbanists meetup - Isles Lane in Post Office Square
6pm 18/02/25
10a/300 Queen St, Brisbane City QLD 4000

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 16/01/2025

Water-sensitive urban design isn't just building flood-resistant apartments and rewilding stormwater drains. It's also unlocking urban land that isn't at risk for more intensive development.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 16/01/2025

So much of Brisbane is on a flood plain - and for many renters or first home buyers, your choice is to live somewhere flood prone and convenient or hours' commute from your friends, family or work. Meanwhile, all our inner city hills are locked down in low density character zones for well-off.

theguardian.com

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution | Nicki Hutley

With the outlook for risk of fire, flood and other disasters increasing, this is not a problem that will go away

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 01/01/2025

Dorina and Hal are both right that we need to put making housing more affordable before NIMBY’s self-interest and we need to build more medium density housing in Brisbane. And the best way we can do both is by overturning Brisbane’s outdated and exclusionary low-density character housing zones.

abc.net.au

Lower home values a fair price for more housing, planner says

Apartment owners in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia fear a new development nearby will lower their property prices, but urban planners say housing affordability is more important.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 10/12/2024

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM on Sunday! It's been a big year for our volunteers!

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 06/12/2024

Reminder that our annual strategy meeting’s this Sunday at Brisbane Square library!

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Abundant Housing Network Australia @abundanthousing.org.au · 03/12/2024

The Abundant Housing Network Australia welcomes the addition of housing construction workers to the core skills visa list, a necessary step toward building the 1.2 million well-located homes our country desperately needs.

AHNA welcomes the addition of housing construction workers to the core skills visa list, a necessary part of building the 1.2 million well-located homes our country desperately needs. We have been calling for this change since our September 2023 letter to Minister O'Neil, and are pleased to see the government finally take action, and actually treat this crisis like a crisis.

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 28/11/2024

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 26/11/2024

We're going to miss Stu's expertise and insights here in Brisbane now he's moving back across the Tasman. No-one's been as clear-eyed about how much impact upzoning has on boosting construction of public and private homes. This latest paper is a masterpiece and will go down in urbanist history.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 23/11/2024

Our (blesssedly short) AGM and annual strategy day is in TWO WEEKS! Come along, meet our volunteer team and help us dream up what our next year of campaigning for a bigger, better Brisbane will look like!

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 20/11/2024

Given how much progress has been made at a state level in the last two years, let’s hope we don’t go backwards

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/11/2024

But the changes the NSW Government are doing right now will set the groundwork to get out of the crisis even if it’ll take a decade to get there.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/11/2024

These things take a very long time and every city in Australia suffered from success in the early 10s. The apartment boom let state and local governments off the hook on reform and investment — and we’re suffering the repercussions now.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/11/2024

Anyone reading this article who’s horrified by the bloke trying to criminalise homeless for offending his aesthetic sensibilities can see the scars of putting aesthetics before people across our city. Character neighbourhoods that displace people to outer suburbs are just another expression of it.

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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/11/2024

Brisbane City Council is the biggest and most well resourced in the country. They have the power to make real material change and turn the housing crisis around right now.

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