Precinct plans for highway site

Plans have been lodged for a new “mixed business and industrial precinct”, beside the Bruce Highway, in Moreton Bay region.

The proposal is for two sites, totalling 17 hectares, opposite the Big Fish shopping centre, on the northern side of Pumicestone Rd at Elimbah.

A development application (DA) has been submitted to Moreton Bay City Council for a variation request on the land’s zoning to permit the new precinct.

However, part of the site would remain as an ecological corridor and for “future ecological connectivity purposes”.

Access to the precinct would be with an additional set of traffic lights on the same intersection as the current entry to the Big Fish centre.

The DA, publicly available on Council’s website, says the precinct would also help meet “employment, business and industry” needs in one opf the fastest growing areas of Moreton Bay region.

A 90-place child-care centre has already been approved and is now under construction on the site. It is scheduled to open next year.