Tower plans for new 'village'

A new residential and commercial 'village', with 23 medium-to-high-rise urban towers for around 5000 residents, is being planned in the Moreton Bay region.

Mango Hill Urban Village (MHUV) is proposed for 10.36ha of land between Anzac Ave and both sides of Mango Hill Blvd.

The development application (DA), on Moreton Bay City Council’s website, is for a “mixed use precinct of living and leisure anchored by a rail-oriented workplace campus”.

Residential towers would range in height from eight to 30 storeys and provide about 2329 new high-density dwellings.

The MHUV commercial towers would have between eight-10 storeys, provide 118,000sqm of floor space and support around 12,000 new jobs.

Food and drink outlets and small tenancy retails spaces are planned on the ground floors, with MHUV also having 1.23ha of open space.

Plans are for a “green spine” to link the development to public transport (Mango Hill Station would be 400m away) as well as a main street and plaza.

As part of a new intersection from the site on to Anzac Ave, the DA report says “14 trees are required to be removed including 11 mango trees”.

But it adds: “The Applicant has committed to replacing the trees that are removed with new younger trees of the same species”.

“Replacement of the older mango trees that are removed with younger mango trees, with a longer lifespan, will not detract from Anzac Ave but add to the appeal of the thoroughfare.”

The site was Pace Farm, which became one of Australia’s major producers of eggs supplying national supermarkets. The business was sold in 2023.

In 2018, Council approved plans, which remain in force, on the same site for 715 dwellings in 13 towers up to six storeys and office/shops.

But since then, the applicant’s “vision for the site has evolved”, according to the DA report.

It says previous plans “will not deliver the economic and lifestyle benefits associated with a mixed-use urban village”.

The new proposal “represents an opportunity to provide higher density development” close to “significant private and public infrastructure including public transport”.

This DA seeks a “material change of use – preliminary approval” to vary the effect of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme 2016 to “facilitate delivery” of the MHUV.