A new large lot subdivision has been approved by the Ipswich council across two properties on Tarana Avenue at Thagoona.
The 14 lot subdivision is defined by distinct building envelopes on 11 of the new parcels of land to limit the clearing of core koala food and habitat trees, particularly on the north eastern portion of the properties.
The two existing properties on the land addressed as 11 Tarana Avenue (owned by Tarana Projects Pty Ltd) and 19 – 27 Tarana Avenue (owned by Michael Krause) currently contain homes and outbuildings.
Those homes will be retained on the lots with frontage to Tarana Avenue. Another allotment has been set as aside as a stormwater detention area.
The remaining 11 allotments, which are to be accessed off a new internal road, will be available for new housing. And it is those allotments which will be limited by building envelopes not only to cater to the presence of koala food and habitat trees, but due to a bushfire hazard overlay, the historic underground mining activities and a small stand of the endangered Melaleuca irbyana paperbark trees.
The application to subdivide the combined area of 7.13ha was submitted to council in July 2023 and approved in December, last year.
According to the diagrams accompanying the council approval, the new allotments will range in size from 3,750sqm to 4,010sqm with the exception of Lot 1 which contains one of the existing residences (1.12ha).
The approval was granted based on the developers meeting an array of conditions.
Tarana Avenue is to be upgraded with kerb and channeling and drainage along the frontage of the subdivision and streetlighting is to be installed along the internal road.
Both sides of the new internal road reserve are to be landscaped with koala food trees.
All allotments are to be provided with adequate access to a water supply for firefighting purposes.
All new housing is to be designed and constructed according to the recommendations of the mining report which accompanied the application.
Any structures or improvements on each of the new housing allotments are to be built only within the defined building envelopes.
Dog proof fencing is to be installed around the boundary of each building envelope but any other fencing on the allotments is to be ‘koala permeable’.
