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HAVE YOUR SAY

on Urban Design Guidelines for The Mill

With integrated smart street lighting to charge your phone and provide WiFi, contoured streetscapes to channel rainfall into self-
watering garden beds and a central plaza for events… It could be the city of the future? Or it could be your backyard!
Because that’s exactly what’s planned for The Mill at Moreton Bay under the proposed development guidelines for this project.
MBRC Mayor Allan Sutherland said the precinct needed to look to the future in its uptake of cutting-edge design and technologies.
“The Mill will be an incubator for innovation, technology and sustainability so it is only fitting that its public spaces should reflect
that with the highest standards of urban design,” he said.
“So we want community feedback on two proposed urban design guidelines which establish innovative benchmarks for streetscapes
and civic spaces.”
The proposed ‘Civic Space and Park Guidelines’ and ‘Streetscape Guidelines’ support The Mill at Moreton Bay Priority Development
Area’s ‘Development Scheme’ and articulate how exemplary urban planning, streetscape, civic space and park design outcomes can
be achieved.
The guidelines will be utilised by the MBRC in the assessment of street, laneway, civic space, public plaza, and park proposals.
“This is a greenfield site that we are going to completely revolutionise, no idea is too wild if it helps improve our local lifestyle and
makes The Mill a vibrant centre of creativity and excitement.
“From an abandoned paper mill site to a masterplanned destination anchored by a full-service university campus, The Mill at
Moreton Bay will bring catalytic change to a critical South East Queensland growth corridor.
“This is a gamechanger that will transform the future of this region.”
Moreton Bay Regional Council Mayor Allan Sutherland said the guidelines would apply to development in the Mill Central and Mill
Green Precincts — home to the new university campus and the ecological conservation area which embraces it.
For more information and to have your say on the proposed Mill Streetscape Guideline and Civic Spaces and Parks Guideline by
visiting www.mbrc.qld.gov.au/have-your-say or viewing the documents in hard copy at any of council’s customer service centres.
Consultation opens Monday, 26 August 2019 and closes COB Friday, 20 September 2019.