Our plans for the future
To help us to continue to deliver our important community-based work from our precinct in South Brisbane, GOC leadership has undertaken a master planning process to provide a variety of new community facilities.
After engaging with the GOC community, our neighbours and the wider West End and South Brisbane community from November 2021 to early June 2022, we lodged an application for Ministerial Infrastructure Designation (MID).
Our vision is to be a dynamic and progressive ethnic community engaged with society through culture, care and education. Our proposed master plan will help us to achieve this vision.
We want to continue keeping you updated on our plans.
What does the master plan involve?
The proposed revitalisation of our precinct will enable the GOC to provide new services and increase the capacity of existing services, including:
- more childcare places
- a primary school catering to up to 350 students
- larger and improved GOC Care and administration facilities
- landscaped gathering places to reinforce St George Church as the central point of the precinct
- an archive of cultural and community artefacts.
Artist’s impression of the master plan
What is a Ministerial Infrastructure Designation?
A Ministerial Infrastructure Designation (MID) is an assessment process which provides for the timely delivery of essential community infrastructure, such as schools, hospitals and healthcare services. The MID process is an alternative assessment pathway to lodging a development application with local government, which provides a streamlined, whole-of-government approval process.
A MID will process will help us to:
- establish our new dual stream primary school
- support the ongoing operation of existing community facilities on our site
- provide certainty for us and our neighbours across the delivery timeframes.
We are currently in the decision period of the MID.
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Talk to the project team
Contact if you have any questions at gocmasterplan@leisaprowse.com.au
