Due to popular demand we’ve made sure the ultimate Christmas light experience returns to Central Ward with The Enchanted Garden at Roma Street Parkland. It’s bigger and better this year - Set amid winding pathways, towering trees and dense plant-life, The Enchanted Garden [...]
Do you want a new dog park in #FortitudeValley As more people choose to call our wonderful area home, it’s important we keep pace with the growing community and your expectations. I have been regularly approached by residents who enjoy apartment living but would like Council to identify an area for [...]
Lord Mayor’s Green Heart Photography Competition The annual Lord Mayor’s Green Heart Photography Competition challenges Brisbane residents to capture creative, emotive and inspiring images of our natural environment. This year we want to see how you interpret the theme ‘Colours of Brisbane’ through an environmental lens. Explore your local park, backyard or natural [...]
#CentralSpringClean Thousands of Brisbane residents are expected to have a spring cleanout this weekend, with Brisbane City Council cutting green waste costs for residents who ready [...]
Brisbane has grown up around the City Reach Waterfront, from its early role as a maritime centre, to the important professional services and lifestyle centre we know today. The City Reach Waterfront Master Plan will set a common vision for the waterfront [...]
Dedicated Cycle and pedestrian lanes New Metro design plans for Victoria Bridge Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has unveiled a new design for the ‘green’ Victoria Bridge, converting it to three lanes on-road for Brisbane Metro vehicles and buses with a dedicated off-road cyclist and pedestrian path, following public consultation. The [...]
As more people choose to call our wonderful area home, it’s important we keep pace with the growing community and your expectations. Late last year I was approached by residents to make improvements to Newstead’s Waterfront Park and in February I went out and listened to the community about how we could make the part [...]
Brisbane City Council’s zipline experience at Mt Coot-tha is one-step closer to taking shape, with detailed designs for the project unveiled, as the project seeks development approval. Councillor Vicki Howard said the zipline would be the first of its kind in Brisbane, with three signature experiences of the Mt Coot-tha forest taking in [...]
Brisbane’s inner-city could soon become a jungle of rooftop greenery, with Brisbane City Council making it easier for new developments to include green open space as part of their the changes to Brisbane’s City Plan were the latest step in implementing Brisbane’s Future Blueprint, which had been shaped based on community feedback received during Council’s Plan [...]
New sports-themed CityCat hits the water Public and Active Transport Chairman Cr Adrian Schrinner has today unveiled Brisbane’s newest sports-themed CityCat, which has been adorned in the eye-catching colours of the ‘International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments’ to celebrate Australia’s first INAS Global Games. Cr Schrinner said the INAS Global Games were [...]
