Caggara House

Project

Five storey affordable housing project

Location

Bothwell Street, Mt Gravatt East, Brisbane

Hoxton Docks on the R

Project

Winner of 2017 Antepavillion Award, UK – temporary demonstration project of rooftop habitation

Location

Haggerston, UK

480 Queen Street

Project

Commercial Office and Retail

Location

Brisbane, Australia

PARKROYAL on Pickerin

Project

Hotel

Location

Singapore

180 Brisbane

Project

Commercial Office and Retail

Location

Brisbane, Australia

Legion House

Project

Commercial

Location

Sydney, Australia

The Interlace

Project

Residential

Location

Singapore

Central Park Sydney

Project

Urban Village

Location

Sydney, New South Wales

Gasworks Plaza

Project

Mixed use precinct

Location

Newstead, Qld

City Lane

Project

Retail

Location

Townsville, Qld

Howard Smith Wharves

Project

Hotel, Retail, Parkland

Location

Brisbane, Qld

Planning for Brisbane

Plenty of Aussies of a certain age will no doubt remember the beloved Australian children’s nightmare fuel TV show, Round the Twist. An episode that many of us watched during...

How is your city reim

The Government of Singapore recently announced its 2030 Green Plan, a whole-of-nation movement to combat the effects of climate change. The Green Plan sets goals which will affect Singaporeans in...

The summer storm, usu

Meteorologists predicted La Nina would bring a stormy summer to Brisbane this year and they were not wrong. The Brisbane storm season really did brew up a pretty impressive super...

It’s a Win for YIMB

BCC have progressed the City Plan amendments to enable rooftop shade structures in residential and centre zones without triggering another storey by definition, generally in line with YIMBY Qld’s Shady...

The value of flexibil

Ever wonder why your pesky neighbour got away with building 3-storeys when the rules clearly state a maximum of 2? Here we look at why Development Controls are and should...

YIMBY Qld is shedding

Beddown and other forms of social and affordable housing require a yes in my back yard, or YIMBY mindset more than any other form of development. While luxury and market...

The World’s Gre

The World’s Greenest residential building is coming to Brisbane! and includes over 20,000 plants….? Wait… Brisbane? YES! you read that correctly. ARIA Property Group’s ambitious, bold and innovative proposal –...

We are reaching fever

The 80’s introduced us to the mullet, leg warmers, spandex and …. the NIMBY. Fast forward to the 2010’s and we’ve seen the battle in our suburbs reaching fever pitch,...

From Destruction to D

Today, Saturday 11th July, is World Population Day.  It seeks to “focus attention on the urgency and importance if population issues.” “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the world’s...

Bad TV News promo mis

The developer vs community narrative continues on! This week, a sensationalist television report took aim at ‘rooming accommodation’. The false claims in promotion advertising stated ‘rooming accommodation’ as ‘units’ which...

Building car parks st

Oh, that dreaded morning commute by car during peak hour. The traffic snarls, stopping and starting and slowly, very slowly. At least I could try and sip my all-important morning...

COVID-19 proves multi

Fitness crazes, aren’t they iconic? Who can ever forget those vigorous 80’s aerobics workouts? Those outrageous Fluro-coloured outfits, overzealous instructors and Jane Fonda’s best-selling VHS home workout that supposedly toned...

Why who pays for the

The great ‘Toilet paper’ debacle of 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, had many household members set out for Brisbane shops and supermarkets desperate to secure multi-packs or even a roll...

Let’s Talk Abou

As we work towards reducing the gender pay gap in Australia, we are far from creating equal opportunities for women, as we expand the gap through other means. Celebrating Women...

A house or high rise,

From today, our housing choices will be limited in Brisbane. Today is the start of Exclusionary Zoning in Brisbane.  What does that mean? It means that from today, the majority of...

YIMBY Submission Sand

YIMBY Queensland has lodged a submission to Brisbane City Council’s draft Sandgate district neighbourhood plan. The submission includes reasons for support, areas for improvement and recommendations to achieve best practice...

Brisbane, is sprawl o

While global cities are responding to changing lifestyles, affordability and environmental challenges by adapting their zoning and housing policies, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction.  We are...

CREATING HEALTHY AND

YIMBY Qld congratulate the Queensland Government for taking the initiative to prepare and undertake stakeholder consultation about the Model Code for Neighbourhood Design, under the Creating Healthy and Active Communities...

Objection to proposed

YIMBY Qld have lodged a submission with Brisbane City Council requesting not to proceed with the proposed Major Amendment Package H to the Brisbane City Plan to restrict townhouses and...

There is no place lik

Since when, in Australia is living at home a luxury available to just a few? By home, we mean a place you call your home. For some of us, it’s...

Save Housing Choice f

If you SUPPORT housing AFFORDABILITY, CHOICE and DIVERSITY, we urge you to OBJECT to the ban on townhouses in low density residential areas of Brisbane, as proposed in Major Amendment...

YIMBY Qld warns that

YIMBY Qld CEO Natalie Rayment joined Steve Austin on ABC Drive to discuss all things parking, in particular Brisbane City Council’s current proposal to amend City Plan to increase car...

Positive submission f

If you SUPPORT urban renewal and the revitalisation of under-utilised infill land around an inner suburbs railway station (Albion station), HATE sitting in traffic, WANT improved green space, connectivity and...

YIMBY says latest cit

YIMBY Qld have asked Brisbane City Council to reconsider the draft amendments to the Emerging Community Zone and widen the opportunities for car sharing. The Major Amendment Package E to...

Celebrating Women –

In recognition of International Women’s Day, we would like to highlight some of the very important facts when it comes to housing inequality, housing affordability and homelessness among women in...

Brisbane’s ban on t

Brisbane City Council’s proposed temporary ban on townhouses (groups of duplexes, triplexes and rowhouses) is taking Brisbane back to the 1960s! It’s out-of-date planning that will make living in Brisbane...

Don’t miss the trai

If you HATE sitting in traffic, If you SUPPORT more homes close to frequent public transport, If you WANT to improve cycling conditions in a known Brisbane black spot for...

Dare to Say Yes!

If you agree that Mt Coot-tha Zipline is an excellent project which will benefit our community and economy we urge you to have a say!  This is your last chance...

Are we missing the po

One of the major goals for YIMBY Qld is to balance the conversation when it comes to opinions and decisions on ‘what’s best’ for our city. One such conversation in...

Shady Rooftops Are In

This year, YIMBY Qld has had its first major win in relation to planning laws with the Brisbane City Council set to overturn restrictive rules to stop homeowners and developers...

Brisbane needs homes�

An entire generation faces the prospect of being left out in the cold if the Brisbane City Council’s (BCC) proposed ban on townhouses gets the nod from the State Government....

Affordability putting

Australian cities are sliding down the rankings of the world’s best cities according to one of the most respected international surveys. The 12th annual Monocle Top 25 Global Cities survey...

A great place to live

By Marnie Wood   Brisbane is a great place to live, work and relax. It’s no wonder our city is growing, with more people than ever wanting to call Brisbane...

Sorry, we’re cl

By Natalie Rayment   Sorry, Brisbane is closed for future development, please try Ipswich, Logan or Caboolture. That seems to be the message emanating from the closet NIMBY’s in our...

Do Our Planning Laws

By Natalie Rayment   Visit any bar this weekend and the debate will no doubt rage over who should open for Australia in the next test match, who will finish...

It’s All About

  By Natalie Rayment   What would you be willing to trade-off to live in the city you want? Would you sacrifice affordability for more greenspace or better transport options...

Lack of Understanding

Plan Your Brisbane Intergenerational Forum with Marnie Wood A lack of understanding of current planning systems is leading to growing frustrations in our local communities. This was evident during the...

An Open Mind on Priva

By Natalie Rayment Lazing by the river on a Sunday afternoon in a grassy park. The sun dances on the water. Yet another glorious Spring day in Brisbane. Other people...

Bulldoze the Orphanag

By Natalie Rayment “We’re on a mission from God!” Elwood Blues proclaims in the 1980 classic film, “The Blues Brothers”.  Their holy mission is to save the orphanage from being...

“Can I be your

By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium.  In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. ...

Cutting Back on Our C

By Natalie Rayment While cutting back on avolattes may help some people get into the housing market faster, real affordability gains can actually be made by cutting back on another...

We’re Back! Brisban

By YIMBY Qld While Brisbane performed poorly in last year’s livability benchmarks, the “globally minded metropolis” is back on the list.  Brisbane has ranked 23 on the highly regarded Monocle...

Battle of the Acronym

By Natalie Rayment You know acronyms have taken over the English language when the FBI releases a guide to its agents of the thousands of new acronyms and shortenings the...

Three Cheers for Grac

By Natalie Rayment ‘First things first. Get the champagne,’ said Winston Churchill in 1931. It’s time to celebrate a win for good development outcomes in Brisbane. Earlier this week, the...

Car Sharing is Caring

By Natalie Rayment Traffic congestion is one of the top three concerns that people have about population growth in South East Queensland*.   During recent community consultation for the Draft City...

Pritzker Win for Desi

By Natalie Rayment Only two days ago, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes were awarded the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is generally known as the...

Brisbane’s Greatest

By Natalie Rayment Construction of a new office tower, residential tower and retail building is happening right now at 300 George St in Brisbane’s CBD for the “Brisbane Quarter” Development....

What I Learned from C

By Jack Briant This post is the first in our “What I Learned from…” travel series based on the experiences of built environment professionals and city enthusiasts as they discover...

Retirement Living and

By Natalie Rayment You’ve lived in this suburb for most of your adult life. Your kids grew up here and your friends are close by. But, the house has become...

Why does ‘Fear

By Natalie Rayment A “tragic street lamp”, “ungainly skeleton” and “a hole-riddled suppository”. This is how protesters once described the proposed Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There was even a...

Fonzie Flats and the

By Natalie Rayment Being the ‘King of Cool’, if Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were a millennial he would have a deconstructed coffee and some smashed avo for breakfast at the local...

What happened with We

By Natalie Rayment The community initiated a state ministerial call-in of a development approval for the West Village Project at West End.   A ministerial call-in allows the relevant Minister to...

Lack of Green Space a

Thank you to Jane Pinder and the team at The Courier-Mail for a great piece at the weekend that revealed good development actually leads to increased greenspace rather than destroying...

Evolution of Newstead

By Natalie Rayment It is a continuously evolving precinct within 3kms of Brisbane’s CBD that used to be home to the commander of the Beagle (of Charles Darwin fame) and...

Singapore – a true

By Natalie Rayment “Our challenge was to create a vital public place at the district – urban scale, in other words, to address the issue of mega scale and invent...

Signs of YIMBY from t

By Natalie Rayment You know your movement is gaining traction when the US President gets behind it. Media outlets following last month’s world first YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard)...

Shaping the Conversat

By Natalie Rayment What will South East Queensland look like in 50 years’ time?  We know many of us would like to see people riding hover boards Marty McFly style...

Finding YIMBY Austral

By Natalie Rayment The YIMBY, or Yes In My Back Yard movement is gaining momentum around the globe, and most people don’t realise they’re a part of it. It’s a...

Let’s talk about th

By Natalie Rayment Sara Maxana posed a serious question to the world’s NIMBY practitioners when she spoke at the world’s first YIMBY conference in Boulder Colarado. Sara was telling her...