Developer contributed assets top $52 million in a year in Moreton Bay

Published 12 September 2025

• City of Moreton Bay ratepayers and residents will benefit from $52.9 million in contributed assets made by developers during the 2024/25 financial year
• Contributions include millions of dollars' worth of land, roads and stormwater infrastructure
• The contributions are a key part delivering well-planned neighbourhoods that meet the needs of the City’s booming population

Ratepayers and residents will benefit from $52.9 million in developer contributed assets received by City of Moreton Bay last financial year, including new roads, stormwater infrastructure and park equipment.

The substantial contributions take Council’s total value of developer contributed assets over the past three years to $168 million.

In the 2024/25 financial year alone, these assets included $31.8 million in stormwater infrastructure, $13.6 million in transport infrastructure, and $6.7 million in land.

Mayor Peter Flannery said these contributions are critical in ensuring new developments were adequately serviced – and ratepayers and the wider community benefited from growth.

“As one of the fastest growing local government areas in Australia, it’s important we facilitate smart developments that service our booming population and deliver value for ratepayers,” he said.

“It’s only fair that developers proportionately contribute to the upgrading of Council-owned infrastructure networks impacted by the additional demand generated by their new developments.

“While these contributions are proportionate, they are often substantive and add up – last financial year, for instance, the contributions delivered 23.3km of new roads, nearly 33 hectares of land acquisition for open space or environmental purposes, 11 hectares of land acquisition for parks, and nearly $650,000 in park equipment.”

Under the Planning Act 2016, Councill can require new developments to make either financial contributions as infrastructure charges or as contributed assets as a component of the development approval.

Developers make monetary contributions to Council through infrastructure charges. These charges are directly invested into Council’s capital works program and in the 2024/25 financial year amounted to approximately $36.95 million.

Mayor Flannery said assets delivered by developers directly impacted how developing areas were provided with new and upgraded infrastructure.

“While developers are sometimes viewed as the sole beneficiary of their projects, the reality is that the contributions they make to Council whether financial or in the form of assets, such as roads and parks, deliver long-term benefits to ratepayers and residents,” he said.

“These contributions are a key part of ensuring we continue to deliver well-planned neighbourhoods that meet the needs of our growing communities.”