Public parks - trunk infrastructure

Public parks provide opportunities for nature appreciation, fitness activities, youth spaces, social gatherings, events, and water quality solutions compatible with recreation uses.

Investing in public parks is a long-term strategy for Moreton Bay’s sustainable future. This investment will support a thriving region where people want to live, work and play. Great parks provide our communities with their unique identity and a sense of civic pride. Proximity to well-designed and managed parks and green spaces can result in higher property values and have a positive influence on business performance, investor confidence, lifestyle, health, place character and biodiversity.

Public parks within the LGIP network are described by both the scale of the area they service; regional, district or local and the type of functions they deliver; recreation, civic or sports.

Not all Council parks are trunk infrastructure. Our public park trunk infrastructure network includes:

  • recreation parks including foreshore recreation parks - regional, district or local
  • civic parks in plazas, town squares or public spaces - regional, district or local
  • sports parks - regional or district.

You can learn more about our parks by reading Council’s Open Space Strategy 2012-2031.

When Council locates and designs trunk infrastructure parks some of the things that are considered include:

  • land use zoning
  • proportional allocation of parks based on the current population and growth expected within the service area
  • diversity of uses
  • proximity to neighbourhood walking and bike track networks
  • proximity to other related land uses and infrastructure
  • cultural considerations
  • traffic impacts
  • accessibility
  • optimal designs for personal security
  • sustainability
  • flood immunity
  • the character of the place
  • cost. 

Futures parks with indicative land nominations

The current LGIP identifies 38 future public parks. Of these, 20 locations have been nominated as indicative. Indicative land nominations occur where the planning for and design of an item has not reached a point where the land requirements can be specifically identified.

See the list of future parks with indicative land nominations.

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