A Queensland property development has attracted undue attention for its ‘phallic’ layout that was exposed in a planning report.
The impending ‘Everleigh’ estate proposed by Mirvac Queensland will take shape in a Greater Flagstone development zone in Logan City in southern Brisbane.
The masterplan showed 354 residential lots including 162 villas, 12 detached houses, 157 courtyard lots and 23 land lots for additional housing.
The shape of the new development was likened by many to the shape of male genitalia.
Homes to the southern side of the elongated development were arranged in two rounded clusters, while the eastern tip was girt by a loop road shaped like a capital ‘D’.
One social media user joked he could ‘get excited’ about the development.
‘I wonder if someone designed it as a joke and the approval team went with it,’ another suggested.
A planning report for a development in Logan City has gone viral for its unusual shape
The development area is part of Mirvac’s vision for a community near the Flagstone estate near Logan
The report said the layout was informed by the estate’s location.
‘The proposed layout is responsive to its location within the Everleigh community and the areas which it adjoins,’ the report read.
The previously endorsed context plan from 2017 showed the eastern offshoot was approved for standard residential lots.
Urban planner Urbis showed the plan included a neighbourhood park, three linear parks and a couple of lots for a future high school and residential development.
Urbis Director Matt Franzmann said ‘connection’ was central to the Everleigh plan.
‘Connection has been a recurring theme for the project; connecting design features and establishing physical and visual connections has been a driving force in the design evolution,’ he said previously.
‘But more importantly is the desire to create genuine human connection that celebrates community, meaning and a healthy life.’
A biodiversity report in the application documents stated the area contained significant biodiversity values.
The report also stated a critically endangered swamp tree or weeping paperbark (melaleuca irbyana) was found at the site, though it claimed the tree was not of sufficient structure, density or size.
