IPSWICH NEEDS 116,000 NEW HOMES BY 2031

The number of new homes in the Ipswich local government area will treble over the next 20 years if the Queensland Government's forecasts are right.

Its draft regional plan for southeast Queensland, released on 7 December, predicts that the Ipswich region will need 116,000 new dwellings by 2031.

Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale's reaction was to declare: "Bring it on."Ipswich wasn't ready 10 years ago, but we are now."

The new regional plan, which will be open to public comment until April next year, proposes that Brisbane's western corridor be the area's next major population growth.

The state's new draft regional plan for southeast Queensland forecasts that 735,500 dwellings need to be built in the region by 2031, a 65 per cent jump on the current number of 1.1 million.

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Source: The Courier Mail 8 December 2008