Growth Management
Growth

Growth management

The department leads a coordinated Queensland Government approach to growth management.

Managing change and balancing growth, development and infrastructure provision is complex. As the state’s population grows, so too will demand for infrastructure, competition for land, the need for innovative responses to affordability and sustainability challenges and for regionalisation.

There will be social, environmental and economic impacts of growth across the state. Pressure will be particularly felt on the coastline, in emerging resource communities and in South East Queensland.

The Queensland Growth Management Summit

In March 2010, the Queensland government held the Queensland Growth Management Summit to consult with key stakeholders and the wider community about growth management considerations in Queensland. The purpose of the event was to generate ideas for effectively managing growth in our state and to identify key priority areas.

Ideas from the summit were condensed and committed to, in the Queensland government’s response document Shaping Tomorrow’s Queensland: A response to the Queensland Growth Management Summit (PDF icon 973 KB).

Growth Management Queensland

Following the Queensland Growth Management Summit, Growth Management Queensland (GMQ) was developed to bring together growth program coordination, planning policy, planning services, building and development, transit orientated development and infrastructure program management functions of the department and oversee growth management initiatives across government.

Growth management initiatives

Following research and consultation, including through the 2010 Growth Management Summit, the Queensland government has identified six priority areas for growth management:

The Queensland government has released the Shaping Tomorrow’s Queensland: A response to the Queensland Growth Management Summit (PDF icon 973 KB).