Facilitate infrastructure to underpin industrial land use

Infrastructure has a pivotal role in facilitating the economic transformation of the region away from emissions-intensive industries, maximising the local benefits from clean energy. It is crucial that the region’s existing and potential industrial areas flourish and adapt into innovative ‘clean and green’ economic anchors. These industrial developments need to coexist with the growing residential areas, emphasising the need for robust planning and strategic investment and alignment with existing policies.

Through priority actions outlined in SEQIS, a proactive and coordinated approach to both industrial land use planning and infrastructure planning holds the key to energy transformation and the reuse and reprocessing of materials used throughout Queensland’s energy transformation journey. This approach ensures that prospective industrial areas are equipped with the necessary infrastructure to meet the evolving demands of a transitioning economy.

The priority actions will coordinate the infrastructure needed to support and catalyse growth in industrial areas, ensuring Queensland’s infrastructure investments are aligned across government and industry to harness the opportunities of a transforming economy.