Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct EPBC 2022/09383

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED

Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct – Enabling Infrastructure EPBC 2022/09383

PUBLICATION OF FINAL PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTATION UNDER THE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 (EPBC ACT)

The following notice is published pursuant to section 95B(4) of the EPBC Act.

Townsville City Council proposes to construct enabling infrastructure for the Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct (LEIP), an advanced manufacturing, technology and processing hub at Woodstock, 40km south of Townsville. The enabling infrastructure includes:

• construction and operation of a raw water network that includes:
  • 900mm diameter buried pipeline and associated infrastructure from Haberecht Road, Majors Creek to LEIP
  • Raw water storage reservoir, pump station and internal raw water reticulation network within the LEIP
• creation of easements, new road reserve and roadworks construction that includes:
  • upgrades and modifications of Flinders Highway, Glenn Road, Old Flinders Highway, Woodstock Avenue, Jones Road at Woodstock
  • new road construction of No Name Road and Unnamed Road within the LEIP
• construction of a temporary site laydown area for construction site offices and storage of materials, near the intersection of Flinders Highway and Woodstock-Giru Road.

The LEIP enabling infrastructure project was determined to be a Controlled Action under section 75 of the EPBC Act with assessment by Preliminary Documentation. The controlling provisions for the proposed action are Listed threatened species and communities (sections 18 and 18A).  

The public were invited to review and comment on the Preliminary Documentation for this project from 4 October 2023 to 17 October 2023. No comments were received.

The Final Preliminary Documentation can be viewed in the Documents folder to the right of this page.