One of the region’s elite golf courses, already embroiled in a multi-million-dollar legal battle with Logan City Council, is again being victimised by planners.
Meadowbrook Golf Course is seeking compensation for business lost after council built a sewer line underneath the course, sending a previous leaseholder bankrupt.
Now, the club said council was “up to its old tricks”.
Meadowbrook Golf Club director Tom Linskey said neither the club, nor residents, were given adequate consultation time on a project to widen Loganlea Road.
“Council does not give up trying to destroy us,” Mr Linskey said.
Loganlea Road is set to be widened to six lanes at a cost of $77.7 million.
The project is jointly funded by Logan City Council and the federal government’s Infrastructure Investment Program and is managed by council via contractor SEE Civil.
Originally, the contractor sought to have equipment stored inside the golf course grounds but have since negotiated with council to use land just outside the course.
Mr Linskey said this would create dust and poor aesthetics, which in turn would discourage people from visiting the golf course during construction.
Local resident, Mark Sinclair, whose home is next to the supposedly proposed parking space for SEE Civil vehicles, said the plan was “not a good look”.
“I’m not happy about where [the vehicles are] going,” Mr Sinclair said.
“It doesn’t look good for the houses.”
He said the vehicles and equipment, both next to his house and outside the golf club, should be stored on the vacant block across the road instead.
“Directly across the road is a massive, cleared area… about the size of a football field,” he said.
But Mr Sinclair said he didn’t expect much to change.
“I don’t think there’s much that can be done about it.”
Mr Sinclair, who has lived in his home for two years, said he was not included in a consultation process.
When approached for comment by MyCityLogan, a council spokesperson suggested there was public consultation, or at least public announcement, regarding the road works.
“Council commenced engagement with impacted residents, businesses and tenants in 2020 as part of project development and detailed design of the road upgrade,” the spokesperson said.
But Mr Linskey said he first became aware of the project when he received a flyer in his letterbox in the middle of March.
Council said the flyers were distributed in early February.
“Council distributed more than 1100 flyers to residents in Slacks Creek, Loganlea and Meadowbrook in early February to advise of upcoming roadworks. Businesses, schools and clubs were also notified,” the council spokesperson said.
“Electronic message signs have been on roadsides since early March.”
The spokesperson said council also held a ‘meet the team’ event in March for local residents to ask questions and learn more about the upgrade.
The upgrade of Loganlea Road is expected to be finished by the end of 2024.
