Continued local supply of up to 1.2Mtpa of readily available construction materials to support the Gold Coast construction industry to keep a downward pressure on increasing construction costs and support cost-effective development into the future.  

Reduce the impact of additional 31,000 truck movements per year on the M1.  

Reduce additional transport costs and maintain a competitive market, which has a nexus to housing delivery and affordability.  

The efficient rehabilitation of the WBQ through providing a short-to-medium-term solution for overburden generated from the RCKRA Project, which in turn allows Boral to achieve a meaningful reduction in the RCKRA Project disturbance footprint and resultant impacts on mapped environmental values.  

The efficient rehabilitation of the WBQ through providing a medium-term solution for the disposal of residual C&D and dry C&I waste streams and thereby, avoiding the need to either rely on the City’s diminishing putrescible (non-private and private) landfill air space or transporting the waste elsewhere at significant congestion and environment costs.  

The beneficial reuse of this strategic landholding that will support a long-term solution for the on-going resource recovery to assist with C&D and dry C&I waste recycling on the Gold Coast and broader SEQ Region and, once landfilling is completed, unlocking suitably located employment generating land in the southern part of the City that will support the City’s population growth.  

Ecological functionality net gain outcomes associated with the RCKRA and WBCWRR Projects are wide- ranging and include protection and rehabilitation of contiguous areas of regenerating native vegetation communities, waterways and threatened species habitat.   

Net gain outcomes centred on threatened species habitat enhancement, including:  

Protections associated with the RCKRA and WBCWRR Projects will include active management of threatening processes found to be compromising ecological value and function (such as weed incursion and unauthorised public access) and registration of instruments, such as covenants, to allow for conservation in perpetuity.   

Site operations will be underpinned by a series of environmental management plans (including a rehabilitation management plan, fauna management plan, flora management plan and a site-based management plan) all geared toward achieving and maintaining net gains in ecological functionality.