Peregian Active Street Update

Jessica Phillips39:14

All right, let me move on to the reports for action now. And the first item for action is the Peregian active street update. Item 72.5.

Frank Wilkie39:28

Madam Chair, may I have a declaration? Yes. Can we get it up the screen? Thank you. I, Councillor Frank Wilkie, inform the meeting that I have received conflict of interest for item 7.251 of the Peregian active street update on this agenda as the matter involves a proposal for a new footpath in Lorikeet drive, Peregian. And I, as a close relative to my mother, live in the nearby streets that connect onto Lorikeet drive. Although can make a decision in the public interest to avoid perceptions of a conflict of interest, I choose to leave the meeting room while the matter is discussed and voted upon.

Good morning Councillors, thank you for the opportunity to present. At the Ordinary Meeting held on the 18th of June 2026 staff presented an extensive report providing a project update and recommendations on the bridge in active street. This was on the back of extensive amount of work and community consultation undertaken as early as 2020 through the Walking and Cycling Strategy and high priority corridor study. At that meeting Councillors resolved not to proceed with the active street in its proposed form and determined whether available grant funding could be used to deliver practical infrastructure improvements consistent with priorities expressed by the community. Following this decision the staff met and developed a new scope of works utilising the feedback received through the community consultation. The revised scope of work excludes traffic calming measures, raised priority crossings, formalised car parking, protection road surface treatments and reduce speed limit measures and instead focuses on delivering an improved off-road pathway network and associated infrastructure including the new pathway, five curve build out to avoid existing utilities, vegetation and retaining structures and an upgrade to the pathway south of the lorikeet Escarpment Park bridge, Birch landscaping works, wayfinding signage and other ancillary improvements. Early discussions with the grant funding bodies indicated that they were supportive of this revised scope and subsequently Councillor staff submitted formal variation requests on the 14th of July South East Queensland funding body approved the proposed scope variation extension of time. A formal response from the Federal active transport fund remains outstanding however formal advice received on the 17th of September indicated that the proposed scope variation has been escalated to the minister's office for consideration and as a result of that determination could take up to a few months. They also indicate the project to be supported it would need to include a raised body crossing of Pitta Street and even then it was still sort of up in the air as to whether it would be approved this report is proposing that the works commence to avoid any further delays caused by waiting for the ATF funding. The program is currently scheduled with tender in January. Looking to award a contract in March and commence construction shortly after the Easter break with the aims of delivering the project before construction goes into the west season. Thank you very with the scope I'll also just touch on the exclusion is the formalised car parking with a focus on reducing the impact of car parking so.

Jessica Phillips90:01

Thank you welcome back everybody um from our short adjournment and we've returned to um an item the bridging active street update 10.2.1 and we're currently in a of a procedural motion by Councillor Wilson when it comes up on the screen.