Submission: Draft South East Queensland Regional Industrial Lands Strategy

The Australian Logistics Council provided a submission to the Queensland Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning on the Draft South East Queensland Regional Industrial Lands Strategy. The submission supports the Strategy’s objective of securing long-term industrial land supply but emphasises that freight outcomes rely on serviced land, infrastructure sequencing, and network integration—not zoning alone. ALC highlights that only around 20 per cent of zoned industrial land is development-ready, with freight-suitable supply concentrated in a small number of precincts, driving structural undersupply and rising costs. The submission stresses that delayed delivery of enabling infrastructure remains the primary barrier to investment and calls for transparent, freight-aligned infrastructure pipelines to ensure land is operationally viable. It also underscores the importance of integrating industrial land planning with road, rail, port, and aviation networks, including early safeguarding of Ebenezer as SEQ’s principal Inland Rail interface, delivery of dedicated Port of Brisbane freight rail, and protection of a future northern intermodal terminal. ALC recommends stronger statutory protections for freight precincts and planning provisions supporting 24/7 operations, higher productivity vehicles, energy-transition logistics, and resilient, innovation-ready precincts.