Council to sell off surplus Wynnum Road, Kingsford Smith Drive land

The total value of the land is redacted in council documents as commercial-in-confidence.

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Acting lord mayor Krista Adams told the council chambers on Tuesday the land would all be sold as it was surplus to the council’s need.

Greens councillor Jonathan Sri, in whose ward part of the Wynnum Road corridor upgrade was in before boundary redistributions, said congestion had not eased after the project’s completion and all of the land resumptions on Lytton Road had not been necessary.

Cr Sri said the council should retain the land for public housing, and noted some residents who had been forced to give up their homes had to leave the area as they could not afford to buy again in the same suburb.

Cr Adams said the council always resumed…