ALP councillor Steve Griffiths has backed federal LNP member for Ryan, Jane Prentice, in urging the federal government to purchase the former Toowong ABC site, a motion that was lost.
Ms Prentice wrote to Scott Morrison urging him to purchase and return the site to green space, saying “with the plans for ever increasing high rise development in the local area I feel it is important that local residents be afforded an open space for all to enjoy.”
Despite a successful challenge by locals against three apartment complexes proposed to be built on the site, development company Sunland said in January that a new development was being prepared for the site which it bought for $20 million in 2013.