Calls to slash red tape to bring more life to Brisbane's riverside

Published Nov 19, 2024, 9:00 PM

There are calls to slash red tape to bring more life, bars and entertainment to Brisbane's riverside. Now, in our Future Brisbane series, partnering with the Courier Mail, we explore the potential legacy of the 2032 games and the vision that could transform our city, into a touch of Europe.

For more, Katrina Blowers reports.

Brisbane may be known as the River City.

Such a great asset for our city.

But is it living up to its name.

It has become really difficult to get approvals for things that would be happening on the river.

Red tape shutting down our waterfront dreams.

There's so many different authorities involved in approvals of stifles innovations and often people with great ideas discover that it's just too hard, and so we need to change that.

The Lord Mayor is suggesting a single River Authority in the lead up to Brisbane twenty thirty two, allowing the city to embrace more events, entertainment precincts and transport options like private water taxis.

Eight years until the Olympics, so there can be a lot that can happen in that time.

While the Games will get tourists here, our famous beaches will entice them to stay longer. There are plans for more beach bars like the one Child at Karawa for the Golden Sunshine Coasts.

We're modeling this with European beach like Nice and places like that, but only with better weather and finer sand.

Brisbane will become a gateway to our far north with new direct flights delivering American tourists to their next voyage. Carnival has seventy one voyages leaving Brisbane in twenty twenty five, with Morton, Ireland, Cans and Early Beach among the beneficiaries of the eight hundred million dollar economic impact. Queensland as a destination is booming right now. A future vision for Brisbane with the River at its heart, Katrina Blowers, seven News