Protecting our local environment
The Chandler Ward is characterised by areas of natural bushland and numerous parks and conservation reserves.
Local suburbs like Belmont, Burbank, Chandler and Gumdale are often said to be part of Brisbane’s ‘green belt’ or ‘green lungs’.
Brisbane City Council is working to protect these bushland areas for future generations in a number of important ways, including;
- Council has zoned large tracts of land as Environment Protection Areas in the City Plan to prevent further sub-division
- Council has a major tree planting program across Brisbane. More than 2 million trees have already been planted, including local planting sites in Chandler, Carindale and Carina Heights
- Council continues to purchase private land to create new conservation reserves through the Bushland Acquisition Program
Since 1990, the Brisbane City Council has invested more than $45 million into purchasing and protecting bushland within the Chandler Ward.
To date, more than 830 hectares of local bushland has been protected for future generations.
The funds for these purchases were raised through the Bushland Preservation Levy, which was first introduced by former Lord Mayor, Sallyanne Atkinson. The program was significantly boosted under Lord Mayor Campbell Newman and the record levels of investment have continued since then.
Below is a full list of properties purchased by Council locally in the Chandler Ward since the program started:
Bushland Acquisition Program - Chandler Ward
| Suburb | Address | Year | Size (ha) |
| Burbank | 251 Ford Road | 2011 | 14.64 |
| Burbank | 217 Alperton Road | 2011 | 5.7 |
| Burbank | 219 Ford Road | 2011 | 15.99 |
| Burbank | 1439 Mt Gravatt-Capalaba Road | 2010 | 7.42 |
| Burbank | 2/71 Alperton Road | 2010 | 2.64 |
| Burbank | 369 Prout Road | 2010 | 11.25 |
| Burbank | 485 Prout Road | 2010 | 7.02 |
| Burbank | 200 Leacroft Road | 2009 | 4.69 |
| Carina Heights | 326 Pine Mountain Road | 2007 | 2.94 |
| Chandler | 117 Toronto Road | 2009 | 4.08 |
| Carindale | Westbury Place | 2008 | |
| Burbank | 638 Ford Road | 2008 | 2.58 |
| Burbank | 106 Leacroft Road | 2007 | 7.39 |
| Carina Heights | 72 Bendena Tce | 2006 | 2.32 |
| Mt Gravatt East | 284 Pine Mountain Road | 2002 | 0.49 |
| Mackenzie | 328 Mt Petrie Road | 2002 | 12.31 |
| Mackenzie | 322 Mt Petrie Road | 2002 | 12.16 |
| Burbank | 130 Cherbon Street | 2001 | 10.33 |
| Burbank | 48 Marawah Street | 2001 | 2.58 |
| Carindale | 470 Weekes Road | 2000 | 16.19 |
| Carindale | 230 Scrub Road | 1999 | |
| Mackenzie | 386 Mt Petrie Road | 1998 | 12.3 |
| Burbank | 329 Prout Road | 1998 | 12.15 |
| Burbank | 1330 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1998 | 5.13 |
| Burbank | 630 Ford Road | 1998 | 5.5 |
| Burbank | 1655 Mt Cotton Road | 1997 | 23.36 |
| Burbank | 349 Prout Road | 1997 | 10.35 |
| Burbank | 389 Prout Road | 1997 | 11.25 |
| Burbank | 159 Alperton Road | 1997 | 10.0 |
| Burbank | 240 Kloske Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 138 Alperton Road | 1996 | 2.02 |
| Burbank | 100 Jenyns Court | 1996 | 13.58 |
| Burbank | 1440 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 146 Alperton Road | 1996 | 13.87 |
| Burbank | 181 Alperton Road | 1996 | 10.38 |
| Carindale | 478 Weekes Road | 1996 | 10.28 |
| Burbank | 1430 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 137 Alperton Road | 1996 | 10.0 |
| Burbank | 1420 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 1404 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Carindale | 263 Weekes Road | 1996 | 12.03 |
| Burbank | 409 Prout Road | 1996 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 323 Leacroft Road | 1995 | 23.09 |
| Burbank | 105 Prout Road | 1995 | 64.43 |
| Burbank | 440 Ford Road | 1995 | 2.02 |
| Burbank | 100 Longton Court | 1995 | 37.67 |
| Burbank | 450 Ford Road | 1995 | 2.02 |
| Burbank | 155 Prout Road | 1994 | 6.07 |
| Burbank | 135 Prout Road | 1994 | 6.04 |
| Burbank | 1246 Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road | 1994 | 6.0 |
| Burbank | 45 Prout Road | 1994 | 6.92 |
| Burbank | 65 Prout Road | 1994 | 6.17 |
| Burbank | 80 Jenyns Court | 1993 | 25.37 |
| Mansfield / Carindale | Tones Roads | 1992 | 12.0 |
| Burbank | 183 Alperton Road | 1992 | 132.7 |
| Burbank | 1646 Mt Cotton Road | 1992 | 24.09 |
| Burbank | 1636 Mt Cotton Road | 1992 | 20.25 |
| Burbank | 94 Alperton Road | 1992 | 61.84 |
| Burbank | 101 Longton Court | 1992 | 37.65 |
| Carindale | 330 Weekes Road | 1992 | 0.55 |
| Chandler | 143 Toronto Road | 1991 | 4.05 |
| Carindale | 146 Scrub Road | 1991 | 7.5 |