Welcome to Reedy Creek West Burleigh Projects

Boral has lodged a Development Application with Gold Coast City Council. Once that application has been uploaded onto Council website we will provide a link to all documentation here.

• Read a message from the Boral CEO
• Read our media release
• What's different in this application?
• Read more: Quarry Needs Report extract
• Learn more about our projects

The development application components sought for approval are summarised below:

Through this development application, Boral is offering an innovative solution to build capacity and capability for the Gold Coast to deal with this growth challenge through:

1. Unlocking the State’s Key Resource Area 96 as part of the Reedy Creek Key Resource Area Project (RCKRA Project) to:

• maintain a continued supply of local quarry materials of up to 1.2million tonnes annually in the southern Gold Coast area to meet the projected demand from the building and construction industry;
• reduce the impact of additional 31,000 truck movements on the M1; and
• reduce additional transport costs and maintain a competitive market, which has a nexus to housing delivery and affordability.

2. Providing critical waste infrastructure as part of the West Burleigh Construction and Waste Resource Recovery Project (WBCWRR Project) to:

• rehabilitate the existing void at West Burleigh Quarry through the disposal of residual non-putrescible construction waste to create a safe and stable landform in a timely manner;
• reducing reliance on the City’s diminishing putrescible landfill airspace (non-private and private);
• avoid the need to transport it elsewhere at significant congestion or environmental costs; and
• positively contribute to the Local and State Government’s waste management strategies.

Key Project drivers

The growth challenge facing the Gold Coast underpins the strategic drivers for these two critical infrastructure projects, which seek to:

1. Replace the supply of Boral’s existing WBQ, which currently meets approximately 25% of the demand for hard rock aggregates on the southern half of the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales.
2. Unlock the last undeveloped hard rock Key Resource Area (KRA) within the Gold Coast Local Government Area to continue the supply of up to 1.2Mt of greywacke resource per annum to replace the supply from KRA 70 located at WBQ.
3. Provide an innovative solution to deal with overburden generated from the RCKRA Project through  its use in the WBCWRR Project, which in turn allows Boral to achieve a meaningful reduction in the disturbance footprint and resultant impacts on mapped environmental values.
4. Support the required rehabilitation of the existing void spaces at the WBQ as required under Boral’s existing EA EPPR00810513.
5. Continue to reprocess Boral’s concrete waste and recycled asphalt products that can be used in the manufacturing of Boral’s various construction materials, particularly when governments are now mandating – and customers are requesting – use of recycled materials in road, infrastructure, and building construction.
6. Providing a non-putrescible construction waste landfill that can be used for the disposal of construction and demolition (C&D) waste and dry commercial and industrial (C&I) waste streams. This avoids the need to either rely on the Council’s diminishing putrescible landfill air space or transporting it elsewhere at significant congestion and environmental cost.
7. Assist with C&D waste and dry C&I waste recycling on the Gold Coast and within the broader SEQ region.