General News
19 December, 2025
Proposed Housing Development south of Allora
Southern Downs Regional Council has received a development application proposing to create 28 rural residential lots south of Allora.
The application was submitted by Alpha Planning Applications on behalf of applicant
and owner James Pidgeon for the address of 76 Hendon-Goomburra Road, Allora.
The Reconfiguring a Lot application is for five into 28 lots, covering a total of 82 hectares.
The proposed lots vary in size from 1.13 hectares (2.79 acres) to 6.07 hectares (15 acres), averaging 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres).
A planning report submitted as part of the application states that the land is currently zoned rural.
“The existing lots have been historically cleared of all significant stands of vegetation, do not contain areas of remnant/regulated vegetation and the subject site has been used predominately as cultivated farming land,” the planning report says.
“In the past 4 - 5 years the applicant/owner has transformed some of the cultivation land to pasture, as farming/cultivation input costs increase and returns from farming activities decrease; and the applicant intends to transform additional cultivation land to pasture lands in the near future.”
One of the currently existing lots is occupied by a house, large machinery shed, grain silos and hay shed.
The planning report says the sites have access to reticulated electricity and telecommunications, including NBN but not to Council’s reticulated water supply network.
At its nearest points, the subject site is approximately 750 metres to the north-east of the township of Hendon and approximately 2.3 kilometres to the south of the town of Allora.
The proposal includes constructing a section of Hendon-Goomburra Road.
An ‘Economic Needs and Impact Analysis Report’ was also submitted as part of the application.
It includes written statements from local business owners in support of housing developments in the Allora area.
The letters are from Gretta Barton, owner of Bartranz Petroleum, Clint Kenny, Principal of Kenny & Co Realty and Warwick Tickner, Director And Head of Production and Construction Operations at Satake (Denny’s Silos).
The report also includes a map of the area, which suggests the development is conveniently located between Allora, Hendon and Mount Marshall and away from flood-prone areas.
