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The Bromelton State Development Area (SDA) supports the growing demand for greenfield land in south-east Queensland for high-impact, difficult-to-locate and rail-dependent industries, such as freight and logistics operations.
Declared in 2008, the 15,610-hectare Bromelton SDA is a defined area of land suitable for medium to large scale industrial development.
With access to the standard gauge rail network along the Sydney to Brisbane rail corridor, it offers an easy pathway to intrastate and interstate markets.
Benefits
- Land suited to medium to large-scale, large-footprint industry
- Established industry precinct with opportunities for co-location
- Connections to other states and territories and areas of Queensland through the national standard-gauge rail network
- Efficient processing of applications and requests
- Access to a skilled workforce in the Beaudesert and southern Brisbane areas
- Planning processes targeted for industrial development
- Existing and future industrial uses will not be encroached upon by incompatible and sensitive land uses
Location
The Bromelton SDA is located within the Scenic Rim Regional Council area, about:
- 6km west of the Beaudesert township
- 75km south of Brisbane.
Industry suitability
Industries suitable for the Bromelton SDA are those that are high-impact, difficult-to-locate and rail-dependent.
About 1,800 hectares of the Bromelton SDA is designated for:
- large-lot industrial uses requiring direct access to the national standard-gauge rail network
- freight and logistics operations (major intermodal freight terminal)
- medium and large-scale manufacturing and warehousing activities with road and/or rail requirements
- industry support services, freight and logistics/transport servicing depots
- high-impact and difficult-to-locate industries that require separation from non-industrial uses due to the potential for off-site impacts.
Industries already established in the Bromelton SDA include:
- SCT Logistics – a $30 million intermodal rail freight facility and warehouses on land situated adjacent to the Sydney-Brisbane rail line
- GELITA Australia Pty Ltd – the Australian plant of the GELITA Group manufactures gelatine which is sold as edible gelatine for food industry uses
- A J Bush & Sons (Manufactures) Pty Ltd – established in 1993, A J Bush & Sons are recognised internationally as a leading rendering industry producing protein meal and tallow. They utilise onsite clean energy practices by recycling methane content biogas captured from covered anaerobic lagoons to generate electricity for power and recycle wastewater for irrigation on their substantial landholdings
- Beaudesert Central Waste Management Facility – a waste transfer station operated by the Scenic Rim Regional Council
- Bromelton Quarry – a hard rock quarry established in 2000 which supplies blue rock to the regional area
- The Neilsen Group – a quarry supplying general quarry and gravel products to the regional area
- Quickcell Technology Products Pty Ltd – a concrete manufacturer established in 1993 producing prestressed and precast concrete products.
Success stories
SCT Logistics
The Coordinator-General approved SCT Logistics’ proposal for a material change of use for high impact industry (intermodal rail freight facility and warehouses). This led to SCT Logistics building a $30 million freight terminal at the Bromelton SDA.
Read more about this success story SCT Logistics: open for business in Bromelton.
Delivery of infrastructure and economic development
Delivery of critical infrastructure within the Bromelton SDA supports future development and economic growth. It provides opportunities to build on the momentum of current development activities by major landowners in the SDA. It’s also vital for industry looking to establish within the Bromelton SDA.
Infrastructure delivered includes:
- a trunk water main
- the Beaudesert Town Centre Bypass.
A 6.1km trunk water main was constructed to provide a reticulated water supply to industry precincts in the Bromelton SDA. It connects the Beaudesert Water Treatment Plant to the Bromelton SDA.
This $6.5 million project was joint funded by the state government, Scenic Rim Regional Council and Queensland Urban Utilities. Funding of close to $3.3 million was approved for stage 1 through the Building our Regions Regional Infrastructure Fund.
The Beaudesert Town Centre Bypass was delivered to divert heavy vehicles around the town centre. It provides a dedicated route with improved access to the Mount Lindsay Highway, servicing the increasing freight demand in the Bromelton SDA.
The $27.5 million bypass was completed by the Queensland Government in partnership with the Scenic Rim Regional Council.
The Inland Rail project is important for the future development and economic growth of the Bromelton SDA. It will connect Melbourne to Brisbane via inland New South Wales.
Joining the northern extremity of the Bromelton SDA, it will provide a rail freight corridor connecting south-east Queensland to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. This will have competitive flow-on benefits for freight and logistic operations situated in the Bromelton SDA.
View the Queensland Government’s approach to infrastructure planning in areas of high growth, future economic development or strategic importance, such as the Bromelton SDA.
The Office of the Coordinator-General provides case management services to assist with the delivery of eligible projects in the Bromelton SDA. This is an important role to help strengthen and support economic development of Queensland's regions, including the Bromelton SDA.
Case management services include:
- project facilitation
- connections with key stakeholders
- negotiations across all levels of government.
Activating the Bromelton SDA – SEQ City Deal
On 21 March 2022, the Australian Government, Queensland Government and Council of Mayors (SEQ) signed the South-East Queensland City Deal (City Deal).
A key commitment under the City Deal is to develop a business case by quarter 4, 2026. It will determine what infrastructure planning, sequencing, prioritisation and capital investment is required to activate the Bromelton SDA.
The Coordinator-General is leading this work for the Queensland Government, in partnership with the Scenic Rim Regional Council and the Australian Government. The commitment is funded at $5 million with contributions across all levels of government.
A program approach has been adopted as the best method to advance the activation of the Bromelton SDA.
The Activating the Bromelton SDA program (the program) will deliver the business case to activate development through infrastructure prioritisation and capital investment. This will support the long-term development of the Bromelton SDA and accelerate private sector investment.
The program will also deliver a strategy for the activation of the Bromelton SDA to meet the future growth pressures and economic development required to support that growth.
- December 2024 – Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the program completed, including:
- engagement with key infrastructure providers in the Bromelton SDA
- formation of Technical Working Group.
- May 2025 – Phase 3 (market and industrial needs analysis) commenced, including market sounding with:
- industry stakeholders
- investors
- developers
- infrastructure providers.
- July 2025 – Phase 3 (conceptual structure planning and infrastructure study) commenced
- Q3-Q4 2025 – Phase 3 (market and industrial needs analysis) to be completed and Phase 4 to commence
- Q1 2026 – Phase 3 (conceptual structure planning and infrastructure study) to be completed
- Q4 2026 – Phase 4 to be completed
Planning and development
The Bromelton SDA is managed by the Coordinator-General. It supports the economic development in a way that considers environmental, cultural and social values, as well as existing industry and surrounding infrastructure within the region.
The SDA is divided into 6 land use precincts and one sub-precinct. This ensures high-impact, difficult-to-locate and rail dependent industries are appropriately located and buffered by other industrial and rural land uses.
Industry precincts within the Bromelton SDA includes land designated for:
- rail dependent industry
- medium to high-impact industry
- special industry.
Other precincts within the Bromelton SDA provide for:
- a Bromelton local service centre to accommodate limited retail and commercial activities
- transition from rural activities to higher impact industrial activities and separation between industrial activities and sensitive receptors
- low-impact rural and agricultural activities that are compatible with nearby more intensive industrial development and does not adversely impact sensitive uses outside the SDA.
The Bromelton SDA regulation map (
1.8 MB) defines the boundary of the declared Bromelton SDA.
The Bromelton SDA development precinct map ( 642.9 KB) forms part of the development scheme and identifies the precincts within the Bromelton SDA.
The Bromelton State Development Area Development Scheme ( 900.3 KB) is a regulatory document that controls planning and development within the Bromelton SDA. The current version was approved in December 2017.
The development scheme includes the:
- strategic vision – sets the policy direction and forms the basis of delivering appropriate development and economic outcomes within the Bromelton SDA
- overall objectives for development – provides the outcomes for development in the Bromelton SDA
- development precincts – designates land for particular uses, e.g. infrastructure, industrial, environmental management
- SDA-wide assessment criteria – outlines assessment criteria relating to infrastructure, environment, built form, landscaping, transport, engineering and design outcomes.
It also contains a development assessment framework for making, assessing and deciding applications and requests relating to development within the Bromelton SDA. The most common is an SDA application for a material change of use (MCU).
The development scheme is supported by a public consultation policy ( 136.0 KB) that provides information on matters the Coordinator-General may consider when determining whether public consultation of an SDA application is required.
The Coordinator-General assesses and decides all SDA applications and requests within the Bromelton SDA. The Scenic Rim Regional Council is responsible for assessing and deciding other assessable development such as reconfiguring a lot and operational work.
Understand how to make an SDA application or request including pre-lodgement consideration and the relevant fees and access the online application form.
The Bromelton SDA development scheme was amended in December 2017. Previous version of the Bromelton SDA development scheme:
- Bromelton SDA Development Scheme (November 2012) ( 778.1 KB)
Within the Bromelton SDA there are:
- several large, privately owned landholdings with existing industrial activities
- other landholdings suitable for development for industrial uses.
Major landholders with development intentions within the Bromelton SDA include:
- Cleanaway
- Soilco
- SCT Logistics.
Further information
Contact the Office of the Coordinator-General on 1800 001 048 or via sdainfo@coordinatorgeneral.qld.gov.au for further information on the Bromelton SDA.