The Crisafulli government is reviewing State Facilitated Development projects under the LNP’s pledge to restore power to councils.

The former Labor government used the SFD process to fast-track almost a dozen projects, ostensibly to provide more housing in areas where development applications might otherwise have been caught up in council.

But Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has accused Labor of undermining local government by “riding roughshod” over councils, sometimes in cases where there was local opposition to developments.

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has (clockwise from top left) approved a 479-unit development at Indooroopilly, and a 440-unit development at Woolloongabba, but proposed blocking a 73-unit development at Redland Bay and blocked a 42-unit development at Tewantin. Other State Facilitated Development (SFD) projects remain under review.Credit:........

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