The Moreton Border News found it difficult to identify the exact location of the privately owned land at 486-516 Ipswich Rosewood Rd, Jeebropilly – another potential site for the Rosewood tip – this is the view across the paddock from Stone Quarry Road.
The current Rosewood Recycling and Refuse Centre at 94 & 95 Oakleigh Colliery Road, Rosewood has been chosen as one of the possible sites.
The property opposite the current Rosewood tip has been identified by the Ipswich City Council as a site for the potential expansion of the facility.
Again, the Moreton Border News could not be certain of the exact locality of the third shortlisted tip site – Lot 1 & 2, unamed road, Mount Marrow – this view was taken in the general vicinity of the proposed site.
THE Rosewood tip, council land at Mount Marrow and a private property at Jeeropilly are the shortlisted sites for the long mooted Western Resource Recovery Centre.
While Calvert was originally proposed as the locality for the rubbish tip and recycling operation, community protests led to a rethink and more public consultation by the Ipswich City Council.
The consultation period ended 11 months ago.
Last Friday, Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding announced that the three shortlisted sites for the dump were:
• 94 and 95 Oakleigh Colliery Road, Rosewood (currently the Rosewood Recycling and Refuse Centre);
• Lot 1 and 2, unnamed road, Mount Marrow (council owned land); and
• 486-516 Ipswich Rosewood Road, Jeebropilly (privately owned land).
Cr Harding noted that while the existing dump site was crossed off the list in earlier deliberations, circumstances had changed.
“Council has conducted extensive community consultation on the potential site,” she said.
“The community told us they wanted to play a crucial role in how their community is shaped and one of the shortlisted sites was a suggestion advocated by locals.
“They told us they would rather see the existing Rosewood Recycling and Refuse Centre upgraded rather than a new site found if possible.
“Previously we had determined that wasn’t an option as the current site is too small to meet the needs of a state-of-the-art resource recovery centre required to service the area.
“However, since then we have been able to identify a site directly opposite that could be suitable to facilitate its expansion.”
Cr Harding said that 750 sites had been evaluated to hone the list down to just three.
In a release in August last year, Cr Harding said the new Rosewood centre would be deferent from the usual perception of a tip.
“[It will] not be like an old-style smelly tip or open landfill, as the role of resource and recovery centres is to recover, sort, transfer and recycle materials from household waste efficiently and cleanly.
“Resource recovery centres do not operate material processing machinery that generate significant smell and no materials are stored on site long term as they are transported off site as soon as possible.
“Materials not recoverable are transported off site daily for appropriate processing.”
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