Stanwell - Gladstone infrastructure corridor

Rockhampton and Gladstone are among Queensland’s fastest growing areas, and this growth is increasing demand for essential services such as water and gas and placing pressure on the infrastructure required to provide these services. There is also industry demand to transport materials such as mineral slurry through the area. Industry is an important economic driver for the region.

The Coordinator-General recognised the need to create a designated infrastructure corridor of land between Stanwell Energy Park and the Gladstone State Development Area to house multiple underground pipelines.

The Stanwell - Gladstone Infrastructure Corridor State Development Area was declared in May 2008. The corridor can accommodate up to seven underground pipelines in a single area, for uses including raw, treated and sea water, gas, and mineral slurries, as well as telecommunication cables. This will help in:

  • delivering essential services throughout the region
  • efficiently transporting industrial materials throughout the area
  • discouraging future private or public infrastructure providers from investigating project-specific pipeline routes outside the designated corridor
  • lessening the disruption of such investigation and construction on individual landowners, surrounding communities and the environment that would otherwise occur if access to multiple pipeline routes was sought on a project-by-project basis.

The route is approximately 90 kilometres long and is generally 100 metres wide. In specific areas where environmental, geographic and construction issues exist, the corridor may be widened for pipe separation and construction purposes.

Maps of the Stanwell – Gladstone Infrastructure Corridor can be viewed or downloaded below:

Development scheme for the Stanwell–Gladstone Infrastructure Corridor State Development Area

A development scheme has been prepared to manage land use in the Stanwell–Gladstone Infrastructure Corridor State Development Area. This scheme, prepared by the Coordinator-General, was approved by the Governor in Council on 14 August 2008.

The development scheme will plan for the establishment of essential services in a coordinated manner, recognising the environment, cultural heritage and the community.

The role of the Coordinator-General is to assess and determine all applications for land use development (material change of use) within the state development area.

Material change of use applications are subject to fees. For more information, read the Guideline for material change of use application fees(PDF, 148 KB).

Development scheme (PDF, 168 KB).