Latest Updates

May 2018

Herston Road will be closed in both directions from Bramston Terrace to the Gilchrist Avenue roundabout on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May from 6am - 6pm. This closure is to allow for the installation of a second tower crane on the specialist public health facility site. Detours will be in place and clearly sign posted. Please see the map here.

The bus stop on Herston Road out the front of the construction site will be relocated this week. The bus stop has been temporarily relocated to Bramston Terrace about 95 metres away. The temporary bus stop will be in place for 12 months.

Changes to pedestrian access along Herston Road are now in place. These temporary changes are to allow for high voltage works to take place along the edge of the site. Pedestrian access is maintained along Herston Road.

We thank everyone for their understanding during these works and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The planned overnight closure of the Herston Road footpath has been temporarily delayed. A further update will provided closer to the rescheduled dates.

Please note that temporary disruption to the footpath on Herston Road will occur intermittently as site works continue. Please follow the direction of signage and traffic control operators at all times.

April 2018

The eighth issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

We have been pleased to hear from and speak to so many of the community over the last month via our online survey and also community engagement presentation about the Northern Car Park. This month’s newsletter provides an overview of current site activity, shares some initial insights from our survey and provides an update on the Northern Car Park.

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Australian Unity, in consultation with Metro North Hospital and Health Service, is finalising its masterplan for the redevelopment of Herston Quarter and would like to invite the community, staff, students and visitors to provide input into the ongoing masterplan design.

Your opinions will give us valuable insight into creating a master plan that reflects your needs, particularly about future services, public space and amenity.

This survey has 24 questions and should take approximately ten minutes to complete. You will also have the opportunity to register your interest to participate in a focus group.

The survey will be available from 19th February – 10th March 2018. All individual survey data collected is anonymous and will be treated confidentially.

Survey now closed.

February 2018

The seventh issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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January 2018

Economic Development Queensland has approved Australian Unity's Development Application for a specialist public health facility to be built on Herston Road, Brisbane.

The specialist public health facility is the first health building to be completed as part of the $1.1 billion redevelopment of Herston Quarter.

The facility will provide specialist rehabilitation, elective surgery and outpatient services and is being developed to offer world-class patient-focused care much needed in Queensland.

It is expected that construction will begin in March 2018 and completed in late 2020.

December 2017

The sixth issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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Watch the first quarterly aerial footage of the site preparation for the new specialist public health facility taken from August 2017 - November 2017.

1 December 2017

Australian Unity’s Herston Quarter Redevelopment, in partnership with Metro North Hospital and Health Service, was formally recognised at last night’s Public Private Partnership awards in Sydney for ‘Best Social Infrastructure Project’ and ‘Best Financial Structure’.

The Herston Quarter Redevelopment a world class health, aged care, medical and research precinct in Brisbane includes the first public health facility in Australia to be built in a real estate investment trust structure using private capital from investors.

30 November 2017

Bulk earthworks for the Specialist Public Health Facility footprint will commence this week on the former Children’s Hospital at the Herston Quarter site. This work is in preparation for the construction of the new facility in the New Year.

For this stage of works, truck movements will be restricted to Herston Road and will be managed by traffic control operators as required.

October 2017

The fifth issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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September 2017

The fourth issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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August 2017

The Queensland Government has released the Herston Quarter Priority Development Area Proposed Development Scheme.

Public notification of the Proposed Development Scheme will be conducted from 7 August to 18 September 2017.

For more information please visit Economic Development Queensland.

July 2017

The third issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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6 July 2017

Truck movements and construction activity will increase on the Herston Quarter site from now as the internal strip out of the former Children’s Hospital commences. This work is in preparation for the demolition of the former Children's Hospital in coming weeks.

For this stage of works, truck movements will be limited to Herston Road and will be managed by traffic control operators as required.

June 2017

The second issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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16 June 2017

There’ll be temporary disruption to traffic on Back Road on the Herston site between 6:30am and 8:30am, Saturday 17 June 2017, to allow for important cabling activity.

Access will be maintained for all emergency vehicles.

No disruption to power or services is anticipated.

30 May 2017

The first issue of Reimagining Herston Quarter is now available.

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25 May 2017

Exploratory works have started around the former Children’s Hospital this week. This work includes some jack hammering and digging to determine the type of rock and foundations on the site and isolate some underground cabling.

This work will generate some noise on site for the next three weeks.

These works are critical to isolate some services prior to demolition works and determine the machinery and approach required for excavation of the site later this year.

16 May 2017

The disconnection of services in the old Children’s Hospital on the Herston Quarter site is now underway as part of the first stage of the Herston Quarter redevelopment.

These works will take place over the coming months and will allow for the diversion of important cabling and future demolition of the building.

Every effort is being made to ensure minimal disruption to services on the site and staff will be made aware of when short term outages to data or telephones are anticipated.

17 March 2017

Safety hoarding is being installed on the Herston Quarter site as part of the first site preparation works to get underway.

As a result of the hoarding, changes to pedestrian and vehicle access are now in place. Click below to see the alternate routes that are now available.

28 February 2017

Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, Curtis Pitt, says the $1.1 billion Herston Quarter project in Brisbane has been approved to proceed, with Australian Unity’s master planned health-related development moving to the contract close stage.

23 February 2017

Queensland is a significant step closer to having a world-leading health precinct at Brisbane’s Herston Quarter after Australian Unity today executed a series of agreements for the development.

18 November 2016

The $1.1 billion Herston Quarter Redevelopment project has today been declared a Priority Development Area (PDA) — fast-tracking investment and job creation on the important inner-city site.

14 August 2016

Health and financial services company Australian Unity has been announced as the preferred tenderer to develop the site of the former children’s hospital at Herston …