By Jeremy Sollars
Hardware giant Bunnings says filling of the site of its new Warwick outlet at the corner of Canning and Condamine Streets will “commence shortly”.
Passers-by will have notice safety fencing and … have been moved onto the site, with a Bunnings spokeswoman telling the Free Times this week the new store “is expected to open in late 2018”.
“Hutchinson Builders has been appointed as the builder of the new Bunnings Warehouse Warwick and are currently on site with filling works to commence shortly,” the spokeswoman said.
“We will continue to update the Warwick community as the development progresses.”
The Southern Downs Regional Council has previously said new Bunnings outlet will represent “a $16 million investment in the local economy and will create 50 new jobs”.
Last August real estate agent Helen Harm withdrew an appeal she lodged in the Planning and Environment Court of Queensland against the approval by the council of the new Bunnings, which will be on the Condamine River floodplain.
Ms Harm contended that nearly four metres of fill approved to be brought onto the site for construction of the new building will have a detrimental effect on future flooding, but was forced to withdraw her legal action due to costs.
At that time the council’s manager of Economic Development and Tourism, Scott Templeman, said “not only will there be an extra 50 jobs, council’s economic impact model indicates that there will be a further 10 jobs created to help support the direct new jobs at Bunnings”.
“The new Bunnings Warehouse will help to encourage people in the Southern Downs region to shop locally rather than going to Toowoomba or other cities,” Mr Templeman said.
