Laidley in sights for post-flood land swap

Topics: flooding, laidley, land swap, lockyer valley regional council

A LAND swap at Laidley is one of the next flood mitigation programs the Lockyer Valley council is seeking funding for.

With the Grantham land swap full, and declared a massive success, the council is looking to move more flood-vulnerable people out of the danger zone.

Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones said the land swap at Grantham had been so successful, not everyone who wanted to swap their properties was able to.

"A lot of the people left on the list are from Laidley from the 2013 flood," he said.

"With a lot of them being from Laidley, it makes sense to find an area there to do another land swap."

Cr Jones said unlike the Grantham swap, which saw about 100 blocks moved onto higher ground, a swap at Laidley would only affect about 12 blocks.

"We've looked at the land we own and the land the government owns," he said.

"We'd obviously prefer to do it on land we own, but it needs to be in one area."

The planned swap isn't the only flood project the council is still working on. It is also applying for funding to clear out the creeks around Forest Hill.

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