A housing development in which homes are built along the edge of a canal.
building these canal estates has led to limited public access to the foreshore
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We can have canal estates built on top of fringing reefs, as we've seen just recently approved by the Marine Park Authority at Nelly Bay.
The company wants to build 420 residential lots, including 250 lots on a canal estate.
It's not only residents speaking out against the proposed canal estate.
Another challenging shot was from the bow of a boat through the waterways of canal estates.
He's not opposed to canal estates, if they're built on degraded agricultural land.
The canal estates that we've seen in Queensland often lead to the foreshore areas being alienated by private ownership, and so the public has limited or no access to the foreshores.
Proposals for new canal estates are now assessed on a regional basis, rather than on local or neighbourhood constraints.
Names of the canal estates and beachside suburbs drew on the American and Mediterranean names associated with water.
Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland spokesman Simon Baltais said he would be concerned if any more canal estates were approved in Moreton Bay.
The spokesperson blames Tasmania's coastal policy for not stopping canal estates in conservation areas.