The Queensland and Australian Governments developed the Resilient Homes Fund to help Queenslanders across 39 local government areas whose homes were impacted by the 2021-2022 floods. Under the Resilient Homes Fund, funding was available through the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) to assist eligible flood impacted homeowners to retrofit (enhancing resilience) or raise flood affected homes. The program also offered the option of voluntary home buy-back.

The Voluntary Home Buy-Back (VHBB) program, jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland governments under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements, was designed to help homeowners who were most severely impacted and at the greatest risk of future flooding. Under the VHBB program over 204 homes have been purchased across 16 suburbs in Ipswich as of September 2024. The total land area is more than 500,000 square meters of land. This land will be re-zoned as non-occupied green space and cannot have any structures or infrastructure placed on it in the future that could affect the flood resilience of the site.

Council is now seeking community feedback to understand potential future use options of the land acquired under the VHBB program.

Please click on the suburb areas listed below for more information and to provide your feedback for that area. You are welcome to provide feedback on multiple areas.

If you are having any issues completing the survey online, please feel free to reach out to us by using the contact details listed on the bottom right-hand side of this page.

Prefer to provide feedback in person? Council will be holding a number of pop ups across the community where you can speak to one of our team. Please see all pop up details listed further below.

*Please note, 40 of the 44 properties listed under the Brassall/Karrabin area are a unit complex which is yet to be purchased in its entirety and rehabilitated therefore no feedback is being sought at this time on those properties.