With polling day tomorrow, let’s recap our scorecard.

And that is: it was a bust.

The candidates for Lord Mayor didn’t want to be drawn on planning outside of what they’ve already announced.

Brisbane City Council mayoral election: urbanist scorecard | Greater Brisbane

On February 2nd, we reached out to Adrian Schrinner (incumbent Lord Mayor, LNP), Tracey Price (Labor) and Jonathan Sriranganathan (Greens) with an invitation to respond to our survey on what their plans are for housing, planning and transport reform.

Disappointing result - but shows how important campaigning for more homes is.

We’ll be doing another one of these in the lead-up to October’s state election and you better believe we’ll be fighting tooth and nail for these changes to go into this year’s City Plan rewrite.

But luckily Matt Dennien and Tony Moore at Brisbane Times did a write up of the major parties’ housing announcements to save us the hassle!

Brisbane election: 90k homes are needed by 2031. How would the new council do it?

With a deadline three years after the next election, much of the heavy lifting will need to be done by the next class in City Hall – whatever its shape.