Minnippi Golf & Range is now open
Tee-rific news! Minnippi Golf & Range is now open to the public.
Minnippi Golf & Range (formally known as Cannon Hill Community Links) is Brisbane’s first new public golf course in over 70 years. Across its 125-hectare site, it has an 18-hole golf course, 20-bay driving range, cafe and more!
This project was due to be completed in 2020; however was delayed by COVID-19 and had further delays due to the February 2022 flood. It has been in the making for over 20 years, since the late 1990s, and it is very exciting that tee-off day finally arrived.
The site formally known as the Cannon Hill Tip, stopped accepting waste in 1977.
In 1998 BMD was awarded the tender by Brisbane City Council to turn the old tip site into a golf course and residential precinct.
After years of planning, the Cannon Hill Community Links project was finally announced to the public in 2014.
As part of the project, the site needed remediating prior to construction of the residential precinct and golf course. Remediation works on the site began in early 2015. These works included re-doing the capping as the previous capping did not stop rainwater from seeping through the waste and making its way into Bulimba Creek. Water that had passed through the waste was called leachate. Part of the remediation had involved the installation of a leachate drainage system under the landfill. By October 2015, they had collected, treated, and discharged over 5,000,000 litres of leachate from the site into the sewer system.
In September 2016, another milestone was reached with the commencement of construction activities for the residential subdivision. Council's contractors built a new intersection between Constant Street and Foxmont Drive, Carina.
Remediation of the weed-degraded bushland continued, with 30 hectares of squirrel glider habitat set to be improved between then and the end of construction.
in 2017, the new road, Minnippi Boulevard, and new bikeways, parks, and public spaces were completed. Weed coverage in the Cannon Hill Bushland had been dramatically reduced, and hundreds of glider food trees had been planted.
Works commenced shortly after on the front nine holes of the public golf course. Followed by the back nine holes and final planting out of remaining vegetation areas.
Features of this state-of-the-art golf course are:
30 hectares of long-term squirrel glider rehabilitation zone
Approximately 75,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted as a part of the project’s regeneration and revegetation plan and the instillation of nest boxes and fauna poles have also been completed
The golf course can be played as 18 holes, two nine-hole loops or three six-hole loops
The golf course has been shaped to shed water to the sides where it is collected in swales by a fully proactive and automated recycling/drainage system. Excess water then moves into a major subsurface drain system which collects the water and is then physically pumped out of the interconnected system into the irrigation lake to be once again recycled.
Due to the floodplain it has no sand bunkers on the golf course, a first for Australia. Treated timber has been used in place of traditional sand bunkers to keep maintenance low and support mediation following a potential flooding event
Named Minnippi Golf Course after the local Jagera elder Tommy Minnippi, the “king of the Tingalpa tribe”.
Minnippi Golf & Range will be so much more than just a golf course in the future, with activities like laser tag, barefoot putting, night golf proposed by the operator.