MAYOR Karen Williams has hit back at Deputy Premier Steven Miles' threat to force council to get its paperwork up to date on housing, saying there was no urgent need for such a strategy.
Mr Miles told council that it had not started a housing strategy looking at land supply issues despite requests being made as far back as 2018.
He said if the council did not get its house in order, he would force the matter by issuing a ministerial direction.
Cr Williams said Redland had plenty of housing supply and diversity.
"I am bewildered as to why the deputy premier has sent a letter stating he is considering using his ministerial powers to force council's hand," Cr Williams said.
"We are meeting our requirements with evidence of sufficient and increasing housing diversity ... in the state government's own annual Land Supply and Development Monitoring Reports.
"The LSDM consistently notes that Redland city has sufficient planned dwelling supply to achieve the dwelling supply benchmarks of the SEQ Regional Plan (ShapingSEQ)."
Dwelling approvals showed Redland was achieving diversity in its stock.
"While housing strategies are valuable, local governments would usually undertake them in preparation for a review of their planning schemes.
"As this is some four years away ... and the city's 2002/21 housing supply figures exceeds the state's targets, it would be premature and unnecessary for council to allocate resources to undertake this..."
Cr Williams said consultants prepared the Redlands Housing Strategy 2011-2031, which recommended the types of housing needed.
In 2014 council also had consultants assess residential land availability which found that Redland had capacity for dwellings needed for projected growth to 2041.
"While we may have temporarily fallen below the ShapingSEQ benchmark of four years of approved lot supply, our figures from 2020/21 ... will be well above this target at close to five years.
"...It would appear that other local government areas that have fallen below the ShapingSEQ threshold - including Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Noosa and Moreton Bay - have not been requested to prepare a housing supply and diversity strategy."
The council chief executive would write to Mr Miles about the issue and would ask the government to provide a transport and infrastructure plan linked to growth forecasts.
