Click on the above map for a larger view.
Take a few seconds and familiarize yourself with the map. You should be able to locate the two lakes in the centre of Canavan Gracie Recreational Reserve, that most of Bells Reach and Arbour look blank and empty in the map, and find where Bellvista Blvd meets Caloundra Rd (the top end of the turquoise colored road).
The turquoise colored road is Bellvista Blvd. In the map it goes all the way south through Arbor and to where the bridge is currently under construction crossing the Lamerough Creek.
The red colored road is the Bells Creek Arterial, Stage 1 currently under construction and expected to be completed late 2016.
The orange colored road will be the interim connection road between the end of Bellvista Blvd and Bells Creek Arterial Stage 1 until the larger Bells Creek Arterial Stage 2 (the green section) is completed.
No new homes in Aura (Caloundra South) can be occupied until the red and orange sections have been completed and connected to the southern end of the turquoise colored Bellvista Blvd.
BeCA is currently lobbying for a connecting road from where the orange and turquoise roads meet, across to Pelican Waters Blvd. This road is in state government plans but it is not expected to be built for another 12 years or so. BeCA believes bringing forward the construction of this road would provide some relief to traffic congestion along Bellvista Blvd and Caloundra Rd.
The yellow spot DC just near the orange oval sign “Internal Connection Road” indicates where a shopping centre (or District Centre) approximately the size of the current Currimundi Shopping Centre will be built.
The green spot marked NS (and near the DC spot) are the sites for two new state schools, one is expected to be primary, the other secondary. 2018 is mooted as a possible opening date for a P-6 school.
The map below is a larger map of the whole Caloundra South Project. The original, if you wish to download it, is around 6MB and is a HD A3 publication.
The 32 million dollars referred to by Mal Brough at a recent “Listening Post Forum” meeting at the Bellvista Meeting Place was Federal funding to bring forward the construction of the purple section of Bells Creek Arterial to ‘ASAP’ rather than wait for Stockland to build it in stages. A possible road completion date would be sometime after 2026. Federal funding would be available as this road would remove some traffic from the Bruce Highway. The Bruce Highway is a Federal Government responsibility.
With BeCA’s proposal of a Pelican Waters/Bellvista Blvd link road and the completion of the Bells Creek Arterial residents would see the completion of a new East/West corridor connection for the fast growing southern end of the Sunshine Coast. A new East/West corridor road would relieve traffic not only along Caloundra Rd, but some sections of the Bruce Highway as well.
Caloundra South Masterplan- BOTTOM LEGEND PORTRAIT A3 20151019 High
I would like to know where exactly the internal connection road will be please???
Margaret, if you drive into Baringa you will come to a set of traffic lights. At this stage the turn to the right at the lights is blocked off as it leads to a work area. This road will be the road which will connect with the under construction Bells Creek Arterial. Therefore early next year when it is all opened you will come to the traffic lights, turn right. Soon you will come to the “Bells Creek Arterial Rd”. Again you will turn right and after around 6 kilometres or so you will emerge at the roundabout on Caloundra Rd. Currently this roundabout only services Caloundra Rd and Kawana Link Rd I hope this clarifies things for you.
When will the road connecting to the Bruce Highway actually be finished?
Earlier Stockland was predicting the road would be finished around 2031 but a final completion date would be dependent on land sales at Caloundra South. Currently land sales are booming so that 2031 completion date is now under reconsideration.
At this stage Stockland will not give a definitive date for publication as a sudden world wide financial crisis or economic downturn would dent house sales numbers and put the completion date back out to 2031. Stockland are understandably reluctant to be held to a “You said it would be finished in 2025 and now it is out again to 2031!” situation.
Building the road in stages as house sales warrant, is a part of a long term agreement Stockland has negotiated with the State Government.
Some pundits are predicting that as (and if) sales continue to boom, future residents would be reluctant to buy in Caloundra South. If they worked in Brisbane they would need to drive north and away from Brisbane back to Caloundra Rd, then drive to the Bruce Hwy and finally double back on the Bruce Hwy to get to Brisbane.
If this situation were to have an effect on house sales as Caloundra South grows, market forces could also encourage Stockland to bring the completion date of the road forward.