A council spokeswoman said the four properties – 8 and 10 Pickworth Street and 652 and 654 Kessels Road – were required “in order to align the road with the existing section of Player Street”.
“At completion of this project, a section of surplus land remained, which included a portion of the sites at 10 Pickworth Street and 652 Kessels Road,” she said.
“This land is council freehold land and can be sold back on the property market.”
The two lot sizes have shrunk, with 10 Pickworth Street down from 576 square metres to 410sqm. Next door, 652 Kessels Road has shrunk from 584sqm to 347sqm.
Valuations for the land were removed in council documents published on Monday.
“Settlements between council and private owners are commercial in confidence,” the council spokeswoman said.
“The sale price of the land will become publicly available once the sale is recorded in the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy valuation sales database following settlement.”
The council will consider the proposal to sell the two lots at Tuesday’s chamber meeting at City Hall, along with several other lots that were surplus to its requirements.
That includes a property purchased for millions of dollars in Upper Mount Gravatt as part of council’s bushland preservation scheme.
The 64 Carrara Street address was bought, along with its two neighbouring lots, for $6.2 million in early 2019 after then-lord mayor Graham Quirk announced the purchase to fend off a plan to build townhouses.
The council planned to purchase 68 Carrara Street and 8 Nurran Street, which had no bushland but two houses and a tennis court, surrounded by other houses on all sides. It argued the site was a key part of a koala corridor through the area.
Eventually the council agreed to buy 64 Carrara Street from the same owner, bringing the expected $5.2 million purchase price for the 6776-square-metre site up an additional $1 million, News Corp reported.
The 64 Carrara Street house, on a 2494-square-metre lot zoned low-density residential, will also be considered for sale by council on Tuesday.
Opposition leader Jared Cassidy said funds from the sales should immediately be used to buy more bushland “as a matter of priority”.
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