Caboolture, 4510, is the southern edge of where this crew pours: twenty five to thirty minutes down the Bruce Highway from the coast’s southern end, and worth the drive because the town has more driveway work per street than almost anywhere north of it. One of the district’s oldest towns means every era of concrete is out there ageing at once, from strip driveways beside original highset homes to last decade’s estate slabs on the fringes.
A town of three driveway types
Close to the town centre the blocks are generous and the homes older, and the work is classic renewal: cracked and sunken driveways broken out whole and repoured at full width. On the acreage and rural residential belts along the river the driveways turn into runs, long pours down to sheds and machinery, quoted with staging options and thicker sections where floats and trucks will track. And on the newer estate edges the work looks like the coast’s estate work: first driveways against builder handovers, poured once the heavy vehicles are done.
River country ground
Caboolture’s flats carry river influenced clays and loams that hold moisture and move between seasons, which is base and joint territory: soft spots out, compacted base in, mesh on chairs, and control joints cut on a drawn layout so seasonal movement happens where it is planned to. The build standard is written for exactly this ground.
Different council, same discipline
The City of Moreton Bay runs its own crossover system, self assessed against zone based planning scheme requirements, and on this side of the boundary the zone matters: a general residential lot in town and a rural residential block west of it answer different rules. Which path your crossover takes is stated in writing with the quote.
Caboolture rates
The published rates travel down the highway unchanged: new pours from $100 per m2, replacements $135 to $195 including removal, extensions and pads $110 to $160. Long acreage runs are what the calculator is built for; put the real metres in and the written price after a site measure does not move.
City of Moreton Bay crossover rules in Caboolture
The City of Moreton Bay, which covers Caboolture and Morayfield, hands the crossover to the property owner more completely than either coast council: the owner is responsible for building, maintaining, altering and repairing the crossover, including where it crosses the kerb, a footpath or a drain. What the council controls is the design, through its planning scheme.
The test is zone based rather than one checklist for everyone. The planning scheme sets requirements for accepted development for each zone, general residential lots against one set, rural and rural residential against another, and a crossover that meets the requirements for its zone is self assessable: council permission to work in the road reserve comes with standard conditions, and kerb and channel work is part of the owner’s job where the scheme requires it. A crossover that falls outside the requirements needs a concurrence agency referral lodged with the council, with a fee the council sets, and construction must not start until the written approval is back.
Which zone a block sits in, and therefore which requirements apply, is checked before quoting, and the path your crossover takes is stated in writing with the quote. Council requirements and fees are the council’s own and can change.
Driveways nearby
Morayfield, Beerwah, Landsborough. All 20 suburbs: where we pour.