Numbers 25 and 27 Chapman Place are two elevated residential blocks in a recent land subdivision in Oxley, Brisbane. If you're looking for them on Google maps they're indicated by 'Lot 1' rather than 'Lot 25' as tagged by Google.
Oxley is a surprising place to live. (I should know, I live at 29 Chapman Place.) Seventeen Mile Rocks Park on the Brisbane River is a new park on the old Queensland Cement loading site. Longtime residents of Brisbane might remember the barges navigating their way up and down the river from Moreton Bay. This is the place where they offloaded, and it has now been converted into a vast landscaped area of riverside public parkland including a popular children's water play area, community vegetable garden and picnic zones. The design of the park has preserved quite a few features from the concrete plant which now serve as an interesting reminder of its recent industrial history.
Oxley has great transport links with the main train line running through it, and easy access to the Ipswich Motorway, and the Centenary (Western) Freeway, which links to the Logan Motorway. The new tunnel at the Toowong end of the Centenary Freeway will ensure easy and fast access to the airport should you choose to drive and not use the train.
Whist some low-lying parts of Oxley were affected in the devastating Brisbane floods in 2011, Chapman Place is on the southern side of Oxley hill, and was well high of any of that dreadful water.
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