Room for a lot more homes
About 5 km south-east of the Ipswich CBD, the Ripley Valley Priority Development Area covers 4,680 hectares. Ipswich City Council says it could potentially hold 48,750 dwellings for about 131,000 people (Ipswich City Council, Ripley Valley Priority Development Area).
For scale, the whole of Ipswich had 229,208 residents at the 2021 Census (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census QuickStats for Ipswich).
What growth tends to mean for an electrician
What follows is reasoning, not a record of P4's jobs. A newer house is less likely to need its wiring replaced. The work it asks for is usually additions: a charger in the garage, more power points, lights outside, a new oven where the old one sat.
If that reasoning holds, these are the P4 services most likely to matter in a growing area:
- EV chargers. These must be installed by a licensed electrician. Tenants need approval from the owner or property manager before one goes into a rental (Residential Tenancies Authority).
- Lighting and power upgrades, for the rooms and outdoor areas that ended up with fewer points than you wanted.
- Appliance replacement, including the hardwired connection for ovens and cooktops.
For an EV charger quote, send a photo of your switchboard and tell us where you park. That covers most of what we need to know first.
Close to four in ten homes rented
In 2021, 88.7 percent of Ipswich dwellings were separate houses and 39.4 percent were rented (same ABS source). That puts a large share of Ipswich homes in the hands of landlords and property managers.
A newer house doesn't settle the smoke alarm question on its own. Rental homes have needed interconnected photoelectric alarms since 1 January 2022, alarms must be less than 10 years old, and every Queensland home must have interconnected photoelectric alarms by 1 January 2027 (Queensland Government). See smoke alarms and real estate and rentals.
Outside P4's area
P4 works in Ipswich, Logan and the southside of Brisbane, and nowhere else. Air-conditioning installation isn't offered.
