Inside highway town Plainland’s housing boom after Woolworths set up shop
Plainland's population has almost doubled from 2,445 in 2006 to an estimated 4,441 this year.
Amanda Pugh says the council is lobbying for a hospital to be built at Plainland.(Supplied: Amanda Pugh) Lockyer Valley Regional Council's group manager of community and regional prosperity, Amanda Pugh, said the town's population growth rate of 4.32 per cent, or 184 new residents a year, was the highest it had been.
And there are a few reasons for that.
Mr Gorman said a "critical mass" of development started to emerge in Plainland Crossing three or four years after lots went on sale.