Cr Quirk was asked why the Eat Street-style market, which he used to sell the original plan, had disappeared from the plan at a media conference on Thursday. “That’s just not accurate,” he said. “This plan was always about making sure we can create a massive parkland opportunity in the city. This was sold on the basis of a 20-kilometre corridor of Oxley Creek where we could open it up to wonderful parklands.” Loading But a media statement issued by Cr Quirk's office in December 2016, Cr Quirk himself was quoted as saying: “this project will create a major recreational space with improved lifestyle and leisure opportunities – including opportunities for kayaking trails, large green open space, Brisbane’s first public aviary and a new ‘Eat Street’ style market.”

Opposition councillor Steve Griffiths said Labor welcomed the plan, with caution. "The devil will be in the detail we believe," he said. "There needs to be extensive consultation with locals and community groups to ensure we get the best use of this money and the environment." Cr Griffiths welcomed the removal of an enclosed aviary fro the plan and said an said an Eat Street-style market would be implemented nearby at Rocklea. "There is a lot of detail that hasn't been fleshed out yet and there are a lot of questions that would still need to be answered," he said.

It has also been revealed the council only owns about 30 per cent of the 100 hectares of land within the creek corridor. About 50 per cent of land is privately owned and the remainder of land not in council ownership is owned by the state government. Design image for the $100 million Oxley Creek transformation Credit:Brisbane City Council Cr Quirk was unable to answer questions about how much of the $100 million budget of the project would be spent acquiring privately-owned land. “We don’t know that at this stage. We’re not at that point. We’ve said $5 million a year towards the project, but we won’t know those numbers until we get a settled plan," he said.

Cr Quirk has also already ruled out a CityCat stop within the corridor, which was listed in the draft master plan as a possibility. The plan said it would ‘investigate new and upgraded community facilities to create a community hub, such as bike, canoe and kayak hire facilities and launch ramps, cafes, event facilities, tour boat mooring and a CityCat terminal’. When asked where the CityCat terminal could be Cr Quirk said it was nothing to get excited about. “I wouldn’t be at this stage getting over excited about the prospect of a CityCat terminal, to be frank,” he said. “It is there in the plan as a discussion point, but I think there would be in the fullness of time some other information that will come to light which will probably make it difficult to achieve and we have always said that really beyond the University of Queensland it’s very difficult because of the topography of the river because of the issues of erosion,” he said.