Parents at Brisbane State High School have urged the state government to scrap plans to build residential towers on a prime parcel of inner-city land, calling instead for the former factory site in their catchment to be turned into playing fields.

The government-owned land on the former Visy site – at one stage slated to become a broadcasting hub during the Olympics – went to tender for residential development in mid-October .

But State High P&C president Chris Dutkowski said so many new homes being built in the catchment would strain enrolments at the partially selective school.

Brisbane State High School is predicted to surpass 3800 students by 2029. Credit: Brisbane Times/Dan Peled

“With recent rezoning and major development plans in West End, and no corresponding plan from Ed

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