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Sites for lease or sale

As we continue to improve and develop key sites in our network, we will retire non-network receival sites that have not been operational for some time or are no longer suitable to receive and handle grain. 

Current sites for lease or sale

CBH has completed comprehensive modelling to determine which sites will be retired including future crop estimates and trends, logistic requirements, operational costs and retirement costs among others.

Sites identified for retirement will be offered for lease or sale in the first instance as part of an Expression of Interest (EOI) process, and we encourage growers, community groups and the wider public to express their interest.

Please download a copy of our brochure regarding the process here. 

There are currently no sites available for lease or sale.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I am interested in leasing or buying a site. Will there be a second phase?
    • The 2016 Network Strategy identified approximately 102 non-network sites that had a variety of possible future uses – to be leased or sold, decommissioned, used by CBH operations for alternative uses or to be maintained for use during above-average harvests.
    • In 2019, the CBH Board approved 40 sites (Tranche 1) out of the 102 non-network sites to be permanently retired.
    • There are currently no sites for lease or sale.
    • A second phase of site retirements is one possible scenario out of many; however there are many factors to consider before a decision will be made. 
  • Why is my site being closed?
    • We are now receiving the vast majority (~97%) of our annual harvest in our 100 network sites.
    • Even with record harvest in 2021/22, we only needed to open 30 non-network sites for receivals, which took approximately 600,000 tonnes between them. 
    • The majority of the sites available for lease or sale have not been used for over ten years, with 11 sites not open for grower receivals in the past five years. Only two sites have been opened once in a five-year period, and received only 0.009% of total receivals during that time. 
    • CBH has completed comprehensive modelling to determine which sites will be retired including future crop estimates and trends, logistics requirements, operational costs and retirement costs among others.
    • We believe that this site may be of better use to someone else – growers, community groups, shires, or commercial entities – for another use other than storing grain.
  • How were these sites selected?
    • CBH has completed comprehensive modelling to determine which sites will be retired including future crop estimates and trends, logistics requirements, operational costs and retirement costs among others. 
  • Why are you leasing the sites?
    • By leasing sites, we will enable growers, community groups, shires or local businesses to utilise the infrastructure for an alternative use than storing grain. 
  • Why aren't you demolishing more sites? Isn't leasing or maintaining defunct sites just a waste of the co-op's resources? Wouldn't you be better off knocking them down?
    • CBH recognises the opportunity to provide access to infrastructure to help serve a community’s needs and our preference is to offer safe retired sites either for lease or sale to the community.   

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