ClareHaven will provide independent and semi-independent housing for people with a range of disabilities whose carers are no longer able to continue their care.

The concept has been developed by the community at St Anthony's church in Alexandra Hills, with the apartments to be built on land adjoining the primary school owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

About 30 members of the St Anthony's parish attended the council's development assessment committee to support their application, with parish priest Father Peter McCarthy and three carer families speaking in the public forum.

"We asked ourselves, how do we use our resources to address the needs of parents with kids with disabilities? How do we be responsible stewards of our community? That is how the dream of ClareHaven was conceived by our parents," Fr McCarthy said.

Sean Hennessy, who has Down Syndrome and works at Alexandra Hills Hungry Jacks, read a speech his mother, Amelia, said he wrote himself.

"Please let ClareHaven be built because I need my own place and I don't want to depend on my mum and dad for the rest of my life," Sean appealed to the councillors.

While traffic concerns, proximity of the buildings to neighbours and 96 submissions from neighbours and parents of the school were discussed by councillors, the overwhelming need for aged and special care facilities in the Redlands led to a unanimous vote for the development to go ahead.

Councillor Karen Williams declared a non-pecuniary conflict of interest as a parishioner of St Anthony's, but congratulated the community on their submission and thanked developer Bartley Burns, project manager Greg Fox from Fox and Bell and consulting engineer Glynn Tucker for their pro bono consulting work with the group.

The applicants will now work to resolve further details of the design before construction can begin.