What can you build in Banana?

Check any Banana property against the planning layers that control it under the Banana Shire Planning Scheme (2021) — and get the full picture as a planner-grade PDF report in minutes.

Full council scheme coverage — every overlay auto-checked — 13 state-wide checks + 11 Banana Shire Council scheme overlay maps, every one queried automatically .

Banana Shire Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $1,656 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $2,142 — compare every council

Property address

The Banana council area

The outline is the Banana Shire Council area this page covers — if your property sits inside it, every report check on this page applies.

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Banana scheme overlays we check

· Agricultural Land Overlay (OM01)
· Biodiversity Overlay (OM02)
· Bushfire Hazard Overlay (OM03)
· Flood Hazard Overlay (OM04)
· Heritage Overlay (OM05)
· Historic Subdivisions Overlay (OM06)
· Infrastructure Overlay (OM07)
· Water Resources Overlay (OM08)
· Extractive Mining Resources Overlay (OM09)
· TLPI No 1 of 2024 – Workforce Accommodation
· Transport Noise Corridor (Advisory)

Queensland-wide checks (every address)

· Flood study areas
· Vegetation management (regulated vegetation)
· Protected plants / flora survey triggers
· Priority agricultural areas
· Strategic environmental areas
· Priority living areas
· Coastal management districts
· Coastal hazard areas
· Wetlands
· Acid sulfate soils
· Water resource plan areas
· State-controlled roads

Development application alerts, free

Watch Banana for development applications

Get a brief whenever a development application — a DA, the plans lodged with council before building starts — is lodged or decided near you, with the zone and planning constraints for the site. Rolling out council by council.

Reports are automated information summaries drawn from Queensland Government and Banana Shire Council spatial services. They are not planning advice; data coverage is disclosed on every report.