What can you build in Brisbane?

Check any Brisbane property against the planning layers that control it under the Brisbane City Plan 2014 (Version 37.00/2026, effective 18 September 2026 (Minor an…) — and get the full picture as a planner-grade PDF report in minutes.

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The Brisbane council area

The outline is the area this page covers; the markers are development applications lodged or decided with Brisbane City Council in the last 14 days.

Larger marker = impact assessable · ✓ = decided. Tap a marker for the application. Boundary © State of Queensland (CC BY 4.0).

Brisbane scheme overlays we check

· Active Frontages in Residential Zones Overlay
· Airport Environs Overlay
· Bicycle Network Overlay
· Biodiversity Areas Overlay
· Bushfire Overlay
· Coastal Hazard Overlay
· Commercial Character Building Overlay
· Community Purposes Network Overlay
· Critical Infrastructure and Movement Network Overlay
· Dwelling House Character Overlay
· Extractive Resources Overlay
· Flood Overlay
· Heritage Overlay
· Industrial Amenity Overlay
· Key Civic Space and Iconic Vista Overlay
· Landslide Overlay
· Potential and Actual Acid Sulfate Soils Overlay
· Pre-1911 Building Overlay
· Regional Infrastructure Corridors and Substations Overlay
· Road Hierarchy Overlay
· Significant Landscape Tree Overlay
· Streetscape Hierarchy Overlay
· Traditional Building Character Overlay
· Transport Air Quality Corridor Overlay
· Transport Noise Corridor Overlay
· Water Resource Catchments Overlay
· Waterway Corridors Overlay
· Wetlands Overlay

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 activity by suburb

What's been applied for on the Brisbane City Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Rochedale 72 Bulimba 43 Paddington 43 New Farm 40 Wynnum 39 Doolandella 36 Ashgrove 35 South Brisbane 35 Brisbane City 34 Morningside 33 Camp Hill 31 Coorparoo 31 Fortitude Valley 31 Bridgeman Downs 30 Hamilton 30 Toowong 29 West End 29 Annerley 28 Kedron 28 Newstead 28 Pallara 28 Bardon 26 Clayfield 26 Everton Park 25 Greenslopes 24 Kangaroo Point 24 Kenmore 24 Upper Mount Gravatt 24 Salisbury 23 Eight Mile Plains 21 Indooroopilly 21 Nundah 21 Teneriffe 21 Windsor 21 Woolloongabba 20 Wynnum West 20 Acacia Ridge 19 Ascot 19 Darra 19 Forest Lake 19 Carina 18 The Gap 18 Balmoral 17 Chermside 17 Hendra 17 Rocklea 17 Taigum 17 Taringa 17 Zillmere 17 Albion 16 Bracken Ridge 16 Hemmant 16 Mitchelton 16 Norman Park 16 Oxley 16 Richlands 16 Auchenflower 15 Bald Hills 15 Boondall 15 Coopers Plains 15 East Brisbane 15 Highgate Hill 15 Stafford 15 Sunnybank Hills 15 Wavell Heights 15 Gordon Park 14 Hawthorne 14 Moorooka 14 Northgate 14 Algester 13 Brighton 13 Lucia 13 Tarragindi 13 Tingalpa 13 Yeronga 13 Holland Park 12 Mcdowall 12 Mount Gravatt East 12 Spring Hill 12 Willawong 12 Wooloowin 12 Alderley 11 Aspley 11 Geebung 11 Manly 11 Milton 11 Murarrie 11 Red Hill 11 Sandgate 11 Carina Heights 10 Corinda 10 Fig Tree Pocket 10 Sunnybank 10 Yeerongpilly 10 Enoggera 9 Grange 9 Holland Park West 9 Inala 9 Newmarket 9 Pinkenba 9 Sherwood 9 Stafford Heights 9 Wilston 9 Banyo 8 Carseldine 8 Dutton Park 8 Herston 8 Lutwyche 8 Manly West 8 Runcorn 8 Upper Kedron 8 Wacol 8 Calamvale 7 Cannon Hill 7 Carindale 7 Lota 7 Robertson 7 Virginia 7 Anstead 6 Chelmer 6 Chermside West 6 Keperra 6 Macgregor 6 Mansfield 6 Stretton 6 Bellbowrie 5 Chapel Hill 5 Deagon 5 Durack 5 Gaythorne 5 Gumdale 5 Heathwood 5 Kalinga 5 Brookfield 4 Chandler 4 Fairfield 4 Moggill 4 Mount Gravatt 4 Nudgee 4 Pullenvale 4 Seven Hills 4 Upper Brookfield 4 Jindalee 3 Lytton 3 Parkinson 3 Shorncliffe 3 Sinnamon Park 3

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