What can you build in Central Highlands?

Check any Central Highlands property against the planning layers that control it under the Central Highlands Regional Council Planning Scheme 2016 (Amendment No. 7 (commenced 7 June 2024)) — 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 Central Highlands Regional Council scheme overlay maps, every one queried automatically .

Central Highlands Regional Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $1,863 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $2,222 — compare every council

Property address

The Central Highlands council area

The outline is the area this page covers; the markers are development applications lodged or decided with Central Highlands Regional 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).

Central Highlands scheme overlays we check

· OM1 Airport Environs
· OM2 Biodiversity Areas, Waterways and Wetlands
· OM3 Bushfire Hazard
· OM4 Extractive and Mineral Resources
· OM5 Flood Hazard
· OM6 Agriculture
· OM7 Heritage
· OM8 Regional Infrastructure
· OM9 Water Resource Catchments
· Road Hierarchy (council road register)
· Flood Studies (council flood models)

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 Central Highlands Regional Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Emerald 232 Blackwater 30 Capella 16 Springsure 5 Mackenzie 4 Rolleston 4 Bluff 3 Comet 3 Duaringa 3 Rubyvale 3

Has Central Highlands flooded? Flood history by suburb

Development application alerts, free

Watch Central Highlands 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 Central Highlands Regional Council spatial services. They are not planning advice; data coverage is disclosed on every report.