Data sources & attribution

Landbrief's site reports and development-application alerts are built from open spatial and register data published by the Queensland Government and Queensland local councils. We reproduce and reformat that data — the reports are our derivation of it, and changes have been made.

Landbrief is an independent service. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or acting on behalf of any of the agencies below. Each source agency maintains its own data, gives no warranty as to it, and accepts no liability for how it is used.

The answers on our “Do I need approval?” tool come from each council's own planning scheme — the table of assessment published with it — where we have read it, and from the Queensland Planning Regulation 2017 everywhere else. Every answer says which.

Looking for the laws and plans rather than the data? See the Queensland planning library.

State-published planning schemes

For these councils the Queensland Government itself prepares and publishes the planning scheme as public mapping, so their zone and flood layers are State of Queensland data, credited below: Balonne Shire Council, Barcoo Shire Council, Blackall-Tambo Regional Council, Boulia Shire Council, Bulloo Shire Council, Burke Shire Council, Croydon Shire Council, Diamantina Shire Council, McKinlay Shire Council, Murweh Shire Council, Paroo Shire Council, Quilpie Shire Council, Winton Shire Council.

Queensland Government spatial data (QSpatial and department ArcGIS services)

Used under CC BY 4.0.

Used under the council open data terms — see the council's website.

Planning-scheme zone and overlay mapping (council ArcGIS Server)

Used under the council open data terms — see the council's website.

Used under the council open data terms — see the council's terms.

Used under CC BY 3.0 AU.

Used under the council open data terms — see the council's website.

PD Online property records (zones and planning-scheme overlays)

Used under the council open data terms — see the council's website.

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements / NDRRA activations by local government area

Used under CC BY 4.0.

Digital Earth Australia Water Observations, Landsat multi-year summary

Used under CC BY 4.0.

Reported offences by police division, monthly series

Used under CC BY 3.0 AU.

Census of Population and Housing, 2021 — Community Profiles (Suburbs and Localities)

Used under CC BY 4.0.

Using data from a council area not listed here? We add councils as their data comes online — the source and its licence appear on this page and in the report itself when we do. If you believe an attribution is incomplete or incorrect, email hello@landbrief.com.au.