What can you build in Gladstone?

Check any Gladstone property against the planning layers that control it under the Gladstone Regional Council Planning Scheme Version 2.1 (Our Place Our Plan) (Version 2.1 (administrative amendment), effective 9 March…) — 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 + 19 Gladstone Regional Council scheme overlay maps, every one queried automatically .

Gladstone Regional Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $1,084 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $3,929 — compare every council

Property address

The Gladstone council area

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

Gladstone scheme overlays we check

· Acid Sulfate Soils
· Agricultural Land Classification
· Airport
· Biodiversity
· Building Heights and Frontages
· Bushfire Hazard
· Coastal Hazard
· Extractive Resources And Minerals
· Flood Hazard
· Heritage
· Historic Mine Sites
· Mining Leases
· Regional Infrastructure
· Road Hierarchy
· Scenic Amenities
· Steep Land
· Transport Noise Corridor
· Water Bore Locations
· Water Resource Catchment

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 Gladstone Regional Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Clinton 21 Agnes Water 18 Boyne Island 15 Tannum Sands 13 Gladstone Central 9 Calliope 8 New Auckland 8 West Gladstone 6 Burua 5 Glen Eden 4 Telina 4 Kirkwood 3 South Gladstone 3

Has Gladstone flooded? Flood history by suburb

Development application alerts, free

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