What can you build in Redland?

Check any Redland property against the planning layers that control it under the Redland City Plan (Version 14, effective 10 November 2025 (adopted 17 Sep 20…) — 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 + 12 Redland City Council scheme overlay maps, every one queried automatically .

Redland City Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $2,823 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $3,685 — compare every council

Property address

The Redland council area

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

Redland scheme overlays we check

· Airport environs overlay
· Bushfire hazard overlay
· Coastal protection overlay
· Environmental significance overlay
· Extractive resources overlay
· Flood and storm tide hazard overlay
· Heritage overlay
· Landslide hazard overlay
· Regional infrastructure corridors and substations overlay
· Transport noise corridor overlay
· Water resource catchments overlay
· Waterway corridors and 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 Redland City Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Cleveland 35 Redland Bay 23 Birkdale 21 Capalaba 17 Wellington Point 14 Alexandra Hills 13 Thornlands 12 Victoria Point 11 Ormiston 8 Russell Island 6 Thorneside 6 Macleay Island 5

Has Redland flooded? Flood history by suburb

Development application alerts, free

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