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What can you build in Scenic Rim?

Check any Scenic Rim property against the planning layers that control it under the Scenic Rim Planning Scheme 2020 (Current version dated 30 June 2023 (incorporates Amendmen…) — and get the full picture as a planner-grade PDF report in minutes.

State-wide coverage — council scheme overlays not yet automated for this LGA — 13 state-wide checks.

Scenic Rim Regional Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $1,501 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $7,023 — compare every council

The Scenic Rim council area

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

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 Scenic Rim Regional Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Has Scenic Rim flooded? Flood history by suburb

Development application alerts, free

Watch Scenic Rim 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.

Email me — only when something lodges or is decided

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