What can you build in Toowoomba?

Check any Toowoomba property against the planning layers that control it under the Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme 2012 (Version 29, effective 21 July 2026) — 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 + 13 Toowoomba Regional Council scheme overlay maps, every one queried automatically .

Toowoomba Regional Council application fees (2026/2027): new house $1,995 · 1 → 2 lot subdivision $6,270 — compare every council

Property address

The Toowoomba council area

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

Toowoomba scheme overlays we check

· Airport environs overlay
· Agricultural land overlay
· Bushfire hazard overlay
· Environmental significance overlay
· Extractive resources overlay
· Flood hazard overlay
· Heritage overlay
· Landslide hazard overlay
· Neighbourhood character overlay
· Regional infrastructure corridors and substations overlay
· Scenic amenity overlay
· Transport noise corridor overlay
· Water resource catchment 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 Toowoomba Regional Council register, suburb by suburb — updated daily.

Newtown 26 Wellcamp 23 Glenvale 22 Highfields 19 Torrington 16 Crows Nest 15 Rangeville 15 East Toowoomba 11 Harlaxton 11 Harristown 11 Middle Ridge 11 Pittsworth 11 Charlton 10 South Toowoomba 10 Westbrook 10 Cotswold Hills 9 Gowrie Junction 9 Drayton 8 Clifton 7 Mount Kynoch 7 Cabarlah 6 Kearneys Spring 6 North Toowoomba 6 Toowoomba City 6 Millmerran 5 Mount Lofty 5 Mount Rascal 5 Woolmer 5 Goombungee 4 Oakey 4 Rockville 4 Aubigny 3 Centenary Heights 3 Cooyar 3 Kleinton 3 Meringandan West 3 Ravensbourne 3

Has Toowoomba flooded? Flood history by suburb

Development application alerts, free

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