What can you build in Whitsunday?

Check any Whitsunday property against the planning layers that control it under the Whitsunday Regional Council Planning Scheme 2017 (Version 5.0, effective 30 March 2026) — 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.

Property address

The Whitsunday council area

The outline is the Whitsunday Regional Council area this page covers — if your property sits inside it, every report check on this page applies.

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 application alerts, free

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