Every property in Queensland is governed by a council planning scheme. ZoneDSS resolves it for any address — zone, height, overlays, constraints, approval likelihood — and aggregates the picture by suburb and council.
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Top suburbs ranked by sales volume and DA activity over the past 24 months — the ones property buyers, owners, and developers are looking at most often.
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Each council writes its own LEP and DCP. Click through to see every suburb in that council and the planning rules that apply.
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Queensland planning system
Every property in Queensland is governed by three layers of planning controls that must be read together. ZoneDSS resolves the lot.
Queensland's statewide planning framework — it sets how planning schemes are made, how development is assessed, and the categories of assessment that apply.
Authority: Queensland Government (DSDILGP).
Each of Queensland's 78 councils sets zones, levels of assessment, and codes — the primary instrument every development application is assessed against.
Authority: council, as planning authority.
Hazard overlays (flood, bushfire), environmental significance (MSES, koala habitat), strategic cropping land, and infrastructure overlays modify what can be built on a lot.
Authority: State Planning Policy + council overlays.
All three resolved for any address.
Every control that applies to the lot — zone, overlays, and design rules — extracted, scored, and cited to source. No more reading multiple documents in multiple browser tabs.
FAQs
Every property in Queensland is governed by a council planning scheme, which sets the zone, building height, overlays, and permitted uses for each lot. ZoneDSS resolves the Queensland planning-scheme zones for any address and aggregates the picture by suburb and council here.
Every Queensland property has a zone set by its planning scheme. You can check the official Queensland Globe map (https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/), or generate a ZoneDSS planning report for the address — which returns the zone plus the development controls, overlays, and constraints that apply, cited to source.
Across the Queensland councils we hold application-level data for, 5,080 of 5,637 decided applications were approved over the past 24 months — an approval rate of 90%. Rates vary widely by council and application type.
ZoneDSS aggregates data for Queensland from Queensland council planning schemes, Development.i / council DA registers, Queensland Globe, Queensland EMR/CLR contaminated land register, ABS Census 2021. Every figure on every suburb page is computed from authoritative sources and cited.
Suburb and council stats are useful for context. For a buy-or-walk decision on a specific lot, you need every control, every constraint, and every clause cited to source.
Run a report — from A$2914-section report · planning scheme controls cross-referenced · cited to source
Suburb- and LGA-level totals aggregated from Queensland lot-level cadastre and planning data. Sources: Queensland council planning schemes, Development.i / council DA registers, Queensland Globe, Queensland EMR/CLR contaminated land register, ABS Census 2021, and ABS Census 2021. Aggregated by ZoneDSS · last updated 2026-06-08.
These are state and council-level summaries — your specific lot may vary. Always run a planning report on the actual address before making a decision. How ZoneDSS works →