PropertyFlags · news · 28 August 2026Queensland coverage grows by a third
Sunshine Coast, Logan and Rockhampton are live today. If you are buying or renting in any of them, you can now check an address against your own council’s planning scheme in about a minute, and get the zone, the flood mapping and the hazard overlays in plain English instead of hunting through a PDF map.
Now covering 3.3 million Queenslanders
PropertyFlags now reads the planning schemes of six Queensland councils: Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Moreton Bay, the Sunshine Coast, Logan and Rockhampton. Together they are home to 3,327,585 residents, up from 2,499,353 before today.
Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated resident population at 30 June 2023, the most recent published by local government area. The real numbers today are higher. We would rather quote a figure you can check than a rounder one you cannot.
What you get in each new council
Sunshine Coast Council
Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014 · CC BY 3.0 AU
Zoning, flooding and inundation, bushfire hazard, landslide, steep land, maximum building height, local heritage, character areas, acid sulfate soils, coastal protection, road and rail corridors.
Logan City Council
Logan Planning Scheme 2015 (v9.2) · CC BY 3.0 AU
Zoning with precinct and local plan, flood assessment area with a graded risk category, high flow conveyance, bushfire, landslide slope bands, heritage, transport noise for road and rail, acid sulfate soils, erosion prone land, powerline corridors.
Rockhampton Regional Council
Rockhampton Regional Planning Scheme 2015 · CC BY 4.0
Zoning with precinct, Fitzroy River flood hazard graded H1 to H6, the North Rockhampton levee area, local catchment flooding, storm surge, bushfire class, steep land, character demolition control, road and rail noise, airport noise contours, heritage.
All of that sits alongside the checks we already run everywhere in Queensland: contaminated land, mining and resource tenure, state heritage, acid sulfate trigger areas, fire ant biosecurity zones, crash history, school catchments, internet and mobile coverage.
Read live, named, and never guessed
Every layer is queried from the council’s own service at the moment you run the report, so what you see is the scheme as it stands today, not a copy we took months ago. Each finding names the register it came from, with its licence, so you can take it to your conveyancer or the council and check it yourself.
A council only goes live once we can read both its zoning and its flood mapping under a licence that allows it, and only after we have run real addresses through it end to end. For these three that meant Bli Bli, Maroochydore and Nambour; Springwood, Beenleigh and Logan Central; Rockhampton City and Gracemere. If a source ever fails to answer, the report says so rather than showing a reassuring green.
More to come
We are working through the rest of Queensland council by council, and each one is added the day its planning scheme data becomes usable. If you work for a council and your scheme data is open, or could be, we would like to hear from you: hello@propertyflags.com.au. Every council that opens its data makes it easier for the people buying there to understand what they are buying.
Sources
All sources queried or checked on 28 August 2026. If a figure on this page and a source disagree, tell us at hello@propertyflags.com.au and we will correct the page.
Check one specific address
Buying on the Sunshine Coast, in Logan or in Rockhampton? PropertyFlags checks one address at a time against every official government register we can query for its state, and answers with red, yellow and green flags in about a minute.
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