Redland City Council will progress two proposed major amendments to City Plan, encompassing both residential and non-residential matters.
Acting Mayor Julie Talty said the amendments covered a range of planning items, including zone changes and policy updates.
“City Plan provides the framework for managing development across the city to guide growth and change in a coordinated manner,” Cr Talty said.
“Council undertakes an ongoing program of feedback and review to ensure City Plan remains consistent with community needs, Queensland Government legislation and other factors, such as population growth.
“These latest amendments address both identified issues and opportunities to improve planning outcomes within the city.
“They also reflect current Council policy, aligning with the strategic direction outlined in Council’s Corporate Plan and supporting some of the implementation actions within the Redland Housing Strategy 2024–2046.”
Residential amendments include provisions relating to secondary dwellings, dual occupancies, residential built form, and residential zone changes.
This includes:
- Strengthening assessment benchmarks for home-based businesses to better manage the impacts of industrial type businesses
- Consistency regarding minimum frontage width provisions
- Changes to assessment provisions within the low-density residential zone, including across canal and lakeside estates
- Addressing amenity impacts associated with secondary dwellings occupied by unrelated or separate households
- Support, including new assessment benchmarks, for small-scale rooming accommodation in low, low-medium, and medium density zones.
Non-residential amendments encompass zone changes, centre planning, land use provisions affecting mixed-use areas, lot reconfiguration, and environmental outcomes.
This includes:
- Allowing property owners within rural and environmental management zones to establish self-contained recreational vehicle sites, subject to criteria
- A change to the level of assessment of craft breweries from impact to code assessable development within certain zones, subject to criteria
- Assessment benchmarks to facilitate the delivery of end-of-trip facilities to meet user needs and encourage cycling
- Changes to provisions relating to the creation of rear lots
- Increasing the level of assessment for reconfiguring a lot in the recreation and open space zone to impact assessable, with exemptions.
Council’s Planning and Regulation portfolio representative Cr Rowanne McKenzie said the proposed amendments had been fine-tuned following community engagement in March 2026.
“Council received 47 properly made submissions across both major amendments, and several changes were made in response to feedback received through those submissions,” Cr Mckenzie said.
“Implementing these changes will ensure City Plan remains relevant to the needs of our community now and into the future.
“Council will submit the proposed amendments to the Queensland Planning Minister, seeking approval for their adoption.”
Information about the major amendments, including access to the public consultation reports, is available on Council’s Your Say webpage.
