The South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 is the Queensland Government’s plan to manage growth and protect the region’s lifestyle and environment. The plan responds to issues such as continued high population growth, traffic congestion, koala protection, climate change and employment generation. The plan balances population growth with the need to protect the lifestyle residents of South East Queensland value and enjoy.

Interactive maps

The regional plan allocates all land into one of three regional land use categories: Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area; Urban Footprint or Rural Living Area. These categories provide the spatial context for the preferred settlement pattern and operation of the regulatory provisions.

This interactive mapping tool allows you to search for a property in SEQ either by address, lot and plan number, suburb or locality. The tool shows which of the three regional land use categories applies to the property.

You can view the South East Queensland Regional Plan regulatory maps on this website.

Background

In 2003, following a decade of voluntary regional planning initiatives in South East Queensland (SEQ), state and local governments recognised more needed to be done to manage the impacts of the region's rapid population growth.

In 2004 the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (IPA) was amended to provide a statutory, or legal, basis for regional planning. This led to the creation of the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-26, which provided the framework for managing growth, land use and development in the region.

During 2008-09 the Queensland Government undertook a review of the SEQ Regional Plan 2005-26 to respond to important growth management issues that have emerged since its release. These issues include continued high population growth, housing affordability pressures, transport congestion, koala protection and climate change.

The SEQ Regional Plan 2009-2031 remains in effect under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. The plan will be updated to reflect the requirements of the new Act.