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Brisbane City Council · Brisbane City Plan 2014 · Brisbane North Infill

Council
Brisbane City Council
Planning scheme
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Overlays mapped here
Landslide overlay · Flood overlay — overland flow · Flood overlay — creek and waterway · Biodiversity areas overlay · Erosion prone area · Storm tide hazard area
Residential zones mapped
Emerging communities
General residential
Bushfire-prone land
None mapped
Acid sulfate soils
None mapped
Storm tide hazard
high hazard area mapped

Planning data from Queensland Government open spatial data + individual councils (CC BY 4.0), read 2026-09-14. Suburb-level, not a report on your block — check your address on the Queensland planning portal.

Builders serving Nundah

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What building in Nundah actually involves

Water can reach Nundah two ways — from the creek and from the bay. The suburb carries creek and waterway flood planning areas 2, 3 and 4, an overland flow area, and a mapped storm tide high hazard area. What it does not carry is any bushfire overlay.

Three flood controls, three different answers

Overland flow is rainwater crossing the surface toward a drain it cannot reach in time — shallow, fast, managed with floor levels and where you put a garage. Creek and waterway flooding is a watercourse leaving its channel, graded 1 to 4 by severity. A storm tide hazard area is surge pushed inland from the bay along tidal water. They are separate maps with separate provisions, and a block can be in one, two or all three. A builder who answers "is it flood affected" with a single yes or no has not looked at three maps.

Coastal controls on an inner-north block

The erosion prone area is also mapped here. It is a setback measured from the shoreline that allows for sea level rise, and Queensland maps it along tidal waterways as well as the open coast. Where it or the storm tide area applies, minimum habitable floor levels can be set — which changes the slab or the stumps and therefore the price.

No bushfire overlay

None is mapped across Nundah under Brisbane City Plan 2014. That removes the Bushfire Attack Level assessment and everything downstream of it.

Landslide and biodiversity

A landslide hazard overlay and biodiversity areas including high ecological significance land are both mapped.

What to ask a builder

Ask which of the three water controls touches the block, by name. Ask what habitable floor level the answer produces, before the slab is priced.

Local landmarks in Nundah

Questions about building in Nundah

Is Nundah flood-affected?

Parts of it, in three different ways: an overland flow flood planning area, creek and waterway flood planning areas 2, 3 and 4, and a storm tide high hazard area. They are separate maps with separate provisions.

Why does an inner-north suburb have storm tide mapping?

Storm tide and erosion prone mapping follow tidal waterways inland, not just the open coast. Where either applies, minimum habitable floor levels can be set, which changes the slab or the stumps.

Is Nundah bushfire prone?

No bushfire overlay is mapped across the suburb under Brisbane City Plan 2014. That removes the Bushfire Attack Level assessment and the construction standards that follow it.

What zones are mapped in Nundah?

General residential and Emerging communities. Emerging communities land is held for future urban purposes rather than being a standard house block.

Does Nundah have acid sulfate soils?

They are not mapped in the suburb.

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