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Brisbane City Council · Brisbane City Plan 2014 · Brisbane South Knockdown rebuild

Council
Brisbane City Council
Planning scheme
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Overlays mapped here
Bushfire overlay · 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
Rural residential
Bushfire-prone land
Mapped in this suburb
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 Carindale

None yet — tell us what you're building and we'll go and find one.

What building in Carindale actually involves

Carindale sits well back from open water and still intersects both the erosion prone area and a mapped storm tide high hazard area. Coastal hazard in Queensland follows the tidal creeks inland, and the mapping does not stop at the beach.

Why a coastal control reaches a suburb like this

The erosion prone area is a setback measured from the shoreline that allows for sea level rise, and it is mapped along tidal waterways as well as along the coast. The storm tide hazard area is the land a storm surge can reach. Where either applies, minimum habitable floor levels can be set, and that changes the slab or the stumps and therefore the price — on a block that looks and feels entirely inland.

Four more hazard overlays

Brisbane City Plan 2014 also maps a landslide overlay, an overland flow flood planning area, creek and waterway flood planning areas 2, 3 and 4, and biodiversity areas including high ecological significance land. Overland flow and creek flooding are separate controls with separate consequences, and a block can be in one, both or neither.

Three zones in 10.68 km²

General residential, Emerging communities and Rural residential are all mapped. Emerging communities land is held for future urban purposes and is not a standard house block; rural residential is a different build again.

Bushfire

Part of Carindale is mapped in the bushfire overlay, across medium hazard, high hazard and high hazard buffer areas. A block inside one is built to a Bushfire Attack Level.

What to ask a builder

Ask which hazard overlays touch the block, one by one — they are separate maps. Ask what minimum floor level, if any, applies before the design is priced.

Local landmarks in Carindale

Questions about building in Carindale

Why does an inland suburb have coastal hazard mapping?

Queensland's erosion prone area and storm tide hazard mapping follow tidal waterways inland, not just the open coast. Carindale intersects both, and where they apply they can set minimum habitable floor levels.

What flood mapping applies in Carindale?

Two separate kinds: an overland flow flood planning area, which is surface water in heavy rain, and creek and waterway flood planning areas 2, 3 and 4. A block can be in one, both or neither.

What zones are mapped in Carindale?

General residential, Emerging communities and Rural residential. Emerging communities land is held for future urban purposes and is not a standard house block.

Is Carindale bushfire prone?

Part of it is mapped in the Brisbane City Plan 2014 bushfire overlay, across medium hazard, high hazard and high hazard buffer areas. Affected blocks are built to a Bushfire Attack Level.

Does Carindale have acid sulfate soils?

They are not mapped in the suburb, so that investigation is not required here.

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