QLD · Moreton Bay
Home builders in Bongaree
A builder’s licence is permission to trade. It is not a solvency test. 2,361 construction companies entered external administration last financial year, more than any other industry in the country — and no regulator checks whether the one quoting your Bongaree job can still pay its framer on Friday. We run the Four-Point Builder Check™: licence with QBCC, insurance sighted, still trading, and genuinely working in Bongaree. Then one name and the reasoning behind it — or a straight no.
- Costs you nothing, ever
- No obligation to use them
- Details never sold
Why this is harder than it looks in Bongaree
- Bongaree is not a generic block
Mapped here: 6 overlay families, bushfire-prone land. A builder who prices the house and discovers the site is a builder whose quote moves — and the variations land on you, not on them. The ones who work Bongaree regularly already know which of these reach which streets.
- A current licence tells you nothing about solvency
Every one of the companies behind that figure held a valid licence the day before it failed. The certificate on the wall says they are permitted to build. It does not say they can pay their framer on Friday.
What building in Bongaree actually involves
Part of Bongaree sits inside Queensland's erosion prone area. The thing worth understanding about it is not what it does to a block — it is who declares it. The erosion prone area is a State instrument made under Queensland's coastal management legislation, not a control your council wrote, and that changes who can move it and who has to be satisfied.
A council officer cannot vary a State line
Most of what constrains a house comes from the local planning scheme: the council wrote it, the council assesses against it, and there is usually a conversation to be had about a variation on its merits. The erosion prone area is different in kind. It is mapped by the State as a coastal setback, and development within it engages State coastal policy — which in some circumstances means the application is referred beyond the council altogether. A local officer being sympathetic does not resolve it, and a negotiation that would work on a setback or a site cover figure has nowhere to go here.
So the answer comes earlier and from somewhere else
Practically, that means finding the erosion prone area boundary across the specific parcel at the search stage rather than at design, and asking the council directly whether a proposal in that position would require a State referral — because a referral adds a party, a timeframe and a different set of considerations to the assessment. It is the kind of thing that turns a three-month approval into a longer one, and the trigger is a mapped line rather than a judgement about your design.
Nineteen acid sulfate features, and the same island says zero
Nineteen acid sulfate soil features are mapped across Bongaree's 6.92 km². Banksia Beach, on the same island under the same planning scheme, maps none at all. That is worth stating because it defeats the natural shortcut: the ground under one part of a sand island is not evidence about the ground under another. Where the mapping applies, disturbing soil below the mapped level requires consent and a plan for handling what comes out, so the depth of your excavation is what decides whether it costs anything.
Storm tide high hazard across the suburb
Bongaree intersects a mapped storm tide high hazard area, which sets a minimum habitable floor level where it reaches a block. Read together with the erosion prone area, the two say different things — one about position and one about height — and a block caught by both has its envelope narrowed from two directions at once.
One zone, no heritage overlay
The suburb is mapped General residential throughout, with no heritage overlay mapped. There is very little in the planning scheme here that will surprise anyone. The surprises, if they come, are in the State coastal mapping and in the ground.
Bushfire is a gap in our data, not an absence
Queensland maps bushfire hazard through each council's own scheme overlay rather than a single statewide layer, and the City of Moreton Bay's is not wired into our data. That is a limitation on our side and we would rather name it than let silence read as a clear result. The overlay in the Moreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme is where the answer for a specific address lives.
What to establish on a Bongaree block
Where the erosion prone area line falls across the parcel, and whether a proposal in that position triggers a State referral — ask the council that question explicitly and early. Then the storm tide floor level. Then the acid sulfate class and the depth that triggers it, against what you actually intend to dig. Then the council's bushfire overlay.
What you are dealing with in Bongaree
Six things a builder prices differently. This is the suburb-level picture — which of them reaches your block is an address check.
- Bushfire Mapped BAL assessment; glazing, decking and screening spec.
- Flood Mapped Sets a minimum floor level. Flood report first.
- Heritage Not checked Held in each council's own planning scheme overlay and on the Queensland Heritage Register; no statewide layer publishes a per-suburb count
- Slope Mapped Geotech report before footings can be priced.
- Soil Acid sulfate Below trigger depth: management plan, treatment, disposal.
- Density controls 1 zone What may be built, and how much. Set parcel by parcel.
What is mapped in Bongaree
Read from Queensland Government open spatial data + individual councils, not a summary of it.
- Council
- City of Moreton Bay
- Planning scheme
- Moreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme
- Overlays mapped here
- Bushfire hazard overlay · Flood hazard overlay · Landslide hazard overlay · Erosion prone area · Storm tide hazard area · Acid sulfate soils
- Residential zones mapped
- General residential
- Bushfire-prone land
- Mapped in this suburb
- Acid sulfate soils
- Mapped in this suburb
- Storm tide hazard
- high hazard area mapped
Planning data from Queensland Government open spatial data + individual councils (CC BY 4.0), read 2026-09-20. Suburb-level, not a report on your block — check your address on the Queensland planning portal.
Overlay families mapped here
The mechanism
The Four-Point Builder Check™
Every one of them is something you could do yourself. What we sell is that it has been done, dated and published — and repeated on a schedule, because a check that happened once is worth nothing.
- 01 · Licence
Looked up on QBCC's own public register — number, class and status, with the date we looked recorded.
- 02 · Insurance
Public liability plus whatever warranty or indemnity cover QLD requires. Sighted by us, not self-declared on a form.
- 03 · Still trading
Solvency re-checked on a schedule. A licence stays current right up until the day a company fails.
- 04 · Works in Bongaree
Confirmed with the builder against the suburbs they genuinely service — not a radius drawn on a map.
How this works
- 01Tell us about the build
Six questions, about three minutes.
- 02We match it against Bongaree
Against the 1 residential zone mapped here, 6 overlay families, bushfire-prone land — and against which builders hold the right licence class for it, have done it before, and actually work under City of Moreton Bay.
- 03One recommendation, with the reasoning
Not six quotes to sift. We negotiate on your behalf; you deal with the builder directly. Builders pay us, only once you sign.
What you get, and what it costs you
- One builder, not a list
We read your brief against what is actually mapped in Bongaree — 6 overlay families, bushfire-prone land, acid sulfate soils — and against which builders hold the right licence class, have built under these constraints before, and genuinely work under City of Moreton Bay. You get one name and the reasoning in writing.
- Or a straight no
The same business day you get one of two things: our recommendation, with the reasons — or a plain email saying we have not got a builder in Bongaree we would put our name to yet, and what we are doing about it. No drip campaign, no being passed around.
- It costs you nothing, ever
The builder pays us, and only if you sign with them. You are never charged, and you are never under any obligation to use the builder we name. How the fee works.
We are not a builder, we do not manage your build, and we do not hold your money.
Fair questions before you send anything
- You have no builders listed in Bongaree yet. What use is that?
A fair question, and the honest answer is that a list is not what we do. We do not publish a builder until the licence is checked, the insurance is sighted and we have confirmed they are still trading — so an empty list here means we have not finished that work in Bongaree, not that we cannot help. Send the brief and we go and find one for your block. If we cannot, you get told that, the same day, rather than being added to a mailing list.
- Why not just get three quotes myself?
You can, and for a simple job you probably should. The difficulty on a block in Bongaree is that quotes are only comparable when they assume the same things — and with 6 overlay families mapped here, two builders can price the same house against different assumptions about the site and both be quoting honestly. Sorting that out is the part we do.
Builders serving Bongaree
Questions about building in Bongaree
Who declares the erosion prone area?
The State, under Queensland's coastal management legislation — not the council. That matters because a local officer cannot vary a State line, and development within it engages State coastal policy, which in some circumstances means a referral beyond the council.
Can I negotiate a design within the erosion prone area?
Not the way you might negotiate a setback or a site cover figure with a council. The trigger is a mapped line rather than a judgement about your design. Find where it falls across the parcel at the search stage and ask the council whether a proposal there needs a State referral.
Do acid sulfate soils apply in Bongaree?
Nineteen features are mapped across 6.92 km². Banksia Beach, on the same island under the same scheme, maps none — so the ground under one part of the island is not evidence about another. What it costs depends on how deep the works go.
Will storm tide mapping set my floor level?
Where it reaches a block, yes — Bongaree intersects a mapped storm tide high hazard area, which sets a minimum habitable floor level. Read with the erosion prone area it narrows the envelope from two directions: one controls position, the other height.
Is Bongaree bushfire-prone?
Our data cannot answer it. Queensland maps bushfire hazard in each council's scheme overlay rather than a statewide layer, and the City of Moreton Bay's is not wired up here. That is a gap on our side rather than a clear result — check the council's overlay for the address.
What to ask a builder about a block in Bongaree
Each one is here because of something mapped in Bongaree. Take them to whoever quotes.
- 01
Confirm the zone at the address is General residential — and what it permits without a planning permit.
- 02
What bushfire attack level have you built to in Bongaree before, and what did it change in the glazing, decking and screening?
- 03
How deep can we excavate before acid sulfate soil management is triggered, and who carries that cost?
Local landmarks in Bongaree
- Dux Park
- Brennan Park
- Marquadt Park
- Butterfly House
- Bribie Island Ses
- Gary Parsons Park
No catch
What you are agreeing to
- Nothing. There is no contract with us, no account to create, no card, and nothing to cancel.
- No obligation to use whoever we recommend. Take the name and the reasoning and do what you like with it, including nothing.
- No phone number needed to start. Give us one if you want to be called; otherwise we write.
- One builder contacts you, not six. And only after you have seen the brief and said yes.
- Your details go to that builder and nobody else. Never sold, never auctioned, never shared with a panel.
- If we have nobody in Bongaree, we say so. That is a real answer we give, and the empty builder list above is the proof we mean it.
Building in Bongaree?
Licence checked with QBCC, insurance sighted, still trading, genuinely working in Bongaree. If we cannot find one worth recommending, we will say so.
Find my builder — free →Free · about 3 minutes · no obligation · your details are never sold