Home builders in Cleveland

Cleveland is the Redlands' centre and it is mapped Medium Density Residential with Low Density and Low-medium Density alongside — a three-step band Redland uses that most Queensland schemes do not.

Low-medium density is its own zone here

It sits between the low-density suburb and the medium-density centre, and it exists to allow something more than a single dwelling without allowing apartments. If your block is in it, the realistic options are different from either neighbour, and a builder working from a Brisbane City Plan assumption will have the wrong reference.

Storm tide high hazard on Moreton Bay

Cleveland Point and the foreshore are mapped in the storm tide hazard area, and the erosion prone area applies as well. Where storm tide applies it can set a minimum habitable floor level, which changes the slab on low coastal ground.

Three council overlays, and bushfire is one of them

The Redland City Plan maps a bushfire hazard overlay, a flood and storm tide hazard overlay and a landslide hazard overlay across parts of Cleveland. Queensland publishes no statewide bushfire layer, so the council overlay is the only source — and on a bayside suburb it is easy to assume it does not apply. It does.

What to ask a builder

Ask which of the three residential zones covers the block. Ask what floor level the design assumes and whether it came from the storm tide mapping. And ask what corrosion category the external hardware is specified to.