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Redland City Council · Redland City Plan · Redlands Coastal

Council
Redland City Council
Planning scheme
Redland City Plan
Overlays mapped here
Bushfire hazard overlay · Flood and storm tide hazard overlay · Landslide hazard overlay · Erosion prone area · Storm tide hazard area
Residential zones mapped
Emerging Communities
Low Density Residential
Low-medium Density Residential
Medium Density 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 Victoria Point

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

What building in Victoria Point actually involves

Victoria Point carries four zones — Low Density, Low-medium Density, Medium Density and Emerging Communities, Queensland's future-urban zone — across 13.4 km² on the bay.

Emerging Communities land is not settled suburb

It sits in the development pipeline: staging, infrastructure sequencing and later detailed planning all bear on what happens and when. A lot inside it behaves like growth-corridor land even though the streets next door are forty years old. Establishing which side of that boundary your block sits on comes before everything else.

Storm tide and erosion on the bay

Storm tide high hazard is mapped, along with the erosion prone area. Where storm tide applies a minimum habitable floor level follows; the erosion prone area affects siting near the foreshore rather than only construction.

Bushfire, flood and landslide are all mapped

The Redland City Plan maps a bushfire hazard overlay, a flood and storm tide hazard overlay and a landslide hazard overlay across parts of Victoria Point. Queensland publishes no statewide bushfire layer, so the council overlay is the only place that finding comes from — and on a bay suburb it is the one people assume away.

What to ask a builder

Ask which of the four zones covers the block, and specifically whether it is Emerging Communities. Ask what floor level the design assumes. And ask what corrosion category the external hardware is specified to.

Local landmarks in Victoria Point

Questions about building in Victoria Point

What zone is Victoria Point?

Four are mapped: Low Density, Low-medium Density and Medium Density Residential, plus Emerging Communities — Queensland’s future-urban zone.

What does the Emerging Communities zone mean?

The land sits in the development pipeline rather than being settled suburb. Staging, infrastructure sequencing and later detailed planning all bear on what happens and when.

Will storm tide affect my build?

Storm tide high hazard is mapped. Where it applies a minimum habitable floor level follows, which changes the slab on low bayside ground.

Is Victoria Point bushfire-prone?

Part of it is. A bushfire hazard overlay is mapped across parts of the suburb under the Redland City Plan. Queensland has no statewide layer, so that council overlay is the source, and a block inside it is built to a Bushfire Attack Level.

What does the erosion prone area do?

It identifies land at risk of shoreline recession over the planning period, and near the foreshore it affects where a building may go rather than only how it is built.

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