Document library

Please find below various links for your convenience to the New Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme Project updates, the relevant Council documents and livestreams, other Council documents and project links and State Government planning links.

Council meeting documents

Meeting date: 28 January 2021

• Agenda 280121 OM extracted for web (PDF, 396KB)
• Attachment 1 – Planning scheme review planning scheme review report 280121 OM (PDF, 7669KB)
• Attachment 2 – Planning scheme review project plan 280121 OM (PDF, 1944KB)
• Attachment 3 – Planning scheme review proposed community engagement approach 280121 OM (PDF, 929KB)
• Minutes 280121 OM (PDF, 245KB).

Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Council strategies and plans

• Sunshine Coast Council Corporate Plan 2025-30
• Environment and Liveability Strategy 2013-2041
• Regional Economic Development Strategy 2013-2033
• Sunshine Coast Community Strategy 2019-2041
• Sunshine Coast Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy (2021)
• Sunshine Coast Design Strategy
• Sunshine Coast Integrated Transport Strategy (2019)
• Sunshine Coast Parking Management Plan (2017)
• Sunshine Coast Stormwater Management Strategy (2021)
• Sunshine Coast Reconciliation Action Plan 2021-2022
• Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Resource Recovery Strategy 2023

Council major regional projects and other information, including

• Blue Heart Sunshine Coast Project
• Protection of the Inter-urban Break
• Sunshine Coast Biosphere
• Sunshine Coast Airport
• Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network Project
• Sunshine Coast Public Transport Project
• Sunshine Coast Health Precinct
• Sunshine Coast Business and Technology Precinct
• Flood mapping and information.

State government planning links

• Planning Act 2016
• Planning Regulation 2017
• State Planning Policy, guidance material and mapping
• South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023
• Minister’s Guidelines and Rules
• Integrating state interests in planning schemes - Guidance for local government
• Delivery of State interests through the Planning Regulation 2017 - Guidance for local government
• Planning code guidance
• Local planning assistance
• Plan making dashboard.

Preliminary consultation documents

To help inform the development of the new planning scheme, Council prepared the Sunshine Coast Land Use Planning Proposal 2041, which includes:

• Part 1 - Proposed vision and regional planning directions (PDF, 1466KB)
• Part 2 - Proposed local planning directions (PDF, 1881KB).

Council also identified "hot planning topics" or issues for consideration in the drafting of the new planning scheme.

• Hot planning topics (PDF, 6770KB).

Council undertook preliminary consultation on the proposed planning directions and hot planning topics in February and March 2022.  The outcomes from the preliminary consultation are detailed in the following:

• Summary and Outcomes 
• Final Consultation Report
• Issues Consideration and Next Steps - Preliminary Consultation Program

Feedback received from the preliminary consultation has helped inform the drafting of the new planning scheme.