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View updates, documents, links, and livestreams related to the project.
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 2021-2025
- Environment and Liveability Strategy 2013-2033
- 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
- Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Resource Recovery Strategy 2023
Council major regional projects and other information
- Blue Heart Sunshine Coast Project
- Protection of the Inter-urban Break
- Sunshine Coast Biosphere
- Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion Project
- Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network Project
- Sunshine Coast Public Transport Project
- State government transport projects for the Sunshine Coast
- 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 has 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. Feedback received from the preliminary consultation will help inform the drafting of the new planning scheme.