Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme – State Interest Review

A proposed new Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme has now been formally submitted to the State Government for first State Interest Review.

This is the next stage of the plan-making process and follows a period of intensive drafting and deliberation by Council as well as extensive preliminary (non-statutory) community consultation on proposed region-wide and local planning directions that occurred in early 2022.

Our community will again be consulted once the State’s Planning Minister and new Council have approved the draft planning scheme to be put on formal  public display.

Up-to-date information on the status of the New Planning Scheme Project is available on Council’s website where you can also register to receive project updates and be notified of future community engagement activities.

The overall plan making process generally takes three to four years to complete in total, noting that the timing of certain steps in the process, such as the state interest reviews, are not within Council’s control.

The process for preparing a new planning scheme is governed by the Planning Act 2016 and associated Minister’s guidelines and rules.