QLD Civil Hub

Council DA trackers, planning schemes, GIS & flood mapping, standard drawings and application forms for QLD civil work — in one page.

01 · Councils & Utilities

City Councils

• Brisbane City Council
• Logan City Council
• Ipswich City Council
• City of Moreton Bay
• Gold Coast City Council
• Redland City Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council

Water & Sewerage Utilities

• Unitywater — Moreton Bay, Noosa, Sunshine Coast
• Urban Utilities — Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Redland, Somerset
• Gold Coast Water

Other Utilities & Authorities

• Energex — Electricity (SEQ)
• Ergon Energy — Electricity (Regional QLD)
• TMR – Transport and Main Roads

02 · Maps & GIS

Development.i — DA Tracking (by council)

• Brisbane City Council — Development.i
• Logan City Council — Development Enquiry Tool
• Ipswich City Council — Development.i
• Moreton Bay — DA Tracker
• Gold Coast City Council — Development.i
• Redland City Council — Development.i
• Sunshine Coast Council — Development.i

PD Hub / Development Portal

• Logan — PD Hub

As-Constructed Plans (by council)

• Brisbane City Council — Stormwater Community Map — stormwater & utility networks (Community Maps)
• Logan City Council — As-Constructed Drainage Plans
• Urban Utilities — Open Data Map — water & sewer as-constructed
• Unitywater — Infrastructure Map — water & sewer as-constructed
• Moreton Bay — ADAC As-Constructed Data
• Ipswich — As-Constructed Drainage Plan Search — paid property search

Planning Schemes (ePlan / Online)

• Brisbane — City Plan 2014 (ePlan)
• Logan — Logan Planning Scheme (ePlan)
• Ipswich — City Plan 2025 (ePlan)
• Moreton Bay — MBRC Planning Scheme (eScheme)
• Gold Coast — City Plan (ePlan)
• Redland — Redland City Plan
• Sunshine Coast — Planning Scheme 2014

Community Maps (Brisbane City Council)

• Utilities — stormwater, water & sewer, electricity networks
• Land & Environment — property, vegetation, waterways, overlays
• Transport — roads, ferry, bikeways, parking
• Community & Recreation — parks, facilities, community assets

Council Open Data (GIS)

• City of Moreton Bay — Datahub — search, map and download council location-based open data

State Mapping

• QLD Globe — aerial, cadastral, topographic
• QSpatial — Queensland Spatial Catalogue — state spatial data

Flood & Drainage

• FloodCheck QLD — state flood plains, historic flood maps
• Brisbane Flood Awareness Map — opens directly in the standard map view

Water & Sewer Infrastructure

• Urban Utilities Open Data Map
• Unitywater Infrastructure Map

Environmental & Soils

• Acid Sulfate Soils — QLD Government
• QLD Environment Maps — wetlands, vegetation
• Fire Ant Biosecurity Zones — interactive map

03 · Standard Drawings

• BCC Standard Drawings
• Logan City Council Standard Drawings
• Ipswich City Council Standard Drawings
• MBRC Standard Drawings & Engineering Specs
• Gold Coast — Land Development Guidelines & Engineering Standards
• Unitywater Standard Drawings
• Urban Utilities Standards & Drawings
• TMR Standard Drawings (MRTS)

04 · Forms & Applications

Links go to official pages — always download the latest version from the source.

State Planning

• DA Forms — DA Form 1 & 2 (Planning QLD) — development application forms & templates, latest DA Form 1 / DA Form 2

Water Utilities

• Urban Utilities — Development Forms — design package submission (Major Works), as-constructed certification & all development forms
• Urban Utilities — As-Constructed Package Submissions — as-constructed package requirements & forms
• Unitywater — Reference Library — connection applications, approval amendments, A&C submission forms, CAD/ADAC standards

Councils

• Brisbane — Operational Works Application — OPW requirements, checklists & online application
• Brisbane — Prepare & Lodge a DA — DA preparation & online lodgement (incl. DA Form 1 & 2)
• Gold Coast — Operational Works — OPW application forms, engineering drawings approval, street lighting application
• Logan — Forms, Factsheets & Kits — planning & development forms and kits, incl. as-constructed submission kit
• Moreton Bay — DA Lodgement — DA & OPW electronic lodgement, plan endorsement forms

State Roads (TMR)

• TMR — Road Corridor Permit — ancillary works & encroachments on state-controlled roads, application requirements
• TMR — Road Corridor Permit Portal — online RCP application portal

Titles / Survey Plans

• Titles Queensland — Forms — Form 21 (Plan of Survey), Form 14 & all land registry forms, latest versions

05 · Reference & Resources

• QLD Public Holidays — 2026–2027 dates, next holiday highlighted
• Before You Dig Australia (BYDA) — free underground & overhead asset plans before excavation
• Standards Australia — Australian Standards (AS / AS​NZS)
• Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) — rainfall, IFD design rainfall, weather & climate data

06 · Calculators & Tools

Quick design-check calculators — they run entirely in your browser, nothing is sent to a server.

• Unit Converter — length, area, volume, flow, mass, pressure/head, angle (DMS ↔ decimal ° ↔ rad)
• Scale Converter — drawing measurement ↔ real world distance
• Slope Converter — %, 1 in X ratio, degrees, rise/run
• Slope from Dimensions — length + height (or RL / chainage) → slope
• Height / RL from Slope & Length — slope + length → height change, final RL
• Pipe Flow (Manning's) — full-bore capacity of a circular pipe
• Driveway Grade Checker — grade & change-of-grade vs AS/NZS 2890.1 limits
• Pipe Cover Checker — cover from surface & invert RL vs minimum