Brisbane Biodiversity Areas: Matters of State Environmental Significance

Brisbane City Council's open data platform provides a geospatial dataset identifying areas of state environmental significance for biodiversity. The data is part of the Brisbane City Plan 2014 overlay maps and is maintained by the Brisbane City Council. It was last updated on 2026-06-28.

Use Cases

• Assess development applications based on proximity to significant biodiversity areas mentioned in the overlay.
• Model habitat connectivity and conservation planning based on designated environmental significance areas.
• Inform land-use policy and zoning decisions based on the City Plan 2014 biodiversity overlay.

Strengths

• Data is part of a formal, regularly updated city planning instrument (Brisbane City Plan 2014).
• Specific sub-category for 'Matters of state environmental significance' is defined.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being specific to Brisbane.

Provenance

Source

Brisbane City Council ([email protected])

Collection Method

Likely derived from official planning and environmental assessments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 15:06:26.322690; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia