Ipswich Transport Corridor Development Buffers

Ipswich City Council provides geospatial overlay maps defining development buffer zones adjacent to highways and regional transport corridors. The dataset is maintained by the council and was last updated in April 2026. It represents a secondary regulatory layer within the Ipswich Planning Scheme for land protection and development constraint.

Use Cases

• Analyze development constraints by calculating distances from proposed sites to transport corridor buffer boundaries.
• Assess land protection requirements by overlaying property parcels with the 'Buffers to Highways and Regional Transport Corridors' map layer.
• Model potential development impacts on transport infrastructure using the defined geospatial buffer zones.

Strengths

• Data is updated on changes to the official Ipswich Planning Scheme.
• Provides multiple standard geospatial file formats including GEOJSON, SHP, and KML.

Limitations

• The dataset scope is limited to the Ipswich City Council jurisdiction.
• Specific row counts, sample sizes, and temporal coverage of the underlying data are not provided.

Provenance

Source

Ipswich City Council

Collection Method

Created as part of the official Ipswich Planning Scheme.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-04.

Geography

Ipswich, Queensland, Australia