Ipswich Cultural Heritage and Vegetation Maps

Schedule 2 Character Places from the Ipswich Planning Scheme maps locations of cultural and environmental significance. The dataset includes four map layers covering historic places, trees and vegetation, Indigenous sites, and historic infrastructure. It is maintained by the Ipswich City Council and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify and map protected heritage sites using the Historic and Miscellaneous Places layer.
• Analyze tree canopy coverage and protected vegetation areas using the Trees and Vegetation layer.
• Locate Indigenous cultural sites for cultural impact assessments using the Indigenous layer.
• Plan infrastructure upgrades around historic infrastructure features using the Historic Infrastructure layer.
• Conduct streetscape character assessments by overlaying multiple Schedule 2 map layers.

Strengths

• Contains four distinct, thematically organized geospatial map layers.
• Data is updated automatically on changes to the planning scheme.

Limitations

• Unknown total number of mapped features or spatial extent.
• No information on attribute data (columns) available for each mapped place.

Provenance

Source

Ipswich City Council

Collection Method

Part of the official Ipswich Planning Scheme documentation.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated on changes to the Scheme; last metadata update was April 2026.

Geography

Ipswich, Queensland, Australia