Moreton Bay Regional Council Building Heights Overlay Planning Data

The Building Heights Overlay is a statutory planning document for the Moreton Bay Region, regulating land development. It replaces three former council schemes and defines height limits and other development considerations. The dataset is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON and KML.

Use Cases

• Analyze Building Heights and Height Limits constraints for property development feasibility studies.
• Map Overlay extents to identify parcels affected by multiple planning scheme regulations.
• Assess development potential using Storeys and Floors data for urban planning models.
• Integrate Town Planning overlays with other spatial datasets for regional growth analysis.

Strengths

• Data is a statutory document with legal authority for land use regulation.
• Available in multiple interoperable geospatial formats (GeoJSON, KML, CSV, REST API).
• Maintained by a regional government authority (City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub).

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and spatial sample size are unknown.
• Attribute definitions are tied to a specific legislative framework (Queensland Planning Provisions), which may limit cross-jurisdiction applicability.
• The description provides no sample data to verify structure or content before download.

Provenance

Source

City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub, author moretonbaygis.

Collection Method

Statutory planning document digitized as geospatial overlay, per Queensland Planning Provisions.

Time Range

Version dated October 2021.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.