Queensland's Department of Resources publishes a weekly list of applications for temporary or permanent road closures made under the Land Act 1994. The dataset excludes closures due to roadworks, conditions, or events. It is provided in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-06-28.
Use Cases
- Monitor changes in public road access based on published closure applications.
- Analyze spatial patterns of proposed land development based on road closure locations.
- Support legal and administrative reviews of land use proposals under the Land Act 1994.
Strengths
- Weekly update schedule provides regular data refresh.
- Clear legal scope defined by the Land Act 1994, excluding roadwork closures.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Row count and specific data columns are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on Queensland.
Provenance
- Source
- Queensland Department of Resources ([email protected]).
- Collection Method
- Applications submitted to the department under the Land Act 1994.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-28 14:58:08.932624; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Queensland, Australia.