Priority Living Areas for Queensland Regional Plans, May 2026

Priority Living Areas (PLA) as identified within seven Queensland regional plans, including Central Queensland and South East Queensland. The dataset is published by the Queensland State Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and was last updated in May 2026. It is available in multiple geospatial formats such as SHP, GPKG, and KMZ.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional development priorities based on designated Priority Living Areas.
• Model future infrastructure needs based on planned residential growth zones.
• Integrate planning boundaries into larger geospatial analyses for Queensland.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, TAB, GPKG, KMZ, FGDB, XML) for tool flexibility.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly defined for seven distinct Queensland regions.

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, focusing solely on Queensland.

Provenance

Source

State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, Queensland Government ([email protected])

Time Range

Snapshot as of May 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:35:36.636832; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central Queensland, Darling Downs, Cape York, Far North Queensland, North Queensland, Wide Bay Burnett, and South East Queensland, Australia