Our Current Planning Scheme

Planning for the future means focusing on what our region is like now, while thinking about what we want for the future.

As our region grows, we need to make sure that we:

  • manage urban growth
  • strengthen our communities
  • assist economic development
  • improve the choices available for where and how we live, work and play.

Our Planning Scheme contributes significantly to these objectives. It helps to:

  • guide decision making in the public interest
  • balance private, government and community interests
  • identify hazards and reduce risks
  • protect environmental, social, cultural and heritage values for the future.

Our region is also supported by the State Government’s Wide Bay Burnett Regional Plan, which was adopted in 2023. This plan further guides land use and development in the region.

The Gympie Regional Council Planning Scheme was adopted by Council in June 2013 and commenced on Monday 1 July 2013.

Council adopted Amendment Package 3 to the Gympie Regional Council Planning Scheme 2013 at its ordinary meeting in August 2024, creating a new Version 4 to the Planning Scheme. The amendment was gazetted on 27 September 2024 and took effect on 1 October 2024.

Council is in the process of preparing a new planning scheme to help us plan for our growing needs over the next 20-25 years. You can find more information here.

Click on the below button to view our current planning scheme or take a look at the Planning Scheme maps below.

Planning Scheme v4.0

Planning Scheme v4.0 Maps

Local Government Infrastructure Planning Maps

Gympie Regional Council Standard Drawings index

Design and Construction Code - Water and Sewerage

Gympie Regional Council follow the WBBROC Design and Construction Code for consistency across the Wide Bay Burnett when designing and constructing new water supply and sewerage assets.

This was previously known as the Wide Bay Burnett Regional Organisation of Councils (WBBROC) Design and Construction Code.

FAQ - Planning Scheme

  • The Planning Scheme contains Gympie Regional Council’s intentions for the future development in the planning scheme area over the next 20 years.

    • All public and private land
    • Roads
    • Internal waterways and
    • Local government tidal areas

  • Yes, the following Amendment and Resolutions have been added:

Planning Scheme GIS Data Files

# Name Size (in bytes) Size File Type Download

In this section