The Central Highlands Regional Council currently has four current IPA Planning Schemes that are in force over the former local government land areas of Bauhinia, Duaringa, Emerald and Peak Downs.  The Planning Schemes are statutory documents that set out Council’s intention for each areas future development.  They contain information about the zoning of land, identify specific criteria for development in constrained areas and detail the provisions that relate to the development of land uses.

This web site also contains a copy of the Superseded IPA Planning Scheme for Emerald Shire that was gazetted on the 29 January 2007 and became a superseded planning scheme with the commencement the IPA Planning Scheme (Amendment No. 1) for Emerald Shire on the 9 January 2009.

If you need to identify which of the four planning scheme applies to a particular site within the CHRC area please refer to the locality map.

       Locality Map

To view and download available  Planning Scheme documents please Click Here.