Have Your Say on the Proposed Planning Scheme
Council invites everyone to provide feedback on the proposed planning scheme and planning scheme policies during the consultation period. Whether you support the plan or have concerns, your input matters.
You can comment on any aspect of the proposed planning scheme or planning scheme policies by making a properly made submission. Submissions are to be received by Council on or before midnight on Friday, 19 September 2025.
Go to the online submission form.
Before submitting feedback:
Find out more about the proposed planning scheme and how it may affect you and our region:
- explore plans for our region and your local area
- generate a site report (via My property)
- learn more about how issues important to our community are being addressed
- view detailed information sheets
- review the proposed planning scheme in ePlan (with text and interactive mapping)
- read our Privacy statement and collection notice.
The Sunshine Coast Council is committed to handling your personal information in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) and the Queensland Privacy Principles.
The personal information collected in your submission will be used for the purposes of public consultation on the proposed planning scheme and planning scheme policies in accordance with the Planning Act 2016 and the Minister’s Guidelines and Rules 2024 and to maintain contact with you.
Council will be using third parties to assist in the assessment of your information, including:
- Artificial Intelligence (Azure OpenAI GPT-4) to analyse, summarise and classify or group submissions by topic and sentiment to support the efficient review of all submissions made to Council.
- Third party providers to collect, assess and summarise submissions for the purpose of review and reporting about submissions made to Council.
Your personal information may be stored by third party providers in accordance with Council’s procurement agreements and in accordance with the Information Privacy Act (2009) (Qld) and the Public Records Act (2023).
Council will be using information collected from submissions to prepare a consultation report that summarises and consolidates your feedback to inform the review of all submissions made to the proposed planning scheme and proposed planning scheme policies. Once the submission review process is complete, the consultation report will be publicly released by Council. Your submission and personal details will not be published publicly.
Our privacy policy explains how you may request access to and/or correction of your personal information. Our policy also explains how you can complain to us if you consider we have breached our obligations to manage your personal information in accordance with the Queensland Privacy Principles, and how we deal with privacy complaints. For more information and Council’s privacy policy, please refer to scc.qld.gov.au/privacy.
If you have questions regarding how your personal information will be handled for this project, contact us at:
| Attention: | Strategic Planning |
| Mail: | Sunshine Coast Regional Council Proposed Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme Reply Paid 84374 SUNSHINE COAST MC QLD 4560 |
| Email: | newplanningscheme@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au |
| Phone: | (07) 5409 0570 |
Making a submission
You can provide feedback on any aspect of the proposed planning scheme. Think about things like:
- proposed planning scheme maps – for example, the proposed zoning, building height, or overlay mapping for a specific property or area of interest
- proposed planning scheme text – such as the strategic framework, zone codes, local plans, development codes, or planning scheme policies.
Want to learn more about the elements of a planning scheme? Learn more at Understanding the proposed planning scheme.
Submission form
Council will also accept:
Email submissions |
Hard copy submissions | |
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| We encourage you to use the online submission form for convenience. If you prefer, you can email your submission to: newplanningscheme@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au |
Mail: Sunshine Coast Regional Council |
In person: Maroochydore Office (City Hall) Caloundra Office Nambour Office |
