View our planning scheme online
Status update
At its General Meeting on 18 June 2025, Council decided to adopt Administrative Amendment No. 3 to the MBRC Planning Scheme 2016 (the planning scheme), to account for administrative changes that occurred in the migration of the planning scheme to a new online planning scheme viewer (eScheme). No changes to the policy content of version 7 of the planning scheme were made. This administrative amendment commenced on the 23 June 2025 creating version 7.1 of the planning scheme.
For a summary of the administrative changes made, see the adopted Administrative Amendment Instrument No. 3 by visiting Planning scheme amendments.
For enquiries regarding commencement of the new version 7.1 of the planning scheme, email mbrcplanningscheme@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
Planning scheme document
The MBRC Planning Scheme was adopted by Council on 24 November 2015 and commenced on Monday 1 February 2016. More information about how to read and apply the planning scheme and how it works is provided in the How to read a planning scheme information sheet(PDF, 723KB).
The planning scheme is provided as an eScheme, intended to be used in electronic form, which allows you to navigate around the document using the menu on the left. The various parts of the planning scheme document are also available to download as PDF files from within the eScheme online viewer.
View the eScheme
View the MBRC Planning Scheme document as an eScheme
The current version 7.1 of the planning scheme provided contains amendments made since its initial commencement on 1 February 2016. Amendments made to the scheme since it was adopted are detailed under Planning scheme amendments.
View Superseded and historical versions of the planning scheme.
Commencement of version 7 of the MBRC Planning Scheme (including Major Amendment No. 3 - the ‘Better Housing Amendment’)
Version 7 of the MBRC Planning Scheme 2016 (superseded planning scheme), incorporating the adopted Major Amendment No. 3 - the ‘Better Housing Amendment,’ ‘Planning Scheme Policies Amendment No. 2’ and Minor Amendment No. 3 - ‘Voluntary Home Buy Back Program Zoning Updates,’ commenced on 30 October 2024.
To assist in the preparation of well-made development applications under the superseded version 6 and version 7 of the planning scheme, refer to the Code Templates (MS Word versions) and PDF sections of the superseded planning scheme available from Superseded and historical versions of the Planning Scheme.
In addition, adopted versions of the relevant Amendment Instruments detailing the changes incorporated into superseded version 7 of the planning scheme can be accessed via:
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