Tourist accommodation zone
Part of: Residential zones
Concentrated tourist accommodation areas — major resorts, hotel precincts, holiday-park clusters. Applied in coastal and tourism-driven LGAs (Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Whitsunday).
Key Controls and Considerations
- •Permits hotels, motels, serviced apartments, resort complexes
- •Mixed permanent residential typically restricted
- •Centre Frame Tourism / Beachside controls common
- •Maximum height varies dramatically by location and DDO
How QLD zones work in practice
Each zone has a Land Use Table in the council planning scheme that classifies uses as accepted development (no DA needed), code-assessable (assessed against benchmarks only), impact-assessable (broad merit assessment with public notification), or prohibited. The same use is treated differently in different zones.
Zone controls are only one layer. Your project must also comply with applicable development assessment pathways, overlays (heritage, flood, bushfire, koala), state-level controls (State Planning Policy + SARA referrals), and any title restrictions (covenants, easements, registered dealings).
What does this zone mean for your specific QLD property?
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