Message from the Mayor, spring 2025 - Time to have your say on 'Logan Plan'

We live in the best part of Australia and there are plenty of people voting with their feet by moving here.

Logan is the fastest growing city in Queensland, and we experience the pressure of that on our roads every day. While growth can be challenging, it gives us the opportunity to design a city together with our community.

We need to do more than manage this growth, we should use it to benefit our residents. To do that we need to think about our future and start doing better long-term planning.

That’s where Logan Plan comes in.

Logan Plan is our new planning  scheme, and it is the framework for everything from where homes, businesses and community facilities will be built, to how green space, roads and public transport will connect us.

Council’s planning team has been working hard on our new scheme for several years but now need to hear from you.

Public consultation on Logan Plan is open and will run until Friday, 31 October. During this time, you can learn more about the planning scheme and provide feedback by visiting Council’s website.

I’ll also be hosting online and in-person meetings to listen to your concerns and answer any questions about the Logan Plan and our updated flood mapping.

We all know that flooding is becoming more common. The impacts of floods and the clean up afterwards can take months or even years for some people to fully recover.

Flood mapping is never a popular topic, but it’s one of the steps we must take as part of drafting Logan Plan. The work on this flood mapping began back in 2021, off the back of changes to how the State Government requires Councils to assess flood risk.

We know this information helps people prepare for floods and can have other impacts too, including what you can do with your land and how properties are valued. Often the biggest impact is the cost of insurance.

Residents contact me because they are frustrated that insurance companies hike premiums and blame new flood mapping. But insurers started doing this before we had even shared our flood maps with them.

Flood overlays are models based on the best available data and include on-ground flood studies. They are designed to stop structures, especially houses, being built in the floodplain.

This limits what some people can do with their land, but it also limits further impacts of flooding – especially to homes that don’t currently flood.

Participating in our Logan Plan community consultation is a great opportunity to ask questions and make your voice heard.

Council wants new development to happen in the right place, at the right time with a focus on good design.

We want to encourage a more diverse range of housing, to support residents at every stage of life, from first home buyers to retirees and everyone in between.

There are rural lifestyles and larger suburban blocks we want to protect, while encouraging density where it makes sense – near public transport, amenities and existing infrastructure.

Logan Plan will be subject to review and final approval from the Queensland Government early next year and should roll out in late 2026.

To read more, or have your say, visit: logan.qld.gov.au/loganplan.

– Mayor Jon Raven