Logan interactive mapping: how to use the planning map

Logan City Council's interactive planning scheme mapping is the Logan ePlan, a free online viewer at logan.isoplan.com.au/eplan. You type in a street address or lot and plan, select the property, and read the zone, local plan and overlays that apply, with links to the matching parts of the Logan Planning Scheme 2015. It runs in a web browser, needs no account, and takes a couple of minutes. Council also runs the Logan PD Hub, which has its own interactive mapping and property reports. Here is how to use both, what the map shows, and what it leaves out.

LayeredGeo is not part of Logan City Council or the Queensland Government. The Logan ePlan is a free council tool and the right place to start for zoning and planning overlays in the City of Logan.

Which Logan scheme is current

As of October 2026 the current scheme on council's website is the Logan Planning Scheme 2015, version 9.2, which commenced on 1 July 2025. Council has drafted a new scheme called Logan Plan and consulted on it in late 2025, but its own timeline puts adoption years away, so the 2015 scheme is the one that applies. The ePlan loads the latest version by default, and the top of the left-hand panel shows the version and its commencement date, so you can check it yourself.

The scheme does not cover the priority development areas of Yarrabilba and Flagstone, which are managed by the Queensland Government. If your property is in one of those, the Logan maps will not give you the answer.

How to find a property in the Logan ePlan

1. Open the Logan ePlan. The landing page has buttons to view the planning scheme, view the map and make a submission. Choose the map option.
2. Use the search bar at the top left of the map. Type the street address or the lot and plan from your contract or listing, for example "Lot 11 SP 210666". Do not use commas in the address. Pause after typing and pick your property from the list of matches.
3. Wait a moment. The first search can be slow because the map data is loading.
4. Or skip the search: pan and zoom to the area and click the property on the map.
5. With the property selected, the left-hand panel shows information for that lot, with links to the planning scheme chapters that apply to it, a link to the full scheme and a link to the Planning Scheme Property Report in the PD Hub.
6. Use the Map Tools box on the right to turn layers on and off, adjust transparency so you can see the aerial photo under the zones, and open the legend.

Tip: if a layer is ticked but nothing appears, zoom in or out. Some layers only draw at certain scales. Newly created lots can take a while to appear, because the scheme has to be amended to pick up new boundaries.

What the map shows

The ePlan shows the maps that form part of the Logan Planning Scheme 2015, along with base layers such as property boundaries, aerial imagery and contours.

• Zones: the zone the land is in, which sets the broad range of uses and development allowed. Zones are drawn as coloured blocks.
• Local plans and precincts: extra planning detail for particular parts of the city.
• Overlays (Part 8 of the scheme): the map layers that matter most to buyers. Council's own help guide mentions flooding, landslide and biodiversity, and the scheme's overlay list also includes bushfire hazard, heritage and acid sulfate soils, among others. Each overlay has a code that sets extra rules for building on affected land.
• Infrastructure: the Planning Scheme Property Report also notes trunk infrastructure considerations from the Local Government Infrastructure Plan, such as major road, sewer or water infrastructure.

The Planning Scheme Property Report in the PD Hub summarises the zone, precinct, local plan and overlays for a lot, including how much of the lot each overlay covers. That coverage figure is useful, because an overlay that clips one corner of a block is very different from one that covers it.

Logan's flood tools

Logan has more than one flood tool, and it helps to know which does what.

• The flood hazard overlay in the planning scheme. Flood provisions are currently affected by Temporary Local Planning Instrument No. 1/2024, which commenced on 6 March 2025 and applies council's risk-based flood mapping. Council says this instrument overrides the flood provisions in the Logan Planning Scheme 2015 while it is in place.
• The Logan Flood Portal at flood.logan.qld.gov.au. It is free and shows flood study mapping such as depth, velocity, level and hazard, and it can produce a flood report for a property or a selected point.
• Council's flood page at logan.qld.gov.au/flood explains the steps: find your property in the Flood Portal, review the mapping, get the flood report, then use the ePlan or PD Hub to see which planning provisions apply.

For a suburb-level look at how flood mapping varies across the council area, see our Logan flood map by suburb page.

What the map does not tell you

• It is not a planning certificate or a council property search. The ePlan is an information tool. For a formal written statement, you order a search from council. Council also asks you to contact it if you think the map is wrong.
• An overlay is not a flood depth. The overlay says the land is in a mapped area with extra rules. How deep the water gets on the lot comes from the Flood Portal report, and even that is a model. Land outside any overlay can still be hit by local drainage.
• Proposed changes may not show. The current scheme is what applies today. Amendments, and Logan Plan, are separate until adopted.
• Easements and covenants. These come from the title, not from a planning map.
• Ground conditions. Soil reactivity, geology, fill and groundwater are not planning layers, and they drive footing design and slab cost.
• Neighbouring land. Check the lots next door as well. An overlay that stops at the fence still says something about the street.

Putting the planning layers in one PDF

The Logan ePlan is the official source, so start there. If you are comparing several properties, or want the planning layers plus other site data together in one document, LayeredGeo's Property Report pulls zoning, flood, bushfire, heritage, vegetation and environmental overlays for an address into a single PDF, with a map and a plain-English note for each, alongside contours, registered easements and the water, sewer and stormwater mains the utilities publish. The map preview is free and the PDF is $9. Pop in your address or check out a sample report.

If you are building, a separate geotechnical desktop study covers the geology, soils, indicative soil reactivity range and groundwater for the address. It does not replace a site investigation, which is what decides the site classification.

Common questions

What is the Logan interactive mapping tool? Logan City Council's interactive mapping is the Logan ePlan, a free online viewer for the Logan Planning Scheme 2015 with a property search. Council's Logan PD Hub also offers interactive mapping and property reports.

How do I check the zoning of a property in Logan? Open the Logan ePlan map, search the street address or lot and plan, and select the property. The left-hand panel shows the zone, local plan and overlays that apply, with links to the relevant parts of the scheme.

Is the Logan Planning Scheme 2015 still current? Yes. The current version on council's website is version 9.2, which commenced on 1 July 2025. Council is working on a new scheme, Logan Plan, but it had not replaced the 2015 scheme at the time of writing.

How do I check if a Logan property floods? Use the Logan Flood Portal to see flood study mapping and get a flood report for the property, then check the flood provisions in the ePlan or PD Hub. An overlay shows mapped flood areas, not the modelled depth on your lot.

LayeredGeo's Property Report pulls together public planning and site data for property due diligence across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT and Tasmania, so you can understand a place before you commit.

About this article. Published by LayeredGeo and written from the published research cited in the Sources section above. It is general information about how property and ground conditions are assessed in Australia, not engineering, planning, legal or financial advice, and it is not specific to any property. Check anything that matters against the source dataset or a suitably qualified professional before you rely on it. If you spot something wrong, tell us at hello@layeredgeo.com.au and we will fix it.

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