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Runaway Bay planning overlays

A planning-constraint profile of Runaway Bay (Gold Coast City, QLD) — 7.36 km², mapped from live council and state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.

Schematic generated from Runaway Bay's actual boundary and overlay geometry — not an aerial photo. It shows where constraints fall; the interactive map shows them on your exact address.

75%
In a flood overlay
12%
Bushfire-prone
17%
Environmental overlay
0
Heritage-listed sites

How Runaway Bay is zoned

Low density residential 33%
Medium density residential 22%
Conservation 19%
Open space 17%
Sport and recreation 4%
Centre 3%

Across its 7.36 km², Runaway Bay is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 75% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 12% is flagged bushfire-prone. , and the dominant land-use zone is Low density residential. These figures are suburb-wide — the overlays that actually apply to a given lot can differ block to block, which is what a property-level check tells you.

Check a specific Runaway Bay address

See exactly which overlays touch a single property — the interactive map is free. Need it on paper? A full planning PDF is just $9.

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