Mapping
- Online mapping tool
- Trigger map
- Zones
- Protection and management areas
- Mitigation sub-zones
- Accessing digital data
- Interactive resource and tenure maps
Online mapping tool
The online mapping tool enables interested parties to view the trigger map on a particular property, free of charge. You can select an area of interest using a Lot on Plan number or central coordinate and obtain a trigger map of the property in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) via email.
Trigger map
The trigger map is a starting point for identifying strategic cropping land (SCL). The map is based on soil, land and climate information. The trigger map indicates the location of potential SCL in Queensland. However, it is the on-ground assessment against the SCL criteria that will define SCL at a site level.
- Statewide trigger map (PDF, 4.3M)*
Regional series of trigger maps
- S1 – Brisbane, Toowoomba region (PDF, 1.8M)*
- S2 – Goondiwindi, Roma, Chinchilla region (PDF, 1.3M)*
- S3 – Charleville, Mitchell region (PDF, 402K)*
- C1 – Bundaberg region (PDF, 810K)*
- C2 – Rockhampton, Emerald region (PDF, 775K)*
- C3 – Alpha region (PDF, 352K)*
- C4 – Mackay region (PDF, 814K)*
- C5 – Clermont, Charters Towers region (PDF, 533K)*
- N1 – Townsville region (PDF, 660K)*
- N2 – Innisfail region (PDF, 763K)*
- N3 – Cairns region (PDF, 306K)*
Zones
There are five zones that accommodate regional differences in climate, land forms and cropping systems—the Western Cropping, Eastern Darling Downs, Coastal Queensland, Wet Tropics and Granite Belt zones.
While the SCL criteria are consistent across these cropping areas, different threshold values define specific soil and landscape features within each zone.
- Strategic cropping land zone map (PDF, 485K)*.
Protection and management areas
Two areas of SCL are identified on the trigger map—protection areas and a management area.
There are two protection areas—one in Central Queensland and one in Southern Queensland. These are the areas under intense and imminent development pressure.
Land within the protection areas that meets the SCL criteria will be afforded the highest protection by the new legislation.
The management area includes many regions that are important to Queensland's cropping and horticultural industries and so has new development assessment obligations.
- Protection and management areas fact sheet (PDF, 157K)*
- Statewide protection and management areas map (PDF, 5.4M)*
- Central protection area map (PDF, 678K)*
- Southern protection area map (PDF, 4.7M)*
Mitigation sub-zones
The Strategic Cropping Land Regulation 2011 prescribes the rate for determining the mitigation value in each zone and sub-zone. To confirm which mitigation zone or sub-zone a proposed development is in, use the SCL online mapping tool.
Accessing digital data
To download the digital data of the SCL trigger map, zones, protection areas and mitigation sub-zones free of charge, please visit the Queensland Government Information Service (QGIS) website.
The trigger map digital data is only suitable for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS mapping software) and is accompanied by metadata.
The datasets can be obtained by searching the following terms under section 2 'Type of data' at the bottom of the QGIS web page:
Search terms – "strategic cropping land" (include the inverted commas)
Topic category – select the Any topic category
Data source – select Department of Environment and Resource Management
Three files should display. Select the file you want to download by checking Add to cart, then select the format of the data. Follow the prompts to access the data. Once you have completed the check-out prompts you will be emailed a link which will allow you to download the data free of charge.
Customers can also make a request from the QGIS website for the datasets to be provided on DVD; however, there is a charge for postage and handling.
For any additional digital data layers relating to SCL, please search the QGIS website in the first instance. The Product Delivery unit of Department of Environment and Resource Management can also facilitate the supply of additional digital information to clients and can be contacted via email at productdelivery@derm.qld.gov.au.
Requests for additional data layers may incur a fee.
Interactive resource and tenure maps
The Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) has added the SCL trigger map and information to its interactive resource and tenure maps (IRTM).
Please note: The IRTM maps relate to resource developments. The DERM online mapping tool uses property boundaries and is therefore more relevant for urban development and landholders, while resources developments have separate tenure boundaries and requirements that the IRTM incorporate.
Click on 'Connect to the interactive resource and tenure maps (IRTM)' or you can download the IRTM application.
Once you have the application open, go to 'Layers' then 'Restricted Lands' to locate the SCL protection areas and trigger areas.
Select and activate the ones you require for your DEEDI enquiry.
If you have any further enquiries regarding the IRTM system, please email irtmsupport@dme.qld.gov.au
* Requires Adobe Reader
Last updated 27 February 2012