Jurisdiction of Brisbane.

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Dear Brisbane City Council,

If possible, please treat this as an administrative or informal request.

Otherwise, please consider this a request under the FOI Act.

[1]Can you please provide information for the land area jurisdiction of Brisbane.

[2] As per the City of Brisbane Act,[2] section 3/5 ,page15-16 referring to boundaries and maps, please provide LGB 1 edition 2, sheet 1 (including sheets 2 to 27).

No personal information is necessary.

I ask that all fees in relation to this request be waived because the release of the documents is in the public interest.

Yours faithfully,

Dave

BrisbaneRTI, Brisbane City Council

Dear Dave,

Thank you for your email query.

I am not sure what specific sections of the City Of Brisbane Act 2010 you are referring to here is a link to the current version that may assist in advising me of the section:
https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/...

If you are after information about the land area of the Brisbane City Council Local Government Area, one resource would be the Council's Annual Report https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/about-co... . Page 9 says that the total land area is 1342.7 square kms.

Local Government Boundary maps for the entire Council area, as well as the 26 individual wards, are publicly available at:
https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/about-co... - click on the Ward maps option. Then select the "Select a council district" tab and from the drop down menu select "Brisbane". You can then zoom in our out to work out the exact boundaries for the entire Brisbane area. If you would like the boundary for a particular ward, for example Bracken Ridge, select "Brisbane Bracken Ridge" from the drop down menu.

To print one of these maps, select the "View PDF" button towards the top of screen. This will give you a pdf map that you can print or save to your computer.

Regards,

David Simons
Right to Information and Information Privacy Officer | Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance | BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL
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Brisbane Square | Level 23, 266 George Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000
Phone: +61-7-3403 6786 | Fax 07 3334 0043
Email: [email address]
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Dear BrisbaneRTI,

Appreciate the prompt response.

Let me clarify the question:
[1] The jurisdiction of Brisbane.

This request is not related to council jurisdiction or the City of Brisbane, instead Brisbane as a land area.

Note this request has been referred from Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet for the decision making.

Yours sincerely,

Dave

BrisbaneRTI, Brisbane City Council

Dear Dave,

Are you able to provide me with any more contextual information as to the best of my knowledge, "Brisbane" has only two areas:
(1) the suburb of Brisbane City, the boundaries of which can be found in a UBD/refidex and is essentially the inner city Central Business District; and more broadly -
(2) the local government area falling under the jurisdiction of the Brisbane City Council, which is covered by the maps and information I referred you to last week.

The State Government may have regions such as Brisbane North etc for the purposes of providing their services eg Health or Education, but they are not regions that Council can provide you with assistance on in terms of their definition, scope and jurisdiction as such regions are not utilised by Brisbane City Council.

"Brisbane", as far as Council is concerned, as a land area is the area making up the City of Brisbane, and falling under the jurisdiction of the Brisbane City Council.

Regards,

David Simons
Right to Information and Information Privacy Officer | Council and Committee Liaison Office City Administration and Governance | BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL ...........................................................................................................
Brisbane Square | Level 23, 266 George Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000
Phone: +61-7-3403 6786 | Fax 07 3334 0043
Email: [email address] ...........................................................................................................

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