Steel frames and trusses for Highfields

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What to know about building in Highfields

From Toowoomba Regional Council, state agencies, the Bureau of Meteorology and the ABS. Each item links to its source.

• Toowoomba Regional Council unanimously adopted the Central Highfields Masterplan on 18 November 2025 to cater for the area's expected strong growth.

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• Highfields is identified as a major centre in the Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme's Centre zone.

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• The Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme's Bushfire Hazard overlay applies to bushfire-prone areas across the region.

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• In the 2021 Census, 96.2% of occupied dwellings in the suburb of Highfields were separate houses and 74.3% had four or more bedrooms, against 38.8% with four or more bedrooms across Queensland.

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• Toowoomba Regional Council's Growth Plan (2023) describes Highfields as sitting on a plateau high on the Great Dividing Range, with its centre about 12 km north of the Toowoomba City Centre.

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• The same Growth Plan anticipates growth of 11,000-12,800 people and 5,000-5,400 dwellings in the Highfields Future Growth Area to 2051.

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• The Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme's Highfields, Meringandan and Meringandan West Local Plan directs residential expansion predominantly to the north and north-west of the Highfields town centre and keeps Highfields a physically discrete settlement from Toowoomba.

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Frame design in Highfields

Wind classification

Set lot by lot in Highfields under AS 4055; send us your site's classification with the plans. · How wind classes work

Bushfire mapping

Toowoomba Regional Council maps bushfire hazard areas; steel framing is non-combustible, and your certifier sets the requirements.

Growth-area builds

Repeated house designs in Highfields's growth areas suit factory-made frames: each repeat is made to the same engineered drawings. · Steel framing for developers

Owner-builder? QBCC permit rules and what a kit includes