Tiny, Transportable and Temporary homes are here to stay - Queensland needs to catch up with other Australian States!

Queensland housing policy and planning legislation should be amended to acknowledge moveable dwellings (including Tiny Houses on Wheels) as a legitimate type of housing. Regulations should allow people to site a moveable dwelling on their own or someone else’s private property, singly or in groups.

Planning legislation in Queensland only deals with buildings or fixed structures. This leaves councils to regulate moveable dwellings through their local laws. These laws generally presume the moveable dwelling is a caravan or similar, used for short-term recreational use or as a temporary home whilst constructing a house. This results in a patchwork of regulations varying across councils from prohibiting to restricting the length of stay of the moveable dwelling on private property.

We are seeking the amendment of the planning legislation to include a definition for a moveable dwelling that acknowledges their long-term residential use as a ‘house’. The definition will ensure that all council planning schemes across Queensland have to address moveable dwellings as another type of housing. We are seeking appropriate fit-for-purpose regulation similar to that of granny flats (without the limitation of household or family relationships) that would allow the siting of a single moveable dwelling on private property. We are seeking appropriate fit-for-purpose regulation that would allow the siting of multiple moveable dwellings on one property through a body corporate type of arrangement with no or very minimal infrastructure charges.