Sunshine Coast Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place on the Sunshine Coast and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that nobody's going to ask you for a short-term rental licence. Sunshine Coast Regional Council doesn't issue one, Queensland has never built a state register, and there's no permit number to paste into your listing. In New South Wales or Western Australia you can't legally advertise an unregistered property at all, so by national standards this is a soft landing.

Then again, no licence is not the same as no rules, and two things bite instead. Under the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014, a whole house let to holidaymakers stops being a "dwelling house" and becomes "short-term accommodation", which is impact assessable in the low density residential zone covering most of the region's suburban streets. Your rates notice changes as well. This guide covers the Sunshine Coast Regional Council area in Queensland, Australia, and not neighbouring Noosa Shire, which licenses short stay letting under a local law of its own.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly in 2026: which of the two legal shapes your plan fits, when you need a development permit and what it costs, the documents that go with it, the tax and rates that land on a holiday let, how hard the council pushes, and who to call. Every figure comes from the council's or the Queensland Government's own pages, checked in July 2026. Run the property through BNBCalc first, since the rates alone can move the answer.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business on Sunshine Coast

Those two catches both trace back to a single question, which is whether you're living in the property while your guests are there. Queensland planning law splits hosted and non-hosted letting into completely different categories, and almost everything else follows from which side of the line you land on.

Start with the definitions, because the chain is short and it decides your whole position. Schedule 1 of the planning scheme defines a dwelling house as "a residential use of premises for one household that contains a single dwelling", then lists what a dwelling house explicitly does not include. Short-term accommodation is on that list.

The same schedule defines a household as people who reside in the dwelling "with the common intention to live together on a long-term basis". A family who booked four nights in January has no such intention, so they aren't a household, so the property isn't being used as a dwelling house while they're in it.

What it's being used as instead is short-term accommodation, which Schedule 1 describes as "premises used to provide short-term accommodation for tourists or travellers for a temporary period of time (typically not exceeding three consecutive months)". The council says the same thing in plainer English in its own short-term accommodation information sheet: "Dwelling houses rented out as holiday houses also fall under this definition."

Where that use is allowed depends entirely on your zone, and the gap between zones is wide:

• Low density residential zone. Short-term accommodation isn't listed in Table 5.5.1 at all, so it drops into the catch-all row for "all other uses defined in Schedule 1", which is impact assessment. That means a full development application, public notification, and neighbours with appeal rights.
• Medium density residential zone. Table 5.5.2 lists short-term accommodation as code assessment, so you still apply, but nobody advertises the application and no neighbour can appeal it.
• Tourist accommodation zone. Table 5.5.4 also puts it at code assessment, which is why so much of the region's legitimate holiday-let stock sits in Mooloolaba, Alexandra Headland and Caloundra rather than in the leafy streets behind them.

The hosted route is a different animal entirely. A bed and breakfast, which the scheme defines as "the use of a premises being a dwelling house for short term accommodation to the travelling public", is treated as a home based business rather than as short-term accommodation.

Home based business is accepted development in both the low density and medium density residential zones, so there's no application, no fee and no notification, as long as you stay inside the code.

For a resident letting out a spare room, that one line does most of the work.

One more escape hatch is worth checking before you assume the worst. Section 260 of the Planning Act 2016 protects an existing lawful use: if a use was lawful immediately before a planning instrument changed, the change can't stop it, further regulate it or require it to be changed.

Council's own information sheet acknowledges that "dwelling houses established under former planning schemes (prior to 2014) may have existing use rights for short-term holiday letting", and says staff will advise owners on whether they have them. Do check this before you spend anything, since a long-running holiday house on the Coast may already be lawful without a permit.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Sunshine Coast

Since the zone and the hosting arrangement decide everything, it's worth being precise about what the council will and won't hand you at the end of it. There is no short-term rental licence on the Sunshine Coast, and I don't mean that it's hard to get. It doesn't exist.

The council's tourism and accommodation permits page lists exactly two things, an Operation of Accommodation Park Licence for caravan parks and camping grounds, and an Amplified Music Venue Permit for the Nambour entertainment precinct.

Neither touches Airbnb, and nothing in Local Laws 1 through 7 regulates short stay letting either.

What you may need instead is a development permit for a material change of use, and that's where the money goes. The council's Development Services fee register for 2026-27, effective 1 June 2026, sets a base fee of $5,110 for a short-term accommodation material change of use, plus $555 per bed, cabin or unit. Those are code assessment prices, as of July 2026.

The same register then multiplies them. It states that "the cost of an impact assessable application is set at a standard multiplier of 1.5 above the code assessable fee". So a single holiday house in a low density street lands somewhere north of $8,000 in council fees alone, before a planner or a town planning report costs you a cent.

There's a small sting in that register too, and it looks deliberate. Applications for a material change of use inside an existing building normally get a 25% discount, "except for short-term accommodation in the same dwelling unit/s". Converting a house you already own is the one conversion the council declined to make cheaper.

The hosted path costs nothing, provided you meet the acceptable outcomes in the Home based business code. Read these carefully, because accepted development only stays accepted while every one of them holds:

• A resident of the dwelling conducts the business, and the bed and breakfast is conducted within the dwelling house itself.
• At least one bedroom is excluded from guest use, the maximum number of guest bedrooms is 3, and the maximum number of guests at any one time is 6.
• Guests stay no more than 14 consecutive nights.
• Each guest bedroom must be capable of being enclosed, and a separate bathroom and toilet is provided inside the house for the exclusive use of guests.
• One on-site car parking space per guest bedroom, on top of the spaces the dwelling house already needs. Tandem parking is fine as long as no car overhangs the road reserve.
• Noise stays within background plus 5 dB(A) at the boundary between 8am and 6pm, only one home based business runs on the premises, and any sign is limited to 0.3 square metres in an urban zone.

Party houses sit in a strange in-between spot right now. Section 276 of the Planning Act 2016 lets a council declare its whole area a "party house restriction area", which then makes running a party house assessable development no matter what the residential approval says. A party house means a dwelling let for a fee where guests regularly hold parties, the stay is under 10 days, and the owner isn't there.

Sunshine Coast Council hasn't opted in yet, and the phrase appears nowhere in Schedule 1 of the current scheme. Its proposed new planning scheme would opt the entire local government area in.

On timing, I'd rather tell you what I couldn't find than guess. Council's own development application process page doesn't publish statutory day counts for confirmation, information requests, notification or decision, so treat anyone quoting you a precise week count with suspicion and ask the assessment team directly.

Required Documents for Sunshine Coast Short-Term Rentals

Assuming you've worked out that you do need a permit, there's then a paperwork stage, and it splits into two piles with only the first going to the council. Getting the second pile wrong is what turns a legal listing into an expensive one.

The application pile follows the council's lodgement rules, which are fussier about file handling than most people expect. You'll need a completed eDevelopment application form, which sets the fee and confirms you'll correspond electronically, plus your proposal plans and a planning report addressing the relevant codes.

Everything goes in as PDFs created by software rather than scanned, one document per file, unlocked, and named in plain English like "Planning Report.pdf". Lodge through the MyCouncil portal with a registered business account, or by email in batches under 15MB, or hand in two hard copies.

Where the use is impact assessable, public notification adds a notice to the owners of all adjoining land, a notice in a local newspaper and a sign on the land itself. Keep in mind that submissions aren't confidential: the Planning Act 2016 requires council to publish them along with the submitter's personal details, and anyone who makes a properly made submission gets appeal rights if they dislike the decision.

Your neighbours become parties to your application, which is a very different experience from filing a form.

The second pile never reaches the council at all, yet it carries the harder penalties:

• A pool safety certificate, if there's a pool. Under section 246ATG of the Building Act 1975, an owner "must not enter into an accommodation agreement" for the premises unless a certificate is in effect for each non-shared regulated pool, with a maximum penalty of 165 penalty units. An accommodation agreement includes any agreement giving someone a right to occupy premises for money, so a two-night booking counts. QBCC, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, certifies non-shared pools for two years and shared pools for one.
• Interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms to Australian Standard 3786-2014. Queensland already requires them in every leased dwelling, and the state's own deadline extends the rule to all existing private homes, townhouses and units on 1 January 2027. Don't forget that a holiday house is already leased under this rule every time a guest checks in.
• Your community management statement and by-laws, if the property is a unit. You're checking for restrictions on the use rather than for permission, and section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 limits how far those by-laws can reach.
• Written advice from the council, at $385 for a dwelling house or $680 for other uses, where you want confirmation in writing that a use is accepted development or that existing use rights apply. A $550 pre-purchase meeting does the same job at the due-diligence stage, before you're committed to the property.

Nothing in Queensland law obliges you to hold public liability insurance for a short-term let, so I'd treat that as a commercial decision rather than a compliance one. Most bodies corporate and most mortgage conditions will have a view regardless.

Sunshine Coast Short-Term Rental Taxes

Once the documents are in order and you're able to take bookings, the running costs then start, and this is where holding a holiday house on the Coast starts to cost real money. There's no bed tax, no tourist levy and no state short-stay levy in Queensland, which sounds like a win. The council collects its share through your rates instead.

Charge	Rate in 2026-27	Collected by
Differential general rate, category 16T (house, transitory accommodation, up to $1,004,400 RV)	0.7760 cents in the dollar, $4,253 minimum	Sunshine Coast Council
Differential general rate, category 16 (house, not principal residence)	0.3158 cents in the dollar, $2,125 minimum	Sunshine Coast Council
Differential general rate, category 6 (ordinary residential)	0.2775 cents in the dollar, $1,771 minimum	Sunshine Coast Council
Land tax (individuals, above $600,000 taxable value)	$500 plus 1 cent per $1 over $600,000	Queensland Revenue Office
GST on residential rent	Input taxed, so 0%	Australian Taxation Office
Income tax on net rental income	Your marginal rate	Australian Taxation Office

Sit with the top three rows for a second.

The council's 2026-27 Revenue Statement charges a holiday-let house nearly two and a half times the cents-in-the-dollar rate of an identical investment house next door on a long lease, and double the minimum. Units follow the same pattern: low-rise units run 0.4343 as an owner's home, 0.5194 as an ordinary investment, and 1.2990 as transitory accommodation, while high-rise units go from 0.9002 to 0.9891 to 2.0584.

The definition of transitory accommodation is the part to read closely, because it doesn't care whether you have a permit. It captures property "offered or available, or used, for rental in a temporary manner, generally associated with, but not limited to, holiday rental letting, typically for a rental period or rental periods of less than 42 consecutive days at any one time".

The Revenue Statement then adds the enforcement mechanism in a bracket: listings or advertising "on publicly available websites and/or with real estate agents, will constitute evidence of the property being offered or available". A live Airbnb page is enough. You don't have to take a single booking.

Three carve-outs pull you back out of the category, and each one is narrow:

• A room let inside your principal place of residence while you're living there. Hosted letting, again, is treated differently from the ground up.
• A documented tenancy agreement under the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 for 42 consecutive days or more.
• Exclusive personal use of 28 days or more in a six-month rating period, claimed on the council's Transitory Accommodation objection form. From rates notices issued after 1 July 2026, the council accepts one form per six-month period, and the adjustment runs only from the start of that period.

For multi-dwelling properties there's a predominant use test: if 50% or more of the dwellings are offered, available or used as transitory accommodation, the whole thing is categorised that way.

Council rates aside, the state's charge is land tax, assessed by the Queensland Revenue Office on the unimproved value of your land at midnight on 30 June. Individuals become liable at $600,000 or more, where the tax starts at $500 plus 1 cent per dollar over the threshold and steps up to 1.65 cents past $1 million.

Your principal place of residence is exempt, so hosted letting inside your own home generally leaves the exemption intact while a dedicated holiday house does not.

Federal tax is straightforward by comparison, though the visibility has changed. The ATO's guidance on renting out all or part of your home says you don't pay GST on residential rent, since it's input taxed, and you only consider GST if you're running commercial residential premises like a boarding house. The flip side is that you can't claim GST credits on cleaning, commission or repairs either.

All the income goes in your return, deductions are apportioned to the part of the property and the part of the year actually let, and capital gains tax follows you when you sell.

And the ATO can see all of it now. Under the Sharing Economy Reporting Regime, or SERR, platforms have reported short-term accommodation transactions since 1 July 2023, twice a year, by 31 January and 31 July. Airbnb and Stayz hand over what you earned before you lodge anything.

Australia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Rates and reporting are where Queensland does its regulating, and stepping back to the national picture explains why. Australia has no federal short-term rental law whatsoever. Each state decides, and Queensland decided to leave it to councils.

That wasn't for lack of a proposal. The Queensland Government commissioned the University of Queensland to review how short-term rental accommodation affects housing. The resulting report recommended "a centralised registration system and a code of conduct to support local governments to monitor short-term rental activity", while explicitly rejecting statewide restrictions.

Going through the department's page in July 2026, that recommendation is still sitting there as a recommendation, unchanged since the page was last updated in August 2023. The review's own framing was that "local councils can regulate STRA under their local planning laws", and it noted the trend that produced your rates bill: Brisbane, Noosa and Sunshine Coast councils all introducing a transitory accommodation rate category.

Four pieces of Queensland law do apply to you directly, whatever your council does:

• Offences and penalties. Sections 163 and 165 of the Planning Act 2016 make it an offence to carry out assessable development without a permit, or to use premises unlawfully, each carrying a maximum of 4,500 penalty units. The Queensland Government's penalty unit page put the value at $166.90 from 1 July 2025, and it's indexed most years, so treat the dollar figure as a floor rather than a fixed number.
• Bodies corporate can't ban you. Section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 says that "if a lot may lawfully be used for residential purposes, the by-laws can not restrict the type of residential use". Queensland unit owners have far more freedom here than their Victorian or New South Wales counterparts. By-laws can still regulate noise, parking, keys and common property, which is where most real disputes actually happen.
• Pool safety and smoke alarms, covered above, are state obligations enforced independently of any planning approval.
• Party house powers exist under section 276 of the Planning Act 2016 but only bite once a council opts in, which Sunshine Coast hasn't done yet.

Cross the border and the contrast is stark, so be aware that advice written for another state will mislead you here. Victoria charges a short stay levy of 7.5% of the total booking fee on stays under 28 consecutive days, in force since 1 January 2025, with the owner's principal place of residence exempt.

New South Wales runs an STRA Register at $65 to register and $25 a year to renew, caps non-hosted letting at 180 days across Greater Sydney and parts of the regions, cuts Byron Shire to 60 days, and enforces a mandatory code of conduct. Western Australia requires every hosted and un-hosted property to sit on its STRA Register under the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Act 2024.

Even inside Queensland the local variation is severe. Noosa Shire, a twenty-minute drive from Coolum, adopted its Short Stay Letting and Home Hosted Accommodation Local Law on 21 October 2021 and commenced it on 1 February 2022, and it requires an approval for every existing and new short stay letting property, renewed annually. Same state, same coastline, completely different obligations.

Does Sunshine Coast Strictly Enforce STR Rules? Is Sunshine Coast Airbnb friendly?

Yes on the friendliness, mostly, though the enforcement question splits into two answers because the council runs two very different systems.

Planning enforcement is reactive and complaint-driven, and the council says so itself. Its compliance policy page describes a reactive approach built on "investigating reports about unlawful activities" and states that "Council prefers to work with the owner to rectify matters before considering other compliance options".

Short-term accommodation is named directly on the development compliance page as an example of an unlawful use of private property without a development permit, so this is a category officers know and act on. I could not find any published STR enforcement statistics for the region, though, so I won't pretend to know the hit rate.

Rates enforcement is the opposite: automatic, and effectively self-executing. Because a public listing is evidence under the Revenue Statement, moving a property into 16T requires no inspection, no complaint and no proof that a booking ever happened.

That's the mechanism that catches almost everyone. The council doesn't chase you, it charges you.

Where enforcement does get sharp is noise. Council handles nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1994, and the process asks a lot of the complainant. An officer has to attend while the noise is happening and confirm it's clearly audible from inside the affected building. For some noise types the neighbour keeps a nuisance diary for around 21 days first.

Watch out for what that means in practice, though. A neighbour who's willing to do 21 days of paperwork about your guests is also willing to make a submission on your development application, and impact assessable notification hands them appeal rights to the Planning and Environment Court.

The bigger risk in 2026 isn't the current rules at all. It's the proposed planning scheme, consulted between 15 July and 19 September 2025, which drew around 4,600 formal submissions and whose review is "expected to continue well into 2026".

Council's own information sheet on the proposal sets out three new definitions: occasional principal place of residence letting (your own home, no more than 4 occurrences and no more than 60 nights a calendar year, generally not needing approval), home-hosted accommodation, and non-hosted holiday house.

It also proposes a Short-Term Accommodation Code requiring "continuous (24 hour) management for guest enquiries and requests, as well as neighbour complaints", makes a change of use inside a building holding permanent residents impact assessable, and opts the whole region into the party house provisions.

None of that is law yet, so don't plan around it. A proposed scheme in review is not a rule. Remember that the council's information sheet also says "the planning scheme can only regulate NEW proposals for short-term accommodation", which is a meaningful comfort for anyone already operating lawfully, and a meaningful warning for anyone thinking about starting after the new scheme lands.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Sunshine Coast

Given how much rides on your zone and your hosting arrangement, the order below saves the most money at the top, so working through it in sequence matters more than it looks.

1. Find your zone before anything else. The council's interactive planning scheme mapping shows whether you're in low density residential, medium density residential or tourist accommodation. That single answer is the difference between impact assessment and code assessment.
2. Decide honestly whether you'll be hosted or non-hosted. Living in the house during stays puts you in the bed and breakfast pathway, which needs no application at all. An empty house with a lockbox does not.
3. Check for existing use rights. If the house has been holiday let since before 2014, section 260 of the Planning Act 2016 may already protect it. Ask the council, and consider paying $680 for written advice so you have it on paper.
4. Price the application before you commit. A short-term accommodation material change of use starts at $5,110 plus $555 per bed, cabin or unit, multiplied by 1.5 if you're impact assessable, and none of that includes a town planner.
5. If you're hosted, build the operation to the code. Three guest bedrooms maximum, six guests maximum, one bedroom kept out of guest use, a separate guest bathroom, 14 consecutive nights maximum, and one parking space per guest bedroom on site.
6. Sort the safety compliance. Pool safety certificate in effect before the first booking, interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms in place well before the 1 January 2027 deadline.
7. Read your by-laws if it's a unit. A body corporate can't ban short-term letting outright, but it can and will regulate noise, parking and common property.
8. Budget the rates from day one. Assume the transitory accommodation category applies the moment the listing goes live, and make sure the extra $2,000 or more a year sits in your model in BNBCalc rather than arriving as a surprise in August.
9. Register your tax position. Declare the income, apportion deductions honestly, and remember the platforms already report your earnings to the ATO twice a year.

Before you sign anything, sanity-check the revenue side against what comparable properties actually earn: the Sunshine Coast market data in BNBCalc Markets shows nightly rates and occupancy by suburb, which is the number that has to clear a $4,253 minimum rates bill.

Who to Contact in Sunshine Coast about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Most of the steps above end in a phone call, and knowing which team owns the question saves a genuinely irritating amount of time.

Sunshine Coast Regional Council, general and development

The council handles zoning, development applications, compliance and rates.

• Phone: (07) 5475 7272 or 1300 007 272, option 2 for planning, building and plumbing. The line runs 24/7 but takes emergencies only outside business hours.
• Hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays
• Email: [email protected]
• Post: Locked Bag 72, Sunshine Coast Mail Centre QLD 4560
• Service centres, 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday: 1 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra; 54 First Avenue, Maroochydore; corner Currie and Bury Streets, Nambour. Bring your forms filled in.

The new planning scheme team

Questions about the proposed definitions, the Short-Term Accommodation Code or the party house proposal go to the plan-making team rather than to assessment.

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: 07 5409 0570

Checking what's already approved

Council's Development.i portal lets you search lodged and decided applications by address, which is the fastest way to see whether a property you're buying already holds a short-term accommodation approval, or whether a neighbour's application is out for notification.

State and federal agencies

• Queensland Revenue Office for land tax: qro.qld.gov.au, with an online land tax estimator and the home exemption tester
• Queensland Building and Construction Commission for pool safety certificates and inspector searches: qbcc.qld.gov.au
• Australian Taxation Office for income, deductions, CGT and the reporting regime: ato.gov.au
• Queensland Police, on 000 for an emergency or 131 444 for Policelink, since guest behaviour and parties are a police matter rather than a council one

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Sunshine Coast on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those agency lists tell you who decides things. Local sentiment tells you what it feels like on the receiving end, though I should be upfront about the sourcing. Reddit blocks automated access, and its platform terms don't permit the commercial use these guides would need, so nothing below is a quote from a thread I read. I also found no substantive Bigger Pockets discussion of the Australian market. What follows is my read of the documented public record instead, and do weigh it accordingly.

• The rates change is what owners argue about, not the planning rules. Council's own framing in the 2025-26 budget release was that it was "adjusting the transitory accommodation rate category to encourage more houses back into the long-term rental market", with Mayor Rosanna Natoli saying "we need more homes for locals". Owners hear a policy designed to make their business worse, because that's what it is designed to do.
• Unit owners feel singled out and the council partly agreed. The same release conceded that "many unit owners, particularly in hotel precincts, cannot rent to long-term tenants", and softened the increase for units accordingly. High-rise units still sit at more than double the ordinary investment rate.
• Amenity complaints are real and documented. The council's own consultation information sheet states that "community feedback has identified several issues in relation to some short-term accommodation uses within residential areas, including impacts on residential amenity (such as noise, traffic/on-street carparking) and impacts on the availability of dwellings for permanent rental". Around 4,600 formal submissions came back on the proposed scheme.
• The evidence base is more sympathetic than the politics. The University of Queensland's review found that "short-term rentals have a limited impact on rental affordability" and pointed at dwelling stock instead, then explicitly recommended against statewide restrictions. Investors quote that report a lot. Councils have kept raising rates anyway.

Take the last point seriously if you're modelling a purchase. The regulatory risk on the Sunshine Coast isn't a ban, and it probably never will be. It's a rate category that can be repriced in any June budget without a single change to planning law, and without you getting a vote.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a licence to run an Airbnb on the Sunshine Coast in 2026?

No. Sunshine Coast Regional Council issues no short-term rental licence, permit or registration, and Queensland has no state register either. What you may need is a development permit for a material change of use, which depends on your zone and on whether you live in the property during stays. A hosted bed and breakfast is accepted development in residential zones. A whole house let while you're away is impact assessable in the low density residential zone.

How much do council rates increase for a Sunshine Coast holiday rental?

Substantially. In 2026-27 a house categorised as transitory accommodation up to $1,004,400 rateable value pays 0.7760 cents in the dollar, with a minimum general rate of $4,253. The equivalent investment house on a long lease pays 0.3158 cents and a $2,125 minimum, and a standard residential property pays 0.2775 cents and $1,771. Low-rise units go from 0.5194 to 1.2990 cents, and high-rise units from 0.9891 to 2.0584 cents.

What counts as transitory accommodation for Sunshine Coast rates?

Property offered, available or used for rental in a temporary manner, typically for periods of less than 42 consecutive days at a time. A public listing on Airbnb, Vrbo or with an agent is itself treated as evidence that the property is offered, so no booking is required. A room let inside your own principal place of residence while you live there is excluded, as is a documented tenancy of 42 days or more.

Can a Queensland body corporate ban short-term letting in my unit?

Not outright. Section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 provides that where a lot may lawfully be used for residential purposes, the by-laws cannot restrict the type of residential use. That protection is stronger than in most Australian states. By-laws can still regulate noise, parking, rubbish, keys and use of common property, and those rules are enforceable, so the practical limits on a unit come from behaviour management rather than from a prohibition.

How many guests can a hosted Sunshine Coast bed and breakfast take?

Six at any one time, across a maximum of three guest bedrooms, under the Home based business code in the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014. At least one bedroom must be kept out of guest use, a separate bathroom and toilet must be provided inside the house for guests only, and one on-site car parking space is required per guest bedroom on top of the dwelling's own spaces. Guests may stay no more than 14 consecutive nights.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.