The steps that apply across Queensland, Business Launchpad for the licences and permits your activity needs and Mentoring for Growth sessions once you've started trading, are explained on our page for new Brisbane businesses. Logan got the Launchpad early. Council's economic development office announced in April 2021 that it now covered food and beverage and residential construction businesses in the Logan council area, and by July that year the state government said more than 1,700 people had used the Launchpads in Logan and Townsville.
Council's own business help comes through the Logan Office of Economic Development (LOED) at 150 Wembley Road, Logan Central. Its starting-a-business page offers low- or no-cost support to small business owners based in the city, including confidential one-on-one meetings with a small business adviser, workshops on its events calendar and a monthly e-newsletter, and it sets out a ten-step guide that runs from planning and legal structure to insurance, finances and hiring. Before you lease, buy or fit out premises, it suggests confirming the use is allowed and asking for council's pre-lodgement advice, and it points to the Logan City Council Toolbox for requirements and fees by type of business. LOED is on 07 3412 4888.
Most people start from home. Council's residential projects page describes home-based businesses as dwellings first and businesses second: small-scale and run by the people who live there, with a home office, home-based childcare and a home-based food and drink business among its examples. No development approval is needed if the business meets the Logan Planning Scheme 2015, including all the acceptable outcomes of the codes that apply. Council says the business becomes code assessable once it has more than one non-resident employee or uses more than 50 square metres, and impact assessable, with public notification, beyond two non-resident employees, 100 square metres or any industrial activity. The planning enquiry tool in council's Logan PD Hub produces a report for your property and the home-based business activity, and food preparation needs a licence as well. If customers won't visit, the website only needs the suburbs you cover, not your street.
Figures LOED published in July 2026 counted 29,449 businesses in the city in June 2025. The most new businesses over the year were in transport, postal and warehousing, in construction, and in health care and social assistance, and sole traders and businesses with fewer than 20 staff made up 97.6% of the total. For a business like that, a single page often carries everything at the start: what you do, your area, your ABN, your licence if you hold one, and a way to get in touch. Our pages for transport and logistics businesses and removalists go further into what those customers look for.
We're an Adelaide team at Hutt St, and Logan businesses work with us by phone and email. None of the client sites below is in Logan; our Queensland clients include M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas and Queensland Dance & Performing Arts on Brisbane's bayside. You send your words, photos and suburbs, we send back a draft link to check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.