Licensing works here as it does across Queensland: a QBCC licence for building work over $3,300, held in the roof tiling class or the roof and wall cladding class, and a website that carries your licensed name, the number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act. Our Brisbane roofers page explains both classes with sources. What sets Moreton Bay apart is the weather on its coast, a planning change starting in November 2026, and the number of houses that live on tank water.
On Monday 24 November 2025 council described a very dangerous thunderstorm with large hailstones, destructive winds and heavy rain, and the state said the week's storms lifted roofs and brought down trees and power lines. Hardship assistance opened to 37 Moreton Bay localities, among them Banksia Beach, Bellara, Bongaree, Woorim and Welsby on Bribie Island, Sandstone Point, Ningi, Toorbul, Beachmere, Elimbah, Wamuran, Woodford, D'Aguilar, Mount Mee and Waraba, and was later extended to Griffin, Joyner and Stony Creek. When the Insurance Council declared a catastrophe, it noted insurers on the ground in communities including Bribie Island, Logan and Brisbane, with support expanding to further parts of Moreton Bay. Earlier that year, on 8 March, Tropical Cyclone Alfred had crossed Moreton Island and weakened as it moved over Bribie Island before reaching the mainland that night. That's two big events in less than nine months with Bribie Island in the path of both.
From 2 November 2026, Major Amendment No. 4 to the Moreton Bay planning scheme removes the exemption that kept land in the General residential, Township, Centre and Industry zones out of the designated bushfire prone area. The state planning minister approved it on 2 October and council adopted it on 28 October 2026, along with an updated Morayfield South structure plan. Council's consultation material says new homes and certain other buildings on land mapped as bushfire prone must then meet the National Construction Code's bushfire requirements. Queensland applies AS 3959-2018 to new homes and outbuildings, rebuilding and some repairs and additions, and for new homes in the most extreme fire risk areas the state's summary lists non-combustible roofing, sealed wall and roof joints to guard against embers, and metal rather than plastic gutters and downpipes. Council's consultation material also said a city-wide bushfire hazard risk assessment was under way and a state mapping update was pending, so the mapping may change again.
Plenty of rural blocks rely on rainwater. Council's rainwater tank guidance says houses on lots without town water have no minimum tank size, and as a precaution it advises against pesticide-treated timbers and lead flashing in roof catchments, against collecting from roof sections near wood-burner flues, and in favour of a first flush device. For a roofer working in the hills, a paragraph on catchment-safe materials is local knowledge that an owner on acreage will notice.
Growth keeps the work coming. Economic Development Queensland declared Waraba a priority development area on 2 August 2024 and plans about 25,000 homes there, on top of Morayfield South and the estates already built around North Lakes. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Moreton Bay businesses by phone and email; our Queensland clients include a dance school at Thorneside on Brisbane's bayside and a licensed Queensland plumber, and we haven't yet built a site for a Moreton Bay roofer. You send your licence details, the areas you cover and some roof photos, we send a draft link, and you pay once you approve it.