Underpinning in Enoggera
Enoggera has the largest share of landslide overlay mapping of the seven suburbs on this site, and Council says overlays can change how much digging is allowed without planning approval. Queensland's geological survey puts most of our sample points on the Bunya Phyllite, a slate and phyllite unit, and not on the granite that carries the suburb's name.
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Underpinning around Enoggera
The survey's five sample points put four on the Bunya Phyllite, described as slate, phyllite, arenite and metabasalt of Devonian to Carboniferous age. The fifth, on the western side, came back as the Enoggera Granite. That unit lies mostly under The Gap in our samples, so nothing about Enoggera's ground can be read from the suburb's name.
A modest part of the suburb is mapped in the landslide overlay. The map shows where Council has drawn a hazard; it does not say whether a particular house is affected.
Permits and Brisbane City Council rules
Up to one vertical metre of filling or excavation needs no planning approval, Council's page says, unless the site is in a neighbourhood plan area or affected by an overlay, and some of those change the amount. With landslide mapping over part of Enoggera, that exception is the one to check first. Above one vertical metre for a building or structure, Council points to a licensed building certifier.
Source: Brisbane City Council, Filling and excavation page and Filling and excavation guideline (May 2026); City Plan 2014 landslide overlay layer, last modified 29 May 2024. — confirm current requirements with Brisbane City Council.
Our Enoggera service area
An Enoggera enquiry is referred on to an independent provider, who gets in touch to look at the house.
See all Underpinning in Brisbane. We also work in The Gap, which holds the granite that takes Enoggera's name.
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