By working with the State Government, Traditional Custodians, developers, local residents and the broader community to formalise the new suburbs ahead of large-scale, on-the-ground development activity Council has:

• ensured authentic names for suburbs that residents connect with and proudly call home
• set a foundation for unique and meaningful place identities
• ensured addressing certainty for postal/delivery and emergency services
• protected existing community identities
• defined localities that reflect the future structure of the developed communities to minimise future addressing changes for residents.

Place naming is playing an increasing role in the recognition of Traditional Custodians and their history and culture.

Participation in the project has been open to all community members of the Moreton Bay Region including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live, work and play here.

Council and the State Government have engaged with the Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation, the registered Cultural Heritage Body for the Caboolture West area under the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 and their nominated linguistics experts. This led to the group endorsing:

• the use of the Kabi Kabi word “Waraba” as the name for the overall city and the suburb that will become the city centre.
• the proposed names of Lilywood, Wagtail Grove, Greenstone and Corymbia for other suburbs.

The role of a Cultural Heritage Body is to act as the first point of contact for cultural heritage matters and represent the Aboriginal parties (i.e. Native Title party or claimant) for an area.

The decision by the Minister for Resources on 14 April 2023 gave names to five new suburbs — Lilywood, Wagtail Grove, Greenstone, Corymbia, and Waraba – and alter the existing suburb boundaries of Upper Caboolture, Wamuran, Bellmere and Rocksburg. These changes are now in effect.

The Department of Resources has written to all affected property owners to inform them of the changes.

From May 2023, you should be able to check your address on the Queensland address and geocode checker available online.

If you have any questions about your address, please email qldplacenames@resources.qld.gov.au

The post code for suburbs of Waraba, Lilywood, Corymbia, Wagtail Grove and Greenstone is now 4513. You can check your postcode at https://auspost.com.au/postcode

As the city of Waraba grows further suburbs are expected to be added to the north within the balance of the Caboolture West Growth Area. There may also be some minor adjustments to further refine suburb boundaries. Any name or boundary changes will be subject to public consultation requirements so you will have an opportunity to share your views at that time.

Council is working with Traditional Custodians and the Department of Resources to investigate correcting the spelling of Wararba Creek and other places that share this name including Wararba Creek Conservation Park and Wararba Crescent, Caboolture.

The Caboolture West Place Naming project followed these steps:

1. Desk-top research to collect existing information on community values and Caboolture West local plan area
2. Community consultation to gather information on community values, preferred suburb boundaries and name ideas (using mainly focus groups, Name Your Place survey and direct engagement with Traditional Custodians)
3. Screening of name ideas against the Place Naming Criteria
4. Shortlisting of names by the Place Naming Committee guided by the Place Naming Criteria
5. Working with State Government officers to reviewed and verified shortlisted names and potential boundaries in preparation for Council consideration
6. Council considered and endorsed suggested names and boundaries
7. Council suggested the State Government formalise selected suburbs
8. State Government formalisation process in line with Place Names Act 1994 including a two-month public notification period
9. Minister for Resources made final decision on suburb names and boundaries
10. Notification of decision.

Locality and suburb are interchangeable terms for the official name that is used in an address. Locality is the term used by the State for the official place naming process under the Place Names Act 1994, however suburbs is the more common term in suburban areas.

Residential suburbs are made up of neighbourhoods that typically include a mix of housing and other non-residential uses that provide for the day-to-day needs of residents, such as schools, shops and parks.

Suburbs are an important part of our addresses. They support:

• map production and navigation
• population censuses and statistics
• mail and delivery services
• emergency services
• communication services.

The Caboolture West Local Plan area incorporates parts of five existing suburbs: Wamuran, Moodlu, Bellmere, Upper Caboolture and Rocksberg .

The boundaries of these existing suburbs need to be redefined to allow the new suburb boundaries to be established.

When a proposal to name a new suburb is being developed, the boundaries of the proposed suburb must be clearly defined and described on a plan.

The boundaries for these suburbs were initially drafted by Council to:

• align to property (cadastral) boundaries or easily distinguishable physical boundaries, such as breaks in residential development or zoning, open space areas, ridges, creeks, flood plains, major road centrelines or power easements
• be positioned to include areas of similar character and similar functional relationships in the same locality wherever possible
• contain no gaps or overlaps
• not create a suburb as an ‘island’ within another suburb
• not segment roads into different localities except where it is unavoidable for very long roads (this does not include dividing a road along the centreline where that road has been identified as a distinguishable barrier suitable for a boundary).

Council then held Suburb Boundary Focus Groups to gather information about the identity and values of the existing communities of Upper Caboolture, Bellmere and Rocksberg. This information was used to refine the boundaries Council then suggested to the State Government.

After the suggestion was made, Council Officers continued to work with the State Government to make minor adjustments to the boundaries as part of the State-led formalisation process. The proposed boundary changes can be view on the State Government's current proposals website.

Council consulted with a range of key stakeholders, including developers.

All stakeholders were again invited to have their say during the State Government led consultation period.

The Landowner Group (LOG) naming and branding project ran in parallel to the Caboolture West Place Naming Project. It was primarily a desk-top activity commissioned by landowners/developers with interests in southern parts of Caboolture West (referred to as the Landowners Group or LOG). Coordinated by Stockland Communities QLD, the LOG engaged the expertise of Hoyne, a consultancy specialising in place visioning, branding and marketing, to develop a place branding strategy and positioning, naming, and place brand concept and designs.

The LOG naming and branding project involved: a project commencement meeting, site visit and workshop to better understand the project context and objectives, informal correspondence and meetings, and presentations of project deliverables.

As a participant in the project, Council was able to share local knowledge and information on existing community values and preferences collected through Council’s Moreton Says program of region-wide surveys and the Name Your Place Survey. Council gained insights for the naming process, particularly relating to future communities and how they may connect with the place, from Hoyne’s expertise, national and international experience and project deliverables. Hoyne’s place making visioning work was captured in a thematic narrative describing the potential of the new city.

The LOG naming and branding project also generated seven ideas for suburb/city names with meanings for each. The LOG supported six of these names being fed into the Caboolture West Place Naming Project via the Name Your Place Survey. All six names were subject to the same evaluation as the other name ideas collected from the community.

The Caboolture West area is based on the Local Plan in the Moreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme. The State Government declared Caboolture West a Master Planned Area (MPA) under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 on 17 February 2012. The boundary of Caboolture West is primarily based on these determinations.