Flood
Norman Creek runs along the western edge from Ekibin to Stones Corner and its low ground reaches into the streets around Ekibin Park, Thompson Estate and the flat blocks behind the Logan Road strip, which carried water in 2011 and 2022. The hospital ridge and the Logan Road side sit well above it. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, ask for the floor levels, and get an insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.
Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report
Noise
The Pacific Motorway and the busway run the length of the western edge, and you hear them two or three streets in on a still night. Logan Road carries the traffic and the buses, and the hospital adds shift-change traffic and an emergency centre that never closes. Type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight tracker as well, then stand in the backyard at 7am on a school day and again at 9pm.
Brisbane Airport flight path tool
Overlays and approvals
Traditional building character on the older streets, flood on the creek side, and higher density around the busway stations and the Stones Corner strip. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours have been approved to build, which matters near the strip and the hospital where units keep going up.
City Plan mappingDevelopment.i
Catchments
Five primary and five secondary catchments touch the suburb, and Greenslopes, Junction Park, Holland Park, Wellers Hill, Buranda, Brisbane South and Cavendish Road all run enrolment management plans. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.
Queensland EdMap
Photos: Stones Corner shops, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Greenslopes Private Hospital, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; Ekibin Park, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Logan Road side and the Coorparoo border, Gdmanning, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons; Buranda station, TravellerQLD, CC BY-SA 3.0; Greenslopes busway station, Nat965, CC0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Hanlon Park / Bur'uda, Gregwadley, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; Ekibin Park East and Annerley Football Club, BrisParks, used with permission; Thompson Estate Reserve, BrisParks, used with permission; Langlands Park and the pool, BrisbaneKids, used with permission; Stones Corner Library, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; Toohey Forest, BrisbaneKids, used with permission; Junction Park State School, State of Queensland (Department of Education), CC BY 4.0; Holland Park State School, courtesy of the school; Brisbane South State Secondary College, State of Queensland (Department of Education), CC BY 4.0; Holland Park State High School, State of Queensland (Department of Education), CC BY 4.0; Villanova College, Commander Keane, CC0; St Laurence's College, courtesy of the school; Coles, Greenslopes Mall, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; Westfield Garden City, Shiftchange, CC0; Greenslopes Private Hospital, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; A typical original house in Greenslopes, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; A renovated or lifted house, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0.