Warwick is the Southern Downs' main town, on the Condamine River at about 475 m, with rural country on every side.
Building a shed in Warwick
The Condamine's highest recorded flood at Warwick was 9.10 m on the McCahon Bridge gauge in February 1976, damaging over 100 homes, and the river reached 7.56 m as recently as May 2022. Southern Downs Regional Council is running flood studies for the Condamine and Dalrymple and Canal creeks, so current mapping should be checked for any site near them.
Warwick is drier than the coast, with mean annual rainfall of 674.8 mm, and winters are cold for Queensland. Farm and hay sheds here are often about keeping machinery and fodder dry and secure rather than about shade.
Southern Downs Regional Council publishes a Class 10a building application information sheet for garages, sheds and carports, and a separate sheet for reclassifying a shed as a dwelling, which is a different and much larger approval.