Asbestos removal in Toowoomba

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Heritage and character homes: check before you strip cladding

Toowoomba Regional Council keeps a Register of Heritage and Neighbourhood Character Places, with overlays in the planning scheme. It also publishes guidance on heritage house styles, alterations and additions, exterior colours, fences, carports and garages in heritage and character precincts (Toowoomba Regional Council – Heritage and character considerations (opens in a new tab)).

Removing asbestos is a safety job, but what goes back on is a design decision. If your house is on the register or in a character overlay, replacing old fibro cladding, fences or roofing with something that looks different, or demolishing part of the house, may need council approval. Check the register before the removalist starts, and ask council's planning team if you're unsure.

Domestic disposal: the Wellcamp facility

• Where: Greater Toowoomba Waste Management Facility, 270 O'Mara Road, Wellcamp. It's the council facility that accepts domestic asbestos (council (opens in a new tab)).
• Limits: domestic loads only, up to 175 kg. No commercial asbestos.
• Call first: the national Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency's facility listing says prior notification is required. The council phone number is 131 872 (ASEA listing (opens in a new tab)).
• Fees: apply. ASEA's listing shows $317.40 per tonne plus a $453.50 administration fee for incorrectly presented asbestos. Check council's current fees and charges before you go, as they change.
• From 1 November 2026: trailers and tippers can't unload directly onto the tipping floor in the residual waste area. Asbestos goes to the bulk materials (green-signed) area (facility page (opens in a new tab)).

If you use a licensed removalist, they're a commercial customer. They must take the waste to a facility approved to receive commercial asbestos, so ask them where.

Is my Toowoomba house likely to have asbestos?

Age is the best rough guide. The QBCC says homes built before 1990 have a good chance of containing asbestos, and some built up to the 2003 ban may too (QBCC (opens in a new tab)). Only testing confirms it. See Asbestos testing.