Brisbane City Council has voted for a ban on townhouses in low-density suburbs, one of a host of changes to the city's planning legislation.
The law changes were brought through council in a set of reforms that city planning chairman Matthew Bourke said were some of the biggest in a decade.
Council's controversial townhouse ban was one of many legislative changes to go through the chamber on Tuesday.
The ban stops the amalgamation of numerous lots into more than 3000-square-metre lots that could then have townhouses constructed on them in low-density zoned suburbs.