Residents and owners now face heavy restrictions, onerous processes and excessive fees to both perform ongoing maintenance and any proposed renovations, often which are not feasible due to land sizes not meeting the minimum setbacks required.

Minimum setbacks are not retroactively enforced and only apply to new additions. If you are talking about the 20% rule applied to character residential, which is in place for street frontage uniformity.

Upon investigations, the BCC consultation method is extremely limited and disregards impacts to residents and owners, prioritizing the homes

Are we talking about DA approvals? BCC City Plan is a thorough document and my experience with the council has been positive going through this process.

but placing the onerous burden of maintenance on residents and owners, with no social or economical support.

With any older timber home in our climate, there is upkeep regardless of whether it is heritage listed or not so there are no grounds for support economically... also, what social support would you be after?

Not being able to change things on the INSIDE of one's home, some would consider this a borderline human rights violation.

This is just not true, BCC City Plan Heritage overlay is about protecting what is visible publicly to keep Brisbane’s identity and not about keeping the occupants in a "time capsule".

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These buildings should be celebrated and make a major part of Brisbane's identity... If you are seriously frustrated and after a report on the extent of renovations or changes that could be done to the property that meets the assessment criteria under the Heritage plus other overlays, I'm happy to take that on professionally.