A Gold Coast city councillor says he hopes a review of Queensland's planning laws will help the city with its regulations on adult stores.

A Gold Coast city councillor says he hopes a review of Queensland's planning laws will help the city with its regulations on adult stores.

Residents of Proserpine, in north Queensland, have expressed concerns about plans to open a store near a primary school and the Acting Premier has announced a review of state laws.

The chairman of the Gold Coast council's planning committee, Ted Shepherd, says his council is moving to amend its planning scheme to restrict the shops to fringe business areas.

"To get our planning scheme changed will probably take about 12 months of pretty hard administrative work to get an amendment through on the planning scheme, so if Paul Lucas can come through with legislative amendments, that'll make our job a heck of a lot easier, but more importantly it'll put the regulation through a lot quicker," he said.