Council Approves 11-Storey Bilinga Tower

APPROVALS PHIL BARTSCH 27 OCT 22 The Urban Developer

Plans for an 11-storey apartment tower have been given the green light as a mid-rise development boom takes flight along a beachside strip opposite the Gold Coast Airport.

Golden Four Drive—stretching from Currumbin to Kirra—has become a hotspot for residential developers with a string of similar-sized proposals filed over the past couple of years.

The latest scheme to be approved by the Gold Coast City Council is for 81 two and three-bedroom apartments on a 2024sq m site site at 89-91 Golden Four Drive in Bilinga.

It was filed by an entity associated with Sydney-based solicitor Farshad Amirbeaggi in November last year.

Several submissions against the Turner-designed proposal were received from residents, who raised concerns about over-development along the strip as well as the tower’s proposed height and density, and privacy and traffic congestion.?

The approval of the development came after several amendments to the original plans.

These included decreased site coverage, increased setbacks, revised building design to break down its bulk and mass, a change to “a more coastal colour palette” and replacement of its rooftop communal area with a full level of apartments.

AUTHOR Phil?Bartsch The Urban Developer - Writer