Currumbin is a unique part of the Gold Coast for its village feel and preserved forested cliffs and ridges. It is home to the world renowned Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary and the iconic Elephant Rock, which hosts the annual Anzac Day ceremony on 25 April each year.
Save Currumbin’s main mission is to provide the community with information, insight and a voice on high rise developments that threaten to damage or destroy the vegetated hills and ridges and ruin the village feel of this special suburb. This is particularly important along the Pacific Parade beachfront, which is enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of members of the public each year.
Proposed Development at 776 Pacific Parade
To everyone's disbelief, on the 11th of February, the Gold Coast City Council approved what appears to be a 7-storey high rise at 776 Pacific Parade by John Fuglsang Developments Pty Ltd - right opposite our iconic beach.
It got through as code assessable only because it was deemed to be a 3-storey building.
This building will dominate the skyline and obstruct a key part of our green ridgeline which gives our beloved Currumbin its unique sense of place.
IS THIS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE FROM THE BEACH EVERY DAY?
SAY NO TO 7-STOREY DEVELOPMENT
Say "IT'S NOT OKAY"
Keep Currumbin Green & Family Friendly
The main mission of Save Currumbin is to inform and empower the community to challenge DA's that try to over develop and to continue to lobby Council and State government to adopt policies, laws and administrative decisions that preserve the vegetated cliff and village feel of Currumbin. The time is now, do not let our beloved Currumbin suffer the same fate as Surfers, Palm Beach or Burleigh... Get involved now to help us save our green corridor to the see free from over development.
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Court rejects 'jarring' Gold Coast high-rise
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A judge has handed an Aussie council a humiliating smackdown after favouring neighbours and delivering it a shocking blow.Update on Court Case- 776 Pacific Pde Currumbin- PEC 631/2026
Our court case challenging the legality of the DA’s MCU/2022/588 and OTH/2025/79 as only Code assessable concluded on Tuesday 8 September 2026 in the Planning & Environment Court in Brisbane.
As Council had made a determination that it was only a 3-storey building, they assessed and approved the plans as Code.
The court now will decide whether our application to overturn those approvals on the basis that the building was more than 3-storeys and thus ought to have been Impact Assessable should succeed.
We are pleased with the way the case was prepared and run by Ben Job KC and his junior Susan Hedge instructed by our solicitor Michael Connor.
The Judge, Her Honour McDonnell DCJ, has reserved her decision. I
We thank everyone for your support.
We shall advise you once the judgment is handed down.
Patrick Dixon, Paul Stone, Peter Janssen
Directors
Save Currumbin Ltd
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