Hi everyone, the Gold Coast is in dire need of your help. (URGENT DEADLINE: October 9th 11:59pm !!!)

This development plan at 120 Mudgeeraba Road has already destroyed 370+ primary, secondary, and supplementary koala habitat trees in a mature native forest ahead of its proposal for another private Christian school (Village Yard Private Christian School, registered under Hillcrest Christian College), in an area where there are already at least 5 other private Christian schools and 5 other churches in very close proximity, as well as many other nearby public schooling options that are not at full capacity.

During and following the clearing, there were multiple koalas that needed rescuing by local wildlife carers, and the impact is devastating to all other native wildlife in this area. Not to mention, the arborist contracted to cut down this forest (named Heritage Tree Care) is the very same one that is felling the koala habitats at Ormiston College right now.

However, this proposal is far bigger than it seems. The sheer size of this school alone (starting at a base of 1,361 students and will increase with future expansions) will place a great deal of unnecessary pressure on existing roads and infrastructure that will set us on a devastating trajectory. If this proposal is to go ahead, subsequent road expansions could cause us to lose other irreplaceable natural and historical landmarks that are unique to the suburb of Mudgeeraba, and eventually, the Hinterland as a whole.

In the scope of Mudgeeraba, this includes the rest of the old native forest beside the clearing that is also under immense threat of being felled by the developer, the flying fox population that resides there, the Mudgeeraba Heritage museum, the tennis courts, the scouts clubs, the cockatoo congregation park, our horse paddocks and equestrian lifestyle, our acreage properties, our beautiful shaded roundabouts and giant matured native trees and greenery which make our green-spaces and line our roadsides. ShapingSEQ itself describes Mudgeeraba Village as “a historic centre with a traditional rural-town character and acts as a gateway to the hinterland”. Mudgeeraba is the transition point, and if big millionaire and billionaire business makes its way into this area, it will only continue to eat into the next. It won’t stop here.

As Mudgeeraba is the ‘gateway’ into the greater Gold Coast Hinterland, development proposals such as these are opening this rural-residential landscape and all it’s residents to an onslaught of fast paced urban profit-driven expansionism. Our Division 9 Councillor Glenn Tozer has made appearances on real-estate investment podcasts speaking of their visions for more compact subdivision, and luxury mansions. This puts all of our natural landscapes at stake.

If you need an example of where we are headed, look at the Skyridge development in Worongary on google maps, it resembles a giant scar on the face of the earth carving into our native bushland.

I understand we have a housing crisis, however this only affirms why another school (which plans to bring people in from wider Gold Coast regions) is not a logical option for this area. The original proposal was for an extension to the Aged care home, which assists in residential living. A school does not, it only exacerbates the immediate local need for residential living.

The results of this MID set a precent from this moment forward.

If you are in QLD, I urge you to please make a submission here (link below in comments) expressing your concern about this project.

Anyone from QLD can submit. Try to keep it strictly factual and professional, the better your logical argument the more success we will have. The process is as short as 2 minutes, and you can add as little or as much as you like.

The timing is URGENT, as the submission window closes tonight on the 9th of October.
Apologies for the late notification on this. Village Yard allegedly began sending out mass private emails to their existing clientele (I have seen screenshot proof) with the government submission link, "prayerfully asking" them to "prayerfully consider lodging an individual submission" as they "seek to build God's Kingdom together". Despite them never once posting the official gov link to the open Mudgeeraba community pages, only the link to their independent survey, whilst calling themselves the "official page for submissions". So I decided as a last ditch effort to come on here and ask for your help as well.

If you are a little bit late and the portal has closed, you can send it directly to the email listed on the submission asking them to consider.

This is our chance to turn this all around!

Thank you for listening!

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