118 Old Burleigh Road, Broadbeach QLD 4218

The positive aspect of this development is catering for 33 units with 67 car parks. I would be wary as a buyer of the car stacking system as I have heard Elysium has issues.
37 floors is way too high for the area and not suited to the surrounding Broadbeach. The shadows cast will negatively impact a wide range of buildings around it and will create beach shadows. Such beach shadows are already making areas of Surfers Paradise less desirable for beach goers. I am sad to have our beautiful beach assets covered in shade and I have heard tourists passing comment that indicate they enjoyed the old Gold Coast better - from the comments I heard I'm sure they will look for new places to holiday in the future. The new Surfers Meriton is a good looking building but robs a large portion of beach of the natural sunshine in the early afternoon. This proposed building for 118 Old Burleigh Rd Broadbeach, at 37 storeys high, is almost twice the height of buildings around it. La Grande is already strangled and starved of sun since the building of Eclipse and the Beachhouse. I doubt the new owners of the 3 million dollar apartments in the Beachhouse would be happy with a building towering twice their height and cutting their sun and views.
I find it interesting that the developers use photos from Positano. Positano is on a hill, everyone shares views and sun and no building is a skyscraper like this. In fact, I don't think any of the buildings permitted in Positano are higher than the 3 storey walk ups favoured in the streets around Broadbeach. If necessary, I believe a building half it's height would fit with the neighbourhood and be fair to existing buildings. Even better for the bigger picture and forward planning of Broadbeach, smarter development like Positano would be far more sustainable - Positano is a major tourist area that is keeping is character and not destroying the appeal with overdevelopment. This is not what is being witnessed currently on the Gold Coast. Development guidelines need an urgent review.

What a totally inappropriate development for this size block. Another example of GCCC ruining Broadbeach. No trees, no gardens, just concrete and wind tunnels. When will this rubbish stop?

My concerns as owner of a unit on the western side of Boulevard Towers
are as follows:
1. The proposed development is a 37 stories 129.7m high tower on a 690m2 block on the corner of Old Burleigh Rd and Australia Avenue. Such a large tower squeezed into such a small, narrow block is inappropriate and would totally dominate the adjacent buildings. By comparison, Boulevard Towers is 16 stories and 46.8m high.

2. The application for the Material Change of Use (MCU/2022/335) nominates the proposal as being Code Assessed, thus not requiring public consultation. However, the density of one bedroom per 6.9 m2 of site area for their 100 bedroom tower is non-compliant, being nearly twice that required by Council’s limit of one bedroom per 13 m2. To be compliant, the proposed 37 stories would have to be reduced to 21 stories. However, even if reduced to 21 stories, the building would still unacceptably tower over Boulevard Towers by being 34.9m. taller than it.

3. The eastern end of the proposed tower is only 17m from Boulevard Towers bedrooms, with their kitchen/dining rooms and balconies having 4 lots of stacker doors that open-up the entire east end of each unit. The absence of any screening results in there being no privacy from people looking at them from Boulevard Towers bedroom windows, and conversely this gives them a direct, close-up view into Boulevard Towers bedrooms and ensuites.

4. The proposal is to have 3 levels of basement for parking the residents’ cars using a Wöhr Multipacker 740 type automated parking system providing 61 underground residential car parks. A separate Wohr Parklift 411/6 stacker is to be provided on the ground floor for 4 residents’ vehicles (presumably to be allocated to the penthouse) next to a further 2 ground level visitor parking spaces. This provides a total of 67 car spaces.

The proposed basement parking arrangement shown on Plans DA 2002, 3 and 4 and DA 3002 has 1 row of cars on the south side of the aisle and 3 rows on the north side, with no facility for accessing the non-adjacent cars by either lifting them over other cars or juggling using spare spaces.

The consequences of this are likely to be that:
• Instead of the total basement depth being 10.45m below ground level as shown on DA 3002, it will have to be lowered by an additional 6m or more to provide sufficient height for cars to be raised above adjacent rows. Alternatively, the number of car parks will have to be reduced to provide empty spaces for juggling cars. Either option will substantially increase the time for parking and retrieving cars.
• The inconvenience and time taken using such a complex stacker system will result in residents and visitors using Australia Avenue and Old Burleigh Rd for their short term parking needs, and even inconvenience us by using the adjacent Boulevard Towers visitors car park.
• Excavation for the construction of their 3 levels of basement would undercut the immediately adjacent basement foundations of Boulevard Towers by a depth of more than 10m, putting Boulevard Towers’ building at risk of serious damage.

Trees, trees trees!!!!!! All these new high rises crammed on every square inch leaves no room for trees and gardens. New buildings need more landscaping. Also car parking in this area is already ridiculous. New buildings with three bedrooms and one car park in some cases. Too close to other buildings impacting privacy. More shadows on the beach. There seems to be no rules or planning. Surely buildings should be spaced out a bit. Developers seem to be able to do whatever they want. Please don’t spoil Broadbeach.

Has anyone questioned how electric cars are going to be charged while in the stackers?
With the transition to electric cars, it is expected that within 10 years almost all new cars are going to be electric and owners are going to want to charge their batteries while parked overnight in the basement.
The stacker system is fully automated and the cars are going to be stacked in racks where they are inaccessible to the owners.
So how are electric cars going to be physically connected and disconnected from the building's charging system while in the racks, especially when there is no standardised charging plug location, size or type?
Also is the building electrical system going to be required to be designed to provide for this load?