rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/stop-high-trees-currumbin-valley-development?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-stop-high-trees-currumbin-valley-development' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Currumbin Valley Community Care https://actionnetwork.org/groups/cvcommunitycare https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/529/754/normal/IMG_0494.HEIC The future Gold Coast needs your help! Many Currumbin Valley residents are fighting to stop the imposition of a damaging, unsuitable and unnecessary proposed development from proceeding in the heart of Currumbin Valley. Neighbours surrounding the proposed development have been meeting regularly, providing formal and informal feedback to the developers, and seeking the advice and assistance of Councillors and City planning experts and consultants.   We need your help. Despite obvious problems with the proposal, the developers are resolute, and the community is anxious to leave the outcome just in the hands of Councils planning process. What is the High Trees Primary Development? Recent purchasers of 940 Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Valley have applied for a Material Change of Use to turn the quiet rural residential setting into a high end private school - High Trees Primary (HTP) You may have seen the NO placards outside 940, or the slick marketing on Insta and FB ads about it? HTP has recently lodged a Development Application (DA) application with Council. What's the problem? As the Gold Coast faces growing pains, many developers eye off "assets" like our Valleys as being "perfect" for their developments, with scant regard or respect for the impact on local residents, the nature and makeup of our community, zoning, environment, or the appropriateness of their ambitions. Currumbin Valley does not need another school. We already have a lovely primary school a little deeper in the Valley, that functions as a community hub. There is also another equally fantastic primary school at the other end of Currumbin Creek Road. Surrounding neighbours are deeply opposed, concerned at the dramatic changes envisaged, the negative impact on their daily lives and our cherished Valley, along with the traffic chaos that would inevitably arise at the proposed location - a high use entrance into a steep driveway, situated at the end of a series of tight, blind corners. Despite initially promising concerned residents a "light touch, low impact" development prioritising environmental concerns – the problematic nature of the site, combined with the ambitions of the developers, has very quickly escalated into a plan the chief engineer on the project  summed up as "no problems that can't be solved with bulldozers and concrete". Small pods as classrooms now double size, double story buildings, applying for height restrictions to be removed. The development will significantly alter the nature of Currumbin Valley, a cherished RURAL setting – quiet, green space, protected environment, country roads – we are the lungs, the green open spaces and a key part of the character of the Gold Coast that the city needs to preserved as the city grows. ACT NOW TO HELP US PROTECT OUR VALLEYS PS - parents of potential students should be aware that, despite taking expressions of interest for enrolment as early as next year,  the development DOES NOT have an approved DA, and there in NO application for approval from the Non-State School Accreditation Board (in other words it does not have school status, nor has an application been lodged). https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/947738a65dcab8fbf4d4b88f9bf99a8e85efacdc