Gold Coast development: Revamped development application for Main Beach tower

The developer behind a controversial luxury high-rise has revamped its design - making it even bigger than originally planned.

THE developer behind a controversial luxury high-rise has revamped its design - making it even bigger than originally planned.

Ignite Projects has submitted a revised development application for its proposed Main Beach tower, The Monaco, with a new look and even more features.

Artist impression of the proposed Monaco tower in Main Beach from Ignite Projects.

But nearby residents opposed to the project are outraged, saying it is not in keeping with the City Plan.

The previous design, filed with council late last year, featured 11 double-storey “sky villas”, including hi-tech “sky garages”.

The tower looks different from its previous design.

The revamped Monaco will now feature eight half-floor villas plus, 16 full-floor units with 360-degree views and a double-storey penthouse, making it around two levels taller.

Ignite managing director Josh Foote said the revised design came as a result of feedback.

Artist impressions of the interior of The Monaco

“Increasing the site size of the original development allowed us to carefully redesign our offering to deliver what the market is looking for - opulent 380 sqm full-floor beachside apartments finished to the highest standard with every design element considered,” he said.

The tower will have “sky garages”

“With a prime location overlooking the beach or the yacht club, on a prominent corner block,

The Monaco offers the very best of ultra-luxurious beachside living while providing the convenience and craftsmanship of carefully considered planning and the highest quality finishes.

“This development will sit as the jewel in the crown of the Gold Coast residential offering.”

The tower is planned for a site on Main Beach’s Macarthur Parade and is pitched as featuring the southern hemisphere’s first car lift and “sky garages”.

A group of Main Beach residents are furious about the proposed tower.

But it has long been opposed by the Main Beach Association which argued it would set a precedent for similar towers blocking the view of luxury apartments built 30 years ago.

They argue the inclusion of sky garages would also prove a serious fire hazard.

Senior fire safety engineers advised the group the size of a fire from a vehicle would be twice of one expected from a loaded wardrobe within a unit and could cause higher temperatures, decreased evacuation times and increased entry access problems for fireys.

The tower’s design has been revamped.

Association president Sue Donovan last night told the Bulletin residents were “up in arms” over the tower.

“This (revised application) did not come as a surprise, we knew this was coming,” she said.

“The community is up in arms about this but you can only fight it in accordance with the City Plan.

“All we can do is look at the City Plan.”

The project went before the council’s planning committee last month but it was knocked back.

The revised application will now be considered again by council before the end of the year.