Hotel Komune approval has Coolangatta locals questioning whether they will continue fight

THE council is set to approve a new five-star, 27-storey hotel at Coolangatta.

Residents are decided if they want to fight the approval of a controversial development for Coolangatta.

THE council is set to approve a new five-star, 27-storey hotel at Coolangatta.

The Gold Coast City Council planning committee approved the Hotel Komune development yesterday, clearing the way for it to be ticked off at a full council meeting on Friday.

A nine-storey building would be torn down to make way for the hotel.

Artist’s impression of Komune at Coolangatta proposed for 140 Marine Parade.

More than 80 objections were submitted, with many people expressing concern the project was too tall and would create traffic and parking problems. Seventy people wrote in support of the project.

Opponent Kay Hornick was undecided on whether to continue fighting.

“The trouble is that now that they have approved it, if we fight this and lose we have to pay for their expenses as well as our own,” she said.

The view from the top.

The tower will contain 100 hotel rooms and 94 apartments.

Local councillor Gail O’Neil supports the project.

“We need some high quality accommodation in Coolangatta, especially since it has been marked as a major centre in the South East Queensland Regional Plan,” she told the committee meeting.

Committee chairman Cameron Caldwell said the hotel would be vital for the second half of Stage 3 of the light rail.

The 25 storey building proposed for 140 Marine Parade.

He said a high quality development on the southern Gold Coast would improve future businesses’ cases.

Hotel Komune Group co-owner Tony Cannon said extra parking spaces had been included in the project.

“This is only slightly taller than the Reflections buildings just a hundred metres away along Marine Parade,” he said.