Proposed development by Ridong reignites dormant community group in Tallebudgera
A PROPOSED multimillion-dollar development by Ridong in the heart of the Gold Coast Hinterland has reignited a dormant community group who want to stop the super sized city from going ahead.
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THE southern valleys of the Gold Coast will be demanding council pays for reports that reject a super city being built in the Hinterland.
The Gold Coast Bulletin last month revealed cashed-up developer Ridong had lodged plans with the council to revamp a former poultry farm into the Tallebudgera Wellness and Tourism gardens.
Tallebudgera residents dusted off a dormant community group last week in preparation of a war over the proposed city.
Save Our Southern Valleys will meet at Tally Valley Golf Course on October 15 to plan on how to stop the development along Tallebudgera Connection Rd.
The site is at a former poultry farm which for decades has been the flash Bellagio La Villa mansion sitting at the entrance to the valley.
According to property searches Ridong Group chairman Riyu Li bought the mansion for $6.2 million, caretakers’ home for $1.78 million, adjoining house for $2.8 million and nearby blocks for $1 million in 2014.
Save Our Southern Valleys interim co-ordinator Jim Wilson said a development of that scale was not welcomed within the rural residential area.
“We’re not against further residential development but we are against international type facilities like that will clearly put a different character, lifestyle and amenity for residents in the valley,” he said.
Ridong lodged plans for the 47.5ha site last month, which feature a six-star, 98-room hotel that would include a five-storey building and the property’s existing mansion and a four-storey 14,885 sqm gallery to house contemporary European art and sculptures, a 100-seat theatre, an entertainment lounge and automotive museum similar to Tasmania’s Museum of Old and Modern Art (MONA).
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“They will submit 800 pages of reports that will be put in,” Mr Wilson said.
“The proponent will spend $100,000 on these reports on the basis the project meets the criteria and is approved.
“We want the councillor to hear the community and decide to pay for independent studies to review these reports.”
It is not the first time Ridong has had grand plans for the block of land and angered the locals.
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Save Our Southern Valleys community group was created in 2015 to stop the previous plans to create a theme park.
It was supposed to be a nature-based theme park inspired by the most beautiful gardens on Earth as part of an Australia-first, $250-million tourism development.
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