King’s Christian College: First pictures of elite private school’s campus redevelopment plans

An elite Gold Coast private school will demolish some of its oldest buildings in a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of its campus. SEE THE PLANS

A Gold Coast high school is demolishing 1980s-era buildings and adding a pedestrian bridge linking new modern replacements in a multimillion-dollar modernisation redevelopment.

King’s Christian College’s Reedy Creek campus will undergo the overhaul to add state-of-the-art facilities under plans lodged with the Gold Coast City Council.

The new complex will form part of its middle school which services students between years 7 and 9.

Artist impression of new buildings planned for King’s Christian College at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast.

“Due to the time that has passed since original construction occurred in the

1980s, it has been identified by King’s that many of the existing learning areas are no longer

pedagogically appropriate and require modernisation to maintain pace with improvements and adaptations in delivery of high-quality educational services,” a planning report on the project reads.

“King’s seek to undertake demolition, decommissioning and new construction relevant to

the establishment of new educational buildings at the Reedy Creek Campus.”

Artist impression of new buildings planned for King’s Christian College at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast.

According to the plans:

* The school’s existing canteen and several surrounding buildings will be among those demolished.

* Two entirely new buildings will built on neighbouring sites and will be linked by a pedestrian bridge.

* The larger of the two will be three storeys while the other will have two levels.

*The school’s existing uniform shop is expected to be “ultimately redeveloped as part of separate and future works”.

Artist impression of new buildings planned for Kings Christian College at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast.

The new buildings will include a tuckshop, chaplaincy and wellbeing clinic, a sickbay, toilets, change rooms and showers. an instrumental music room and dance studio.

According to the planning report, the design of the school will gradually change into the future.

“(There will be) a fundamental change to King’s delivery of services, whereby movement is to be facilitated by internal movement spaces vs. external corridors,” the report reads.

“As a maturing school and in response to both market/client expectations and changing pedagogical demands, King’s are investing heavily in updating, refurbishing or replacing facilities and providing additional specialist facilities (such as instrumental music and drama

rooms) to provide a higher quality of educational services to the local community.”