Fairholme unveils multimillion dollar master plan

An elite southeast Queensland school has unveiled master plan that will see a huge redevelopment of its facilities and replace more than half the existing buildings at a cost of more than $20 million.

An artist's impression of what the new masterplan at Fairholme College would look like.

FAIRHOLME College has unveiled a multimillion-dollar master plan that will see a huge redevelopment of the independent school over the next 50 years.

College business manager Mark Freeman said the master plan would involve gradually reconfiguring the site over that period to position the school for the "educational needs of the future".

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Mr Freeman said the first few stages of the master plan would cost more than $20 million, with stage one to begin in 2021 and stage two expected to start in 2024.

The master plan outlines a strategy that will see the school replace more than half its buildings, while significantly altering the other half.

Mr Freeman said the master plan also meant that the Fairholme campus would become completely wheelchair accessible.

Under the plan, the school will grow from its current cohort of 800 students to a bit over 1000.

"We are grateful to M3architects, for their insightful work to provide us with a plan that we think continues to tell the Fairholme story."

Mr Freeman said M3architects spent 12 months working closely with the school.

The first stage would involve creating space to move students from buildings that will need to be knocked down in stage two, as well as centralising administrative staff currently scattered across the campus.

"That will then allow for the development of a current building to be converted into a new assembly space and chapel space," he said.