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Urgent Action required on Simulator Development Application

The Department of Transport is pushing its application to develop the area adjacent to The Spit kiosk carparks into a "maritime simulator/ training centre" and related accommodation. This is totally against stated Government policy as to The Spit. Unbelievably, we have to say NO again, it seems.

This development proposal is adjacent to the kiosk carpark, on the eastern side of The Spit, opposite DJ Park, in the midst of Federation Walk and a stone's throw from the beach. All in an area the Bligh Government has publicly promised to protect for the people.

NOW is the short window within which we can say NO.

We have organised two approaches to emphasise objections as follows:

1. The Formal GCCC Process


Urgent- You MUST do this (please!) to arrive before 25 October to make your objection effective. It must be signed by you and posted or delivered to GCCC by this date. This is the formal way to object to the development proposal. How?

- Write to the GCCC to formally record your objection. If your time is short, it is sufficient to say something like:

"We object to this development on the basis that it is totally inappropriate for this area and contravenes the Local Area Plan as well as the State Government promises that there will be no commercial development north of SeaWorld. Save our Spit."

- POST or DELIVER this so it arrives on or before 25 October to: Chief Executive Officer, PO Box 5042, Gold Coast Mail centre, Qld 9729.



2. Send an email direct

Go to this link http://www.saveourspit.com/No_Terminal/customer/SimulatorEmail.jsp

Here you can complete a form that will send an email to

  • Premier Anna Bligh MP
  • Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure and Planning Paul Lucas MP
  • Minister for Transport John Mickel MP
  • All Gold Coast Councillors

The purpose behind this is to make all decision-makers aware of this ridiculous development application and to ensure that the State Government 'gets it' that such proposals for the northern Spit have been rejected once and for always by Gold Coasters. The application must be withdrawn if the Government is to follow its own policy on The Spit.

We have put the Minister of Transport on notice of this fact already.

PLEASE help us (yet again) to stand firm to protect The Spit. We always said we would need to 'see this through' and we hope you will help us to do that!

Very best wishes,

SOSA Team

Save Our Spit