Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design
Consultation has concluded
How do you imagine the future of Surfers Paradise?
The Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design for our tourist heart aims to rekindle the love for Surfers Paradise as a safe and attractive destination for locals and visitors. It has been created based on community feedback on the concepts and ideas in the Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan in 2019. The community told us the most important improvements to be made are:
- Family friendly
- Pedestrian mobility
- Public safety
- Shade/street trees
The Concept Design proposes how Cavill Avenue, Cavill Mall and The Esplanade can be reimagined both by day and night. As the city moves into a new era, this revitalisation will create fresh, memorable experiences for locals and visitors alike in recognition of Surfers Paradise as a place of global relevance and a world-class destination.
Watch this video to see the vision for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation explained.
We are seeking your feedback on the Concept Design for Surfers Paradise.
How you can have your say:
- Complete our online survey and go into the draw to win one of five $500 Gift Vouchers (terms and conditions apply), or
- Share your ideas on the Concept Designs
Community consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
How do you imagine the future of Surfers Paradise?
The Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design for our tourist heart aims to rekindle the love for Surfers Paradise as a safe and attractive destination for locals and visitors. It has been created based on community feedback on the concepts and ideas in the Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan in 2019. The community told us the most important improvements to be made are:
- Family friendly
- Pedestrian mobility
- Public safety
- Shade/street trees
The Concept Design proposes how Cavill Avenue, Cavill Mall and The Esplanade can be reimagined both by day and night. As the city moves into a new era, this revitalisation will create fresh, memorable experiences for locals and visitors alike in recognition of Surfers Paradise as a place of global relevance and a world-class destination.
Watch this video to see the vision for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation explained.
We are seeking your feedback on the Concept Design for Surfers Paradise.
How you can have your say:
- Complete our online survey and go into the draw to win one of five $500 Gift Vouchers (terms and conditions apply), or
- Share your ideas on the Concept Designs
Community consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
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Place Strategy 1: Open to all
8 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.mikejroach9 months agoLinking waterways with pedestrian precincts can create vibrant, multi-modal urban spaces!
Link the river with the beach: attractive spaces for walking, jogging, and cycling; facilities for water sports and recreational activities such as kayaking, paddleboarding, and boating on the river; river ecological restoration projects
0 comment0noserings are a cry for help9 months agoTrees, trees, trees!
It's a subtropical city not a cement desert.
0 comment22W8 months agoLeave the roads alone. The cars are part of the culture and many people including myself come just for car sighting and seeing.
0 comment1JoJoH019 months agoDon't Forget Orchid Avenue
The revitalisation plans look amazing, but given that Orchid Avenue is connected to it, I think it should really be included in the plan.....right now it looks tacky, old and not very inviting. I used to live along there and especially at night, largely thanks to the clubs, it's not a very pleasant place to visit overall.
1 comment21Andrew Comer8 months agoThe concept of celebrating the past is nowhere to be seen. The principals of creating micro map of the gold coast with artificia headland
The scheme fails to understand what Surfers is about - its history and its unique relationship with the long straight beach it sits beside. The premise of establishing, let alone maintaining grassy headlands with Mature Fig trees in an extremely hostile environment is fraught with issues.
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Place Strategy 2: Supercharge the experience
8 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.mgribble9 months agoAlternate emergency access and egress.
There is much talk about resilient communities but we continue to design in the very hazards that make us more vulnerable and less resilient. As we have see numerous times in Orchid Ave, the creation of a narrow one lane one way street has caused significant delays in emergency vehicle access, especially when the first responding vehicle enters and 30 -40 cars queue up behind and the other emergency service agencies are unable to access the incident area.
0 comment0Michelle M9 months agoMore kids activities. Loads of seating. Outdoor gym equipment.
Make the water park feature interactive, loads of things for the kids to explore and play, maybe a playground close by. More shaded seating. Outdoor gym equipment along the walking/running path. Random facts about the GC placed along the path (signs or on the concrete). Loads of water stations. An acknowledgment of Country along with some educational signs around the area with random facts and some artwork.
0 comment1Shantelle Musgrove9 months agoadd a ferris wheel like the one in southbank
0 comment1Bring back Paradise8 months agoColourful seating, upgraded fenced playgrd include sensory pathways for vision impaired incentives/fines to decrease vacant shops ocean pool
1 comment1Julie Manning8 months agoInclude an arbor down the centre of Mall. The single vehicle lane between roundabouts will create more traffic issues.
Focus on Iconic Australian Beach Culture
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Place Strategy 3: Grow the Green
8 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.Gold Coast rate payer8 months agoIncrease on-sreet & off-street cheap parking. Don't approve developments,which sell units with no on-site parking, eg. Meriton 76level tower
More Parking needed in Surfers Paradise
0 comment2moi9 months agoThe shops located on the Highway are often too tacky and off-putting. How can this be improved to make the glitter strip more classy?
0 comment4adbabla8 months agoDementia Friendly community space needs addressed
look into guidelines as suggested by https://www.dementia.org.au/sites/default/files/NATIONAL/documents/Dementia-friendly-communities-toolkit-for-local-government.pdf
0 comment1RobLuxford9 months agoSeating – Joyless, hot, angular, hostile. Needs to be more communal, flowing and welcoming. Maybe a living garden.
The "Pebbles" in the design look like mean bus shelters. Instead imagine sitting under a giant Monstera leaf. The leaf could be supported by a sculptural element which could be part of a theme running through Cavil Boulevard to the pavilions on the Esplanade.
0 comment1Chrismark9 months agoShops need to be revitalised or removed. Replaced with decent, contemporary, interesting businesses, or more green street scaping/plants
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Place Strategy 4: Amplify brand Surfers
8 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.Teeraze9 months agoLight Projection tied in with water play area
As per you concept of tying in all the spaces, imagine if the light projections on the parasols tied in with the water play area at night... with recorded music, lights and water.
0 comment0SunshineState8 months agoEnliven the shade and shelter with light and form
Shade canopies can take different forms and use different materials. For example, contrast between transparency and solidity, while providing shade and shelter. The designs for the Serpentine Pavilion by Toyo Ito and Cecil Belmand in 2002, and by Frank Gehry in 2008 both did this in different ways.
0 comment0RobLuxford9 months agoSurfers Paradise, playful, fun, light, unpretentious.
The project needs a vision brief. Surfers Paradise is a place where people come to drop their cares, dig their toes in the sand, eat, smile and relax. A place Australia associates with bright sun and good times. A place where people live their dream. We bring the world’s best here and make it our own. Exciting, fresh, exuberant ideas. Bold playful, progressive unapologetic. The thumping, pumping heart of the Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise is about joy. Joy is about round things, pops of bright colour, symmetrical shapes, a sense of abundance and multiplicity, a feeling of lightness or elevation. The Surfers-paradise-place-making-plan told us what the issues are. We need to fold that information back into a brief that sets a vision for where we want to take Surfers Paradise. Something fabulous, flamboyant, stylish and fun. Something that treats Cavill not as a mall but as one of the world’s great boulevards that includes the Esplanade and river connection as part of whole, not just adjacent locales. We need unifying design elements to run right through the boulevard from river to shore. Ideas that give us hero vistas, exquisite glimpses, unique experiences and sense of connection. We need stories to walk with us as we soak in the natural wonders. New stories and ancient ones that make our connection more memorable and more meaningful. We can do fun and food for the soul at the same time.
1 comment2SunshineState8 months agoAdd seasonal art-and-design inspired installations into the mix
Seasonal or less permanent structures in smaller spaces or marking specific places would keep the place 'fresh' and colourful. - For example in Portugal, Agueda’s Umbrella Street Project began in 2011 as part of the city’s annual Art Festival. Each summer, canopies of colourful umbrellas shade narrow streets and alleys. - At Surfers this could take inspiration from HOTA Gallery’s exterior geometry and feature multi-coloured Voronoi pattern to engage the public in shared experience of light colour and form and maybe linked to HOTA's program. - Or floral and foliage could be the theme of quirky installations in intimate gathering spaces, inspired by combinations of plants and structure, like the dome-like vine-covered huts and towers designed by Jean Nouvel for Parc del Centre del Poblenou 2008.
0 comment1SunshineState8 months agoMore imaginative shade structure design
A combination of foliage and built structures is commendable, but designs depicted are predictable. And static. The Esplanade pavilion design is way too heavy-handed, and Mall shade structure design way too underdone, kind of lifeless. 4 ideas: (1) think differently about materials, form, light and shade - eg Take inspiration from the elegant curved line of The Sands balconies, or recall the breeze blocks of 1960s houses on Chevron Island and use as roofs and let a filigree of light through. (2) be inspired by the big gesture - eg The Metropol Parasol, Seville, or South Beach Shade Canopy, Singapore. (3) Bring less permanent, seasonal installations into the mix - eg The Umbrella Street Project Agueda, Portugal coincides with summer and an annual arts festival. (4) make these structures self-sustaining as collectors of energy for lighting and water for plants.
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Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design
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Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan (2019)
Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design has finished this stageEngagement concluded, feedback used to shape the current Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design.
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Community consultation (2023)
Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design is currently at this stageThis consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
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Under Review
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignContributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The project team will report back on key outcomes.
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Final report
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignThe final outcomes of the consultation are documented here. This may include a summary of all contributions collected as well as recommendations for future action.
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Stage 1A (Cavill Mall) : Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignExpected to commence mid 2025.
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Stage 1B: Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignDelivery date is pending outcomes of this consultation.
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Stage 1C: Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignDelivery date is pending outcomes of this consultation.
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Stage 2: Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignDelivery date is pending outcomes of this consultation.
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