Gold Coast QLD News Summary: Developers rule in Coast's city plan and other top stories.

Developers rule in Coast's city plan
Some residents are worried more of the city could look like this. Picture: David ClarkA GROUNDSWELL of disquiet over exactly what developers can and can’t do under Gold Coast planning laws is coming to a head less than two months out from the council election. Three new community action groups have been formed in the past three weeks alone in response to development projects which have been approved or considered far beyond the limits of the council’s planning scheme.However, Mayor Tom Tate said..
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Stars flock to Coast's Oracle

Tom Hiddleston with a fan at Broadbeach in an image from his Instagram account.IT’S the shopping, dining and entertainment street apart — the perfect place for A-list celebs to set up their home away from home on the Gold Coast.The Oracle precinct at Broadbeach has become a mecca for the cavalcade of TV and film stars passing through the Coast for both holidays and to work on films, including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Kong: Skull Island.The precinct’s central location ..
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Meter Maids ready for food fight

Seeing Gold Coast Meter Maids like Jade Ellis and Brearna Newman on Surfers Paradise Beach will soon be a common sight as the girls will be delivering food via a new app. Photo: Tim MarsdenGOLD Coast meter maids have gone from feeding meters to feeding hungry beachgoers, with the launch of controversial new takeaway food delivery service straight from the shops to the Surfers Paradise sand.The app-based ‘Maid to Order’ service is up and running despite warnings from the Gold Coast City Council t..
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Diary of a former Coast prostitute

Pictured at Broadbeach former local prostitute and heroin addict, Kim Den Hertog who is reaching out to other street workers. Picture Mike BatterhamKIM Den Hertog is intelligent, well-spoken and engaging. She is also a former prostitute and heroin addict, who has had her share of pain, and is now reaching out to others trapped on the streets of the Gold Coast.The mum of three left her street work only six years ago and today she is a case manager at Transformations rehabilitation centre in Surfe..
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Calls to scrap 'fruit tingles' tower

An artist impression of the $37.5 million redevelopment of the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct at Evandale.FUTURE stages of the $300 million Gold Coast Cultural Precinct should be reviewed to scrap plans for towers, say mayoral and council candidates.Up to 11 new buildings could be built on the Evandale site, with some expected to have hotels and other commercial space.These buildings would largely replace the existing parklands which front Bundall Road.Work on the $37.5 million stage one, to inclu..
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'I'm a (GC) celeb get me out of here'

Chris Brown say new I'm A Celebrity will be more dangerous2:15Dr. Chris Brown reveals new series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here will be more dangerous with the show being filmed in Africa GOLD Coast model and DJ Brook Evers is the latest celebrity being touted as a possible contestant on the second Australian series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Evers flew out of the Gold Coat bound for Hong Kong yesterday (Australia Day), prompting speculation she is on her way to South Africa ..
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Suns recruit latest injury casualty

Picture: Scott Fletcher. THE Gold Coast Suns horrible run of injuries refuses to go away with new recruit Jarrad Grant forced out of training with a hand injury.
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Lambert's working class mayor plan

Gold Coast mayoral candidate Brett Lambert considers himself a hard worker and on occasion has held down four jobs at the same time and considers being the Mayor his dream job. Pic by David ClarkBRETT Lambert has worked up to four jobs at once for the past three years to save enough money to fund a campaign to become Gold Coast mayor.Now he is putting up his $30,000 in life savings to run against four other contenders for the top job, including against the incumbent, Tom Tate, who reportedly spe..
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$200k for Coast private school fees

How much? The cost of private education on the Coast has been revealed.GIVING your child a private school education on the Gold Coast can cost a whopping $200,000 — or as little as $12,000.But an education expert warns the amount you pay is not critical to success — it is what you put into the schooling that counts most.Griffith University Professor of Education Glenn Finger said children did well in all school systems, be they public, independent or church and the Coast had seen “tremendous gro..
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Boozy driver didn't rain on parade

Shari Fielder, Rebecca Foster, Ashleigh Swan and Rebecca Sargeant had Burleigh beach almost to themselves as people left because of the rain. Picture: Scott FletcherA DRINK driver, who police describe as “extremely intoxicated” caused chaos on the Gold Coast Highway yesterday.Other drivers feared for their lives as the 55-year-old man from Southport ran multiple red lights in his ford station wagon, while swerving, many frantically calling police saying he was “almost running them off the roads”..
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