QLD News Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Two high-flying richlisters are going head-to-head in a legal battle over one’s plan for a dream home on the Gold Coast millionaire’s row.
Eurogold Developments Pty Ltd, wholly owed by Graham Smorgon, 75 - who ran Smorgan Steel - filed an appeal in the Planning and Environment Court in Brisbane in a bid to block bathroom baron Lindsay Sinclair’s palatial four-level home on the corner of Hedges Ave and Alfred St. The homes share stunning coastal views to Coolangatta and beyond. According to the appeal filed on October 23, Eurogold is seeking to overturn the Council of the City of Gold Coast’s decision to approve Sinclair’s 13.
5m tall home. The council gave it the green light to the founder of well-known bathroom fittings company Highgrove to build at 47 Hedges Ave on September 16, the appeal states. Eurogold paid $5.
5m for a three-storey four-bed four-bath luxury beachfront Mediterranean-style villa in 2010, property records state. Graham Smorgan of Smorgan Steel. The Smorgon home sits two doors down from Sinclair’s proposed home and boasts a roof terrace with lap pool, spa and sundeck.
“The height, bulk and scale of the proposed development is excessive and constitutes an overdevelopment of the land,” the Eurogold appeal states. “The building height overlay map of the (council’s) planning scheme identifies the land with a building height designation of two.