Demolition Robina

Robina, in short

Robina sits about ten kilometres south-south-west of Surfers Paradise, with Mudgeeraba to the west and Varsity Lakes, Merrimac and Clear Island Waters on its other sides. It didn't grow like the older coastal suburbs. It was drawn up as one of Australia's first master-planned communities in the 1980s, around constructed lakes, golf courses and a town centre. Today that centre holds Robina Town Centre, the hospital, the train station and the stadium, and Bond University has its main campus here. The M1, Robina Parkway and Bermuda Street carry most of the traffic.

Houses from the first estates

Because Robina is young, the houses that come down here aren't Queenslanders or fibro shacks. They're late-1980s and 90s brick and rendered family homes, often with a pool out the back and a long concrete driveway out the front. The house is usually the easy part. The pool, the slab and the paving take planning too, so we price them from the start. Homes from the 1980s were built before 1990, so an asbestos survey still comes first.

Built on reshaped farmland

Before the estates, this was low-lying, swampy dairy country. It was reshaped in the 1980s around Robina Waters, Lake Orr and West Lake, and Mudgeeraba Creek still runs down through the suburb into the lakes. Flood warnings for the creek have covered parts of Robina, so we check your lot for flood and site overlays before quoting. Once the house is gone, footings, slabs and pool shells are removed and the ground is backfilled and compacted for the new build.

The council, and getting to you

Robina is in the City of Gold Coast. Most demolitions need building approval, and Robina Central runs under its own planning agreement, so Gold Coast Demolitions checks what applies to your lot before quoting. Trucks come off the M1 at Robina Parkway or in along Bermuda Street. On lake and golf course lots, all loading happens from the street side, and game days near the stadium are planned around.