Thanks for your response Jaxon, that example looks very impressive, I would have thought it would have been much more expensive in southport.

This idea came from listening to a property podcast awhile back, the guy had some interesting concepts,  basically converting 1a building to a 1b, apparently possible with every council, and mentioned the goldy specifically. can get a ‘universal access’ exemption and the insurance is ‘manually under written’ so its not commercial boarding house costs

I have read that brisbane council allow for a home conversion for upto 5 un related parties, each with self contained rooms with a shared communal area. does not need to be council approved, but run through a private certifier for self assessable approval. and zoning can be low density.

the converted dwelling would need to include at least 1 bath, a phone line for emergency calls, 1 letterbox and 1 set of bins allowed, linked smoke detectors in all rooms, etc etc..

Before anything, I guess my first point of call should be to a town planner to see if anything similar exists for the coast.

Thanks again mate.

Jimmy