Dispute over an old golf course on the Gold Coast being turned into housing | ABC News

As Australia's housing crisis lurches on, bitter feuds are playing out for prized parcels of land.

Home owners Adrienne and Glenn Pearson are in the thick of it.

They're part of a group that amassed more than 700 neighbours for a court showdown against a housing development proposed for an abandoned golf course on prime Gold Coast land.

Following a coordinated campaign, their local council unanimously rejected a developer's plans to build on the site.

But the state government could step in to override the rejection through special powers under the Planning Act known as a ministerial call-in.

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