Seaside is fast earning a reputation as one of the Tweed Coast’s leading developments in environmental design and sustainability.

More than 55,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted over the last two years to rejuvenate the Seaside site, which was previously a fully operational sand-mine inhabited by invasive plants that are now declared weeds.

The next stage of the estate’s landscaping program has just kicked off, with an onsite team working busily to plant more than 20,000 new trees and shrubs by October this year.

Once work is complete, the majority of Seaside’s streets, parks and public gardens will be landscaped, at a total cost of more than $3 million.

Our onsite team is working busily to plant more than 20,000 new trees and shrubs by October this year.

Seaside project manager Ron Barclay says the landscaping and revegetation scheme is part of Seaside’s push to be at the forefront of environmentally sustainable development.

“There is no coastal vegetation program underway along the south-east Queensland or northern New South Wales corridor that is comparable to the scale and standard of what we are doing here at Seaside,” Mr Barclay said.

Mr Barclay says construction at Seaside will also follow eco-sensitive principles.