Canal estate

To build the estate, civil contractors will dredge parts of the site to create deep, navigable channels, and use the resulting fill to form islands and headlands above the flood level.

[citation needed] Canal estates originated in the United States, where developer Abbot Kinney sought to create a Venice-like city in swampland on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

The canal estate model proved more resilient on the east coast, where they are a significant part of the urban structure of Cape Coral, Fort Lauderdale and Miami in Florida.

Working with celebrated Austrian town planner Karl Langer, Grant created Australia’s first “man-made waterway estates”, Miami Keys and Rio Vista, at Broadbeach in 1957.

Recognising the risk of flood, the city council mandated that one pound from the sale of every lot should go to a University of Queensland project studying mitigation strategies.