Plans to build a mosque in the Gold Coast suburb of Currumbin have been rejected.

The QLD Planning and Environment Court has upheld the Gold Coast City Council’s existing decision not to approve the application due to concerns about parking.

The Gold Coast Islamic Society is sceptical.

“There is more traffic in an industrial estate than there would be for the church,” Islamic society president Hussin Goss told ABC reporters.

“I feel that we have been unfairly dealt with in this respect, we have been trying to do the right thing by council since day one.

“We have tried to please the locals and of course at the end of the day they come up with a negative attitude.”

Anti-Islamic campaigners were spotted outside council chambers during the original planning meetings.

Mr Goss said their views were disappointing and sad.

“We I think we are being targeted because of ... what is happening around the world,” he said.

“We are a multicultural city, we're a multicultural country.

“What comes with multiculturalism is different nationalities, different religions and if we are going to open our doors to multiculturalism then we need places of worship, no matter what religion.”

A community group called the Currumbin Residential and Light Industry Safety Committee, which lobbied against the proposal, said its opposition was purely on planning.

“The way that we did [it] I am quite proud of the Currumbin community for supporting us and standing up for their rights of objecting to a development application for a place of worship,” president Tracey Thompson said.

“It doesn't matter what it was, if it was a Catholic church the issues would have remained the same.”

Council planning committee chair Cameron Caldwell said the reasons for the decision was clear.

“Council made its decision based on planning issues only and again the Planning and Environment Court also made their determination based solely on planning considerations,” he said.

In an unrelated case of council/community consternation, opponents of plans to build a mosque in Bendigo say they will take their culturally-based claim to the High Court, despite every other attempt to stop the mosque being overturned.