Barely three months since the plans were announced, the proposed $1.5 billion Gold Coast Trump Tower has been dropped following community backlash.

The Trump organisation has split from Altus Property Group and pulled the development plans from their website.

While the deal had been signed between The Trump Organization and Altus Property Group, a full development application was never submitted to the City of Gold Coast.

Mayor Tom Tate, who showed support for the project, had little to say about the announcement.

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“This project was an agreement between two private parties,” Tate said. “No application had been submitted to council so we didn’t have a proposal to consider.”

Since the plans were announced in early March, the super tower development has received heavy criticism, including a Change.org petition which garnered 142,902 signatures.

The joint Change.org petition – started by local Craig Hill and anonymous campaigner CK – primarily objected to the Trump name, with claims it had negative associations following United State’s President Donald Trump’s felony convictions, sexual abuse allegations and history of bankruptcies.

Craig Hill, a Gold Coast teacher, journalist and political candidate for the Legalise Cannabis party, said Trump-branded developments around the world have been met with communities describing displacement pressures, price escalation, and inequality.

“The Trump brand has had a negative impact around the world, it’s banned from operating in New York state so why should we have them here?”

Hill added that the “victory” was not due to the work of his petition alone, but also the petitions from GetUp, the support of some Labor and Greens MPs and senators, Gold Coast City Councillors and barristers and lawyers who offered to work pro bono.

“Independent candidates on the Gold Coast were organising protests of the site if it went ahead,” Hill said. “Even some in the unions unofficially discussed blacklisting the site.”

“As a candidate for the Legalise Cannabis Party, I am inspired by the way Australians from all walks of life united together, took on the President of the United States, and beat him,” Hill said.

“Well done, Australia.”