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Carpark may grow sideways

Extra commuter carparking may be provided above the Deepwater Plaza carpark, rather than above the existing commuter carpark.

Gosford Council is considering using its airspace rights over part of the Deepwater Plaza carpark to extend the Woy Woy commuter parking station.

The NSW Ministry of Transport has approached council proposing that the extension be achieved by an expansion to the existing Woy Woy commuter parking station opposite the Deepwater Plaza Shopping Centre.

Ownership of the existing Woy Woy commuter parking station was transferred to council upon the completion of its construction by the State Government as the parking station was built over a council owned and operated carpark.

At the time negotiations to build the commuter parking station were undertaken air space rights were secured in favour of council above part of the adjacent carpark owned by Deepwater Plaza.

The Ministry has now proposed that council use these airspace rights and possibly approach Deepwater Plaza for an extension of the carpark subject to air space rights.

Further detailed investigations are also planned following meetings with a Ministry consultant and officers from council's city services and environment and planning directorates.

The investigations involved designing a concept for the parking station including a structural assessment of the capacity of the existing building to support additional decks and a traffic and transport assessment to indicate current and future demand for commuter parking.

The investigations also aimed to identify any effects on surrounding traffic and transport interchanges.

The studies were being initiated in association with the Ministry with the costs shared equally between the Ministry and council with the results expected later this year.

A council report stated that it was clear that there was a demand for additional commuter and shopper-business parking in the Woy Woy town centre.

"However, these are competing demands for parking space and it would not be appropriate for council to relinquish the opportunity to provide additional shopper and business parking on this site should this be identified to be needed, notwithstanding the demand for commuter carparking," the report stated.

The cost of providing additional commuter parking for the Woy Woy Railway Station including all investigation, design and construction activities would be met by the NSW Ministry of Transport.

The study to identify future parking requirements for Woy Woy is being funded from council's Section 94 Contributions under CP67 Car Parking Facilities Woy Woy Town Centre, as would any future parking station expansion for this purpose.

An extension of the Woy Woy Commuter Carpark was proposed in the Central Coast Transport Action Plan (August 2002).



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