HAWKS Nest residents could soon start seeing rickshaws being pedalled around with a development application (DA) lodged with Great Lakes Council to allow for the commercial hire of the tricycles.
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The DA for a commercial licence to use the council’s reserves in Hawks Nest was lodged by a Newcastle-based business for the purpose of pedicab rickshaw hire.
The matter was to go before the council’s strategic committee meeting on Tuesday, February 10, with the recommendation that the DA be approved.
‘‘The commercial interest is the hiring of pedicab rickshaws with the service particularly focused on families with accessibility issues such as those with very young or elderly/less mobile members,’’ a report by the council’s parks asset manager, Kris Koch, read.
The sites for the rickshaws to operate are Providence Bay Park, at the top end of Booner Street, Booner Street Reserve and the reserve at Bennetts Beach.
Hours of operation would be between 9.30am and 7pm, to begin in the April school holidays.
Three to six rickshaws are proposed.
Other matters scheduled to go before Tuesday’s strategic committee meeting, the first for 2015, included acknowledging that the planning proposal for the rezoning of the north Hawks Nest release area had expired and the progress of operations works completed. Major projects proposed to start next month would be a continuation of upgrades of Marine Drive at Tea Gardens.
