Crane Count April 2018

Marked in blue are Gosford's building sites for late March 2018

15 cranes counted on the 14th of April 2018

From top to bottom & left to right:

Racecourse Rd - small crane, 'Golf Heights' apartments, just back from the road behind some small trees.

Tiny houses - NO crane, site included on the map because it's so unusual and so tiny in comparison to every other build in and around Gosford.

Range Rd - small crane, an awkward house site on a steep hillside, off Henry Parry Drive North Gosford and around the corner from Ormond Street.

Ormond Street - biggish yellow crane, low-rise units on another fairly tricky site just off Henry Parry Drive.

Beane St West (2 dots) - big crane, a large steep site between the hospital on Holden Street and Showground Road along the railway line, this site is the largest in and around Gosford, is still undergoing foundation work and is an expansion of the hospital and will have various clinics, teaching facilities and parking.

Beane St East, on the corner of Hills Street - medium-sized grey crane, steep-ish site, low/medium rise apartments, like Kendall Street and Lynn Avenue, a tricky site to work on due to access issues.

Faunce St West, Gosford, this big yellow crane sat idle for months but now the two old houses on the site (opposite Cape Street North) have been demolished so this sloping site's foundations should be finished in a few months.

Hargraves St - small crane tucked away in the front left corner of the site, this street runs off Kendall Street near Ward Street, the site is the steepest I've seen so far, the foundation work is obviously heavy-going but seems to be about halfway through now.

Bately St - big red, white and blue crane, on the corner of Donnison Street in West Gosford, a 7 or 8 storey apartment tower right on the peak of a hill so its top floor will effectively be about 25 storeys above Mann Street.

Wilhelmina St - big yellow crane, West Gosford, 'Harbour View' apartment tower, so far the biggest hole that's had to be dug down into the sandstone but now going along at a good pace since the foundations were poured, barely 50 metres from Bately Street site.

Donnison St West - biggish yellow crane, near the corner of St George Street and about 200 metres from Wilhelmina St, a smallish apartment block, also going along at a fair clip now its big hole down into the sandstone has been dug and its foundations laid. This site's sandstone hole was about the same size at the one at Lynn Avenue.

Kendall St (2 dots) - big yellow crane on 'Icon' site and another big yellow crane on 'Vue' site, both apartment towers, both going ahead at a good pace but 'Icon' (upper site) is very difficult to photograph well now, due to the narrowness of the street and the fact that the opposite side of the road is a dangerously steep slope covered in trees and a tangle of undergrowth.

'Bonython Tower' AKA Singo's tower - biggest and first crane in Gosf's current building boom, yellow and visible from most parts of Gosford and even from the Woy Woy end of Brisbane Water Drive, the site is on Mann Street (main street) right next to Gosford's only shopping centre, the Imperial Centre, a neat quick site going along at a cracking pace.

'32 Mann St' - big yellow crane, Mann Street Gosford, just near the corner with Georgiana Terrace and, from its website, for "commercial building with a mixed use ground floor...retail uses [and]...Department of Finance, Services and Innovation", moving along at a fair clip.

Lynn Avenue - medium-sized yellow crane, site is in Point Frederick just behind the yacht club and is to be a medium-sized apartment tower overlooking the Gosford Broadwater, despite the narrowness of its street this site going along at a good pace now the big hole has been dug down into the sandstone and the foundations laid.



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