What's next for the Rufous Street project?

Council’s granted a development permit for Material Change of Use and Reconfiguring of Lot at 253 & 255 David Low Way and 5-7 Rufous Street, Peregian Beach, at its Ordinary Meeting on the 21 July 2016.

One of the conditions of this approval is that prior to any building work commencing on the existing car park alternative car parks be built in Rufous St and the temporary car park next to the tennis courts as per the attached plan.

Council engineers are now developing a detailed design for these works on Rufous St including new footpaths, parking spaces and stormwater run-off protections.

At the same time, the Sparks Architect team, who developed the Rufous St masterplan, are designing lighting and safety upgrades for Rufous Lane which connects the parking in Rufous St to Peregian Village.

The Rufous St civil works and the Lane safety upgrade will be the first two construction projects in the Precinct, however not much will happen on the ground in the next two or three months while detailed designs are completed and tenders for the works issued and decided upon.

Once tenders have been let there will be newsletters and media to inform residents of the construction program before the street upgrade works begin.

All of this means that construction of the new Digital Hub on the northern end of the David Low Way carpark is not expected to start until May / June 2017.

See Rufous St Precinct Stage 1 Works plan in the document library to the right of this screen.