Dane Drive parking site could make way for seven-storey Gosford apartment-and-café plan
Plans lodged with Central Coast Council would replace a Dane Drive parking site with 15 apartments, a café and basement parking. The application has not been determined.
A Dane Drive site now used for car parking could become a seven-storey apartment-and-café building under plans lodged with Central Coast Council.
DA 936/2026 for 20–22 Dane Drive proposes 15 apartments above a ground-floor café tenancy, with basement parking below. The submitted plans show three one-bedroom, nine two-bedroom and three three-bedroom apartments.
For people who use Dane Drive, the immediate change would be from a parking area to a new residential street frontage with a café at ground level. The artist’s impression submitted with the application shows the proponent’s concept for the site; it is not a Council-approved final design.
Parking and traffic will be among the practical questions for Council to consider. The applicant’s traffic report says 23 on-site spaces are proposed — 20 for residents, two for visitors and one for café staff — and estimates the 15 apartments would add about seven vehicle trips in the morning peak and nine in the afternoon peak. Those are the applicant’s assessments, not findings adopted by Council.
The application also seeks a height variation. That request, alongside the building design, parking and access arrangements, remains for Council to assess before any development can proceed.