The project team will now contract external consultants to complete a full feasibility study before detailed designs are commissioned and a development application is lodged in 2017. 

“I’m extremely pleased the North-West will be able to rise to its rightful position as one of the great tourist destinations in the country,” proponent Brian Inder said. 

“We’ve got no government money, no handouts from anybody, it’s just people who want to see it happen.”

The project is estimated to cost between $13 and $60 million. The preliminary study had taken several years to complete and Mr Inder said it found the project was commercially viable.  Mr Inder said external consultants had now been engaged to complete a full feasibility study and legitimise the group’s work.

“They will assess everything we’ve done and say whether it’s true or not,” he said. 

“We have studied it all and we have found that it will work, there’s no two ways about it.”

But Mr Inder, who has campaigned for several years for the cable car, said everything now hinged on the outcome of the feasibility study. 

Kentish mayor Don Thwaites said a cable car would be a “significant attraction to the area” and “certainly increase the accessibility of the mountain”.

“That said, there will be a number of people who have opposed the project on the likelihood that it will be visible on the mountain and that it will disturb the vista of it,” Cr Thwaites said.

“Everyone will be very interested to have a look and see how that works out.”

The preliminary study was commissioned and conducted by the cable car company team.

 “Our own group has raised the money and it we crash in flames, we crash in flames and loose the lot,” Mr Inder said.