THE battle to host Cairns’ first street slide has heated up with two companies registering their interest in the Far North.

Increasing in popularity around the world, a street slide is a 300 to 325m slippery slide set up on a public street.

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Slide the City asked Cairns residents on its Facebook page which location they thought would be best to construct the giant slippery dip. Suggestions included the Esplanade, Toogood Rd in Bayview Heights and Greenslopes St in Edge Hill.

Rival company City Slider will visit the Far North to scout for potential locations for its slide, with possibilities including Kuranda. Mark Moore of City Slider said there were many factors to consider when setting up in a new town.

“It obviously needs to be a hill with a decent gradient,” he said. “But if we need to do it outside of the city we need to take into consideration residential impacts.”

Mr Moore said planning was in a preliminary stage.