Plans for a new pedestrian bridge across the Brisbane River are progressing, with boreholes to be drilled at South Bank in preparation for the bridge landing.

A $70 million bridge that would connect the Queen’s Wharf casino complex to South Bank was proposed as part of the Destination Brisbane Consortium’s $3 billion Queen’s Wharf development.

Brisbane City Council wants the proposed Neville Bonner Bridge from the new casino and hotel complex to South Bank near the Wheel of Brisbane scrapped.

From Wednesday, seven boreholes will be dug between the Clem Jones Promenade and the Wheel of Brisbane at South Bank, around the location of the future pedestrian bridge landing.

A spokesman for Destination Brisbane Consortium said the geotechnical investigations would be completed by the end of August and would inform the final bridge support system design.