Orange City Council will now have to review plans for removing the March Street site.

The track has seen little use for years and has cost council thousands of dollars to maintain.

However, after having to submit their own development application to flatten the site, council now might have to spend more than the $20,000 it expected to pay.

Cr Russell Turner said he was stunned when he found out all quotes received for the work were way above what council had expected.

"I was quite staggered at the range of quotes," he said.

"They were staggeringly high."

He said the lowest quote was double what council had expected.

Cr Turner said the issue would be discussed at council's next meeting.

He said he wanted to see the unused track levelled off and seeds planted.

"I see it as just an ugly scar to the people who were visiting the hospital and visiting Anzac Park for sporting activities," he said.

"It was a blot on the landscape," said Cr Turner.

He said council would need to consider getting more quotes or talking to the lowest tenderer about how they could reduce the cost.

"There was obviously a misunderstanding in the tender process or [they were] having difficulty in reaching the guidelines," he said.

Cr Turner said the track had been used initially but it fell out of favour.

"There was a fairly strong club there at one stage," he said.

"Then it got down to just one or two parents."

He said a group of parents had tried to raise funds for starting gates at the track.

However when that did not eventuate the track saw less and less use.

"It was a scar on the area, it was overgrown with weeds," he said.

Construction began on the project in May 2014, with the council outlaying $29,435 and the NSW Office of Sport and Recreation $25,000.

About 10,000 cubic metres of fill was used to form the track.

However by 2017 councillors were questioning its future saying it wasn't being used and potentially dangerous.

Last year council closed the track and decided to remove it.

This year councillors were told a development application was needed for the demolition work.

Community services director Scott Maunder said they had to consider water on the site.

"It was as much about the need to manage the water once we remove the BMX track and how it impacted on our detention basin," he said.

Development services director Mark Hodges also said a DA was needed.

"The general rule there would be if you need a DA to build it, you would need a DA to demolish [it]," he said.