Encouraging more diverse housing, prioritising infrastructure delivery and revitalising the night-time economy are features of an updated vision for the Central Coast.
Minister for Planning and Minister for Homes, Anthony Roberts, has released the finalised Central Coast Regional Plan 2041, which will guide the region’s future over the next 20 years and responds to community feedback.
“With the region’s population expected to grow by almost 57,000 by 2041, there’s no surprise this booming community is facing housing pressures,” Roberts said.
“Our blueprint identifies actions to boost local housing stock, including encouraging innovative solutions such as tiny homes and 3D-printed housing, and establishing an Urban Development Program Committee to oversee the plan’s implementation.
“The Committee will also monitor the housing supply pipeline and facilitate infrastructure coordination to unlock development-ready land, enabling industry to build more homes in the right areas.
“The Central Coast is one of four areas where Urban Development Programs will be rolled out in response to recommendations made by the Regional Housing Taskforce, with Upper Hunter, Mid-Coast, and the Canberra Region also set to benefit.”
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said the plan includes initiatives to promote sustainability, improve the night-time economy, and enhance connections to public space.
“Meeting our net zero emissions by 2050 target will be prioritised in all planning decisions, as well as ensuring the daily needs of residents can be accessed within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from where they live, reducing reliance on cars,” Crouch said.
“It also highlights strategies to help Aboriginal communities better control the destiny of their land, direct development away from important environmental areas, improve the water quality of Tuggerah Lakes, and expand the Coastal Open Space System.
“The finalised plan also includes objectives to revamp the Central Coast’s nightlife, such as offering more after-hours activities and allowing shops, cafes, galleries and museums to open their doors for longer in popular tourist towns.”
parliamentary secretary for the central coast, adam crouch
The document highlights nine priority areas: more jobs close to home; supporting the right of Aboriginal residents to economic self-determination; creating 15-minute neighbourhoods to support mixed, multi-modal, inclusive and vibrant communities; an inter connected Central Coast without car-dependent communities; nimble neighbourhoods, diverse housing and sequenced development; reaching net zero and increasing resilience and sustainable infrastructure; conserving heritage, landscapes, environmentally sensitive areas, waterways and drinking water catchments; planning for businesses and services at the heart of healthy, prosperous and innovative communities; and sustaining and balancing productive rural landscapes.
It highlights four major districts in the region; Narara, incorporating the regional capital of Gosford, the Peninsula, Lisarow, Terrigal and Avoca; Central Lakes, emerging as the primary growth front between the Central Coast and Greater Newcastle; Tuggerah; and Watagan, encompassing the mountain ranges bordering the region.
A number of regionally significant growth areas have also been identified, including Somersby, Gosford City Centre, Morisset, Warnervale, Tuggerah, the newly established Karagi (the Aboriginal name for the narrow channel that divides the mainland and connects Tuggerah Lake to the ocean); and Central Coast Plateau.
To view the blueprint, visit https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/centralcoast2041.
Source:
Media release, Oct 27
NSW Government
I have just read the introduction to the Central Coast Regional Plan and I am deeply offended by the introduction to the Plan. The plan announces that the Darkinyung are the traditional owners of the Central Coast. This statement is blatantly incorrect.
The Dakinyung People did not inhabit the Central Coast Area. They occupied lands to the west, in the Wollombi Valley.
The local inhabitants of the Central Coast were the Gu-ring-gai or Ku-ring-gai, of whom Bungaree was the most famous early inhabitant recognised by the settlers.
Lets see what we can do to recognise the true original inhabitants of the Central Coast.