Weekly News 5@5
Welcome to Central Coast Newspapers’ Weekly News 5@5, May 6, 2022. The lead stories from across the region in a quick and easy audio/video format. This week: Things are heating up…
COSS
More COSS land in West Gosford with Dell Rd decision
Very Fast Train’s loss is Coastal Open Space System’s gain.
Doyalson environmental land sale shows lack of protections – CEN
The fire sale of ecologically valuable land at Doyalson is the perfect example of why the Coastal Open Space System (COSS) needed to be expanded to the whole Central Coast…
Not all riders are destructive
Forum – I take exception to the tone used by Godfrey Franz (in a recent Forum) regarding healthy park users on bikes. Firstly, the argument is about mountain bikes, not…
Time to protect the Coast’s premier natural asset
Forum Coastal Open Space System, or COSS as it is lovingly referred to by many locals, is a large network of reserves and bushland around our ridges, down into the…
Whither COSS, the hallmark of the Central Coast?
[Forum] In the wider city of Gosford, I know that, in most places, I can look at the green horizons and know how precious they are to the Central Coast….
Council biodiversity strategy to be redrafted
Councillors have asked council staff to make changes to a draft biodiversity strategy to include reference to the Coastal Open Space System before they considered adopting it. The draft strategy…
COSS to be added to biodiversity policy
A biodiversity policy that has the potential to boost tourism and help save endangered ecological communities such as Porters Creek Wetlands at Warnervale, the single largest wetland in the region,…
The Book of COSS
A former Mayor of Gosford will be paid $8,200 to write the history of the COSS – the Coastal Open Space System as long as he gets the balance of…
Mayor Smith in the spotlight – Video News
In the latest Central Coast Newspapers’ video news, Central Coast Mayor, Clr Jane Smith, said she believed Council meetings needed to be more frequent than monthly. “I think there is…
Davistown Wetlands should become part of COSS
Mr Pat Aiken, from Coastal Residents NSW, said the imminent sale of the 48 acres of environmentally sensitive wetland at Davistown, was an opportunity for the Central Coast Council and…