Council trials AI to help progress DAs
Central Coast Council is one of 16 NSW councils which have been given grant money to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) to help speed up the assessment of development applications (DAs)….
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Council’s latest DA briefs
Forward planning for air show An application has been lodged with Central Coast Council for Paul Bennet Airshows to continue staging the annual air show at Central Coast Airport at…
The Weekly News podcast 5@5
Coast Newspaper’s Weekly News 5@5 for the first week of March 2023. Now in a new podcast format. In the bulletin, this week: Local skier wins world championship medalsCouncil’s Administrator…
Council’s development application blowout woes
Central Coast Council’s Development Application (DA) times have blown out to an average of 122 days according to fresh figures released at the February 28 meeting. The last six-monthly performance…
Development applications go online
The days of filling in manual development applications are behind us, with the NSW Planning Portal going live from June 16. All development applications submitted to Central Coast Council are…
415 new dwellings approved in March quarter
Central Coast Council adopted their third quarter report into the Activities of the Development Assessment & Environment and Certification Units and asked for the written report on new procedures for…
Development approval statistics published
Central Coast Council has approved 762 development applications, including 334 new dwellings, during the April to June quarter, councillors have been told. Consent was granted to 16 development applications that…
It is time for Council to reject non-complying applications
[Forum] A developer has submitted a development application which does not comply with Gosford planning controls for street, side or rear setbacks, apparently supported by town planners, Wales and Associates. Surely…
Climate change needs to be considered with all DAs
[Forum] The state is taking total control of Gosford’s revitalisation. Climate change action is not included in any of the documents. Central Coast Council is preparing a policy which presumably will be…
Council ‘not telling’ about compliance numbers
It is possible that no recent residential flats and multi-housing approvals issued by Central Coast Council on the [Woy Woy] Peninsula have complied with planning guidelines When asked, Central Coast…
Objections debate deferred for public feedback
Following a messy debate around the number of public submissions required before a development application could be referred to a public council meeting, the Central Coast Council reiterated its commitment…
Council sets extremely high bar for DAs
Fifty objections will be the new minimum requirement for a development application to be automatically referred to a meeting of the Central Coast Council for determination. The new Council had…