[Forum] Classifying any development above $75m as state significant development, is taking planning controls away from the democratically elected local Central Coast Council and transferring that control to unnamed bureaucrats and…
Mayor Jane Smith said she was extremely disappointed that the NSW Government did not appear to have taken on board many of the community’s concerns, and only a few of…
Gosford city’s revitalisation took another major step forward on Wednesday, October 10, with the release of the final Government Architect report. NSW Planning Minister, Anthony Roberts, said he had signed…
The Gosford Waterfront Alliance (GWA) has called for further exhibition of the Gosford City Development Control Plan, due to significant information being buried in appendices, rather than in the main…
Cost estimates have been obtained, but not disclosed to the public, to provide a total project cost for the cultural precinct to be built in the Gosford CBD. The financial…
[Forum] I am deeply perturbed with what I have seen happening in Gosford CBD of late, and the draft Development Control Plan (DCP) exhibited. Issues of concern are: Traffic flow and…
Coordinator General for the Central Coast, Lee Shearer, has said statements made in the last edition of Coast Community News, were “assertions” that were “incorrect”. “The assertions made in recent…
A regional library and a regional performing arts centre (RPAC), with combined, but not yet disclosed, construction costs of up to $150m, will be built in a new cultural precinct…
[Forum] We did not ask for a Coordinator General for the Central Coast. I thought that only yesterday, in the wreckage of the Wagga by-election, our Premier said she was listening…
The NSW Department of Planning’s draft Development Control Plan for Gosford reveals the State Government’s intention to develop the city’s waterfront. Central Coast Coordinator General, Lee Shearer, has said that…
Central Coast Newspapers has been given a sneak peek inside Bonython Tower, the luxury development heralded as one of the most prolific catalyst projects for the Gosford CBD. Bonython Property…
The revitalisation of Gosford City Centre as the vibrant, liveable capital of the Central Coast, reached another milestone on Thursday, August 16, with the release of the draft Development Control…
President of the Central Coast Branch of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Mr Mark Ellis, has called for increased levels of solar access and view sharing than is currently proposed…
[Forum] The State Government has appointed a team of expert overseers made up of the Government Architect, a Coordinator General, and a re-purposed, but unelected, Central Coast Regional Development Corporation,…
Coordinator General of the Central Coast, Ms Lee Shearer, has given an in-depth explanation of some of the finer points of the new planning controls proposed for Gosford CBD in…
A pivotal consultation paper has been released detailing the NSW Government’s revitalisation program for Gosford, and the deadline for community submissions is June 28. The Government Architect has created a…
Overshadowing of Kibble Park during its most popular hours of use, protection of view corridors, parking and traffic management and how planning controls will be changed. What Council’s future planning…
[Special Report] The waterfront and Kibble Park may grab all the headlines, but a new, $500m-plus precinct is emerging at the northern end of the Gosford city centre. Over half a…
The NSW Government Architect has released the first of three Place Reports that will make up the Urban Design and Implementation Framework (UDIF) for Gosford City. The report, called the…
Central Coast businesses are reporting a major boost to business in the Gosford CBD, as new jobs continue to flow into the new ATO building in Georgiana Tce and builders…