Remote Planning Panel meetings cost $12,000 each
Central Coast’s Local Planning Panel will consider new rules to hasten the pace of development application decisions. The number of complaints about a development will need to reach 15 before…
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Hillview Farmstead refused permission to be a wedding venue
A Wyong Creek wedding venue has been refused permission to re-establish the business. Approval had previously been granted for the business to operate for one year with marquees being used…
LPP approves $3.25M Wamberal childcare centre
A $3.25M childcare centre proposed for 2 High Valley Cl, Wamberal, has been approved by the Local Planning Panel. The decision is contingent on a boundary realignment to be completed…
LPP decision pending on Wamberal child care centre
A $3.25M childcare centre proposed for 2 High Valley Close, Wamberal, went to the Local Planning Panel for a decision on Thursday, November 12. The proposal attracted 26 submissions with…
$11.6M development at Long Jetty rejected
Central Coast Local Planning Panel has knocked back a mixed commercial and residential development at Long Jetty because it would not be in the public interest. The $11.6M development at…
Ourimbah boarding house rejected again
Central Coast Local Planning Panel has refused a development application for a boarding house at 17 Burns Rd, Ourimbah. The Panel’s unanimous vote against the proposal confirmed a previous refusal…
Toukley boarding house refused by Local Planning Panel
A proposal for a former 125-bed nursing home overlooking the lake at Toukley to become boarding accommodation has been refused by the Central Coast Local Planning Panel. A similar application…
Panel approves boarding house ‘in the public interest’
The Central Coast Local Planning Panel has approved an 11-room boarding house and caretaker’s residence at Umina Beach saying it provided for housing choice and was of public benefit and…
Nursing home changes should not have been needed
[Forum] The Peninsula News (July 27, page 13) reported on changes to the aged care development at 45 Hillview St, Woy Woy. This development was approved by the Hunter Central…
Twin tower proposal increased to 102 units
Amended plans for a twin tower residential and commercial complex at The Entrance have been submitted to the Hunter Central Coast Regional Planning Panel with an increase of units from…
Why can’t the Local Planning Panel conform to Local Government principles?
[Forum] It could be argued that the Berejiklian Liberal government has turned NSW into an authoritarian state that has seen the basic rights of people having no influence on their…
Does Council respond any better than Planning Panel?
[Forum] Liesl Tesch says that the Local Planning Panel is not “transparent, efficient and accountable” (“Planning Panel proves to be more costly, says Tesch”, PN 497), although how she could…
LPP is a rubber stamp for development – Tesch
Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch has slammed the new Central Coast Local Planning Panel, saying it is nothing but “a rubber stamp for development”. Tesch said the panel, which was…
Inaugural meeting of the Local Planning Panel
The first meeting of the Local Planning Panel was held yesterday (Thursday June 11) with a panel member suggesting Central Coast Council needed to look at making sure occupiers of…
Local planning panel is a win for developers
[Forum] I agree with Central Coast councillor Jillian Hogan, in her remarks that the State Government directive to implement a local planning panel for Central Coast Council is a means…
Councillors go down fighting
Central Coast Council voted on Monday, May 11, to accept the constitution of the Local Planning Panel that will now take over the councillors’ previous role in deciding development applications….
Council to vote to establish Local Planning Panel
Central Coast councillors will vote on Monday, May 11, on a State Government directive to implement a local planning panel (LPP) to decide on development applications. The planning panel will…
Chair of Local Planning Panel announced
A woman who has served for the last 17 months on a panel as a Code of Conduct reviewer for Central Coast Council has been appointed chair of the Central…
New Local Planning Panel welcomed by business interests
Developers and the business community have welcomed the State Governments decision to introduce a Local Planning Panel (LPP) for the Central Coast in early 2020, but Central Coast Mayor, Jane…
Introduction of a Local Planning Panel seen as a power grab
The NSW government’s introduction of a Local Planning Panel (LPP) for the Central Coast early next year is seen as a “power grab” by Mayor, Jane Smith. The LPP will…