Gosford Council wharf is a disaster
Forum – What a great pity and eyesore the Gosford council wharf and The Coast Bar and Restaurant have become. It is the first thing in Gosford visitors see and…
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Does anyone think a referendum is a good idea?
Forum – Why are we proceeding with the futile and ill-judged referendum on the number of councillors required for our city? This seems to have been some kind of pet…
Two term limits for councillors
Forum – I totally agree with Kevin Duncan (Previous councillors not wanted, CCN May 12) about not allowing any of the previous councillors to run for Council ever again. (This…
IPART ruling at odds with Minister’s claims
Forum – My understanding, having watched the Central Cost Council ePetition debate in the NSW parliament, is that any involvement with IPART would be deferred until after the findings of…
Bullion Street carpark sale makes sense
Forum – The sale of the Bullion Street carpark is an excellent idea (“Prospective Umina Beach carpark sale raises local ire”, PP013). In fact, the property was offered for sale…
Sale of Bullion St carpark will hurt local business
Forum – It has been suggested that the redevelopment of the Bullion Street carpark is ‘a once in a lifetime opportunity’. I cannot agree with that because this is a…
A 9 councillor, 3 super-ward election will best serve party hacks
Forum – Well it’s all happening. Administrator Dick Persson has gone and IPART has given the Council a 15 per cent rate increase, but only for three years. We now…
We now live in the land of the poor and neglected
Forum – In 2017/18, of the seven merged metropolitan councils, only two reported a surplus, while 13 of the 14 small non-merged councils reported a surplus, according to a report…
Irresponsible dog owners need to know the laws they are breaking
Forum – I refer to the article Zero tolerance approach to dog attacks (CCN291), which was an Administrator’s minute from an ordinary meeting of the Central Coast Council meeting of…
Hard to sustain growth with a 43 per cent rate rise
Forum – I write in reference to the article about the newly appointed Central Coast Council CEO, David Farmer (CCN291), who states he is in for the long haul. This…
No excusing fiscal incompetence
Forum – Chris Holstein’s contention about our present catastrophic situation, that “a public inquiry would accomplish little … (because) it has the potential to embarrass the State Government, the Department…
Strange manoeuvrings on land sales
Forum – The Administrator continues to attempt to convince the Central Coast community that pockets of green spaces in residential areas must be sold off, but his actions seem to…
Land sale decisions give contradictory signals
Forum – The Administrator continues to attempt to convince the Central Coast community that pockets of green spaces in residential areas must be sold off, but his actions seem to…
Waterfront development potential is largely fictitious
Forum – It’s deja vu all over again. Our Administrator has belatedly discovered the potential of the waterfront (“Possible rezone for Gosford waterfront”, CCN 290) to make Gosford into a…
Sale of Mt Penang Parklands will be devastating
Forum – I have never written a letter to the editor before, but I am so shocked and saddened by what is happening on the Central Coast right now that…
Too simplistic to lay blame at the feet of councillors
Forum – Contrary to the views of Lucy Wicks, Adam Crouch and the Administrator I am sure that the Liberal Party Central Coast Council amalgamation was a failure of their…
Inquiry’s terms of reference fall far short of what is required
Forum – The public inquiry announced by the Minister (“Public inquiry under section 438u of the Local Government Act 1993 into Central Coast Council”, CCC 236) falls far short of…
Healthy people on a sick planet?
Forum – Many leaders in industry, politicians, religious leaders, educators and economists continue to try to solve today’s problems with the same thinking that created them. They are down at…
Avoid blaming the easy targets
Forum – So much has been written about the financial crisis that has occurred with our local government. Many have fallen into the trap, perhaps gratuitously, of joining a witch…
Searching for the PM’s energy policy in an empty jar
Forum – The picture of our PM (Scott Morrison) peering into a glass jar, presumably full of hydrogen (CCN 289) but, perhaps, completely empty, isn’t a bad image of our…