Be careful how you vote
My goodness, there are enough of the power-hungry old guard standing again for Council for it to be of concern. Not only did they lead the Council blindly into huge…
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Why take so long?
In issue 452 Coast News features the departure from Central Coast Council of Dr Alice Howe, Director of Environment and Planning. At the conclusion of the article, it says that…
Bouquets to Gosford Hospital
Late in July my husband suffered a severe bladder bleed and went into Gosford Hospital emergency department at about 9pm on a Friday. He spent the next five days under…
Concern for environment lacking from candidates
With a team of 15 to cover every ward across the Central Coast, Lawrie McKinna (CCN Issue 449) detailed his team’s priorities as business, sport, long-term growth, health, infrastructure, tourism…
Get serious about illicit tobacco sales
It was dismaying to read in the Coast News of the tobacco shop fire-bombings on the Peninsula. The tobacco wars were always going to come to the Coast with the…
Pooch with a social conscience
Recently I was sitting in our car with my husband having a coffee when we noticed a dog doing a poo on the grass beside Wagstaffe waterfront. His master cycled…
Vote yes in referendum
As a former mayor of Gosford, I will be voting for the reduced number of councillors, namely nine, at the referendum on September 14 at the local government election. Those…
Council needs to be proactive
Central Coast Council fails to enforce (fine) and/or act on complaints. From illegal parking to rubbish on the kerb side, dogs off leads, illegal building works etc, the Council takes…
Think carefully about who you vote for
A previous councillor was asked at a recent ‘meet the candidate’ meeting why we should vote for him since he was the cause of the council going into administration. The…
Political parties have a place on councils
Those in our community of the view that councils are mainly about dustbins and potholes, and so political parties have little role to play there, need to think again. In…
Is electing former councillors a good idea?
We are heading to elect new councillors in September – with emphasis on new – candidates with fresh new outlooks of what is needed for the Central Coast going forward….
Vote no to referendum
Our amalgamated Central Coast Council is the third largest in NSW after Blacktown and Canterbury Bankstown, both covering five wards with 15 councillors, respectively. The decision to impose this referendum…
Pelican Time achieving great results
I am replying to the letter Time to stop feeding the pelicans from Deborah Hazlett in CCN 452. There are some important points to make. There is no pelican feeding…
New housing impacts – just don’t mention it
As a resident of the northern Central Coast and a ratepayer, I find it alarming that we only find out about major housing proposals down the road or around the…
Why sell off our chambers?
After the amalgamation of Wyong and Gosford councils, the situation is now diabolical. Gosford chambers is to be sold to developers; I ask by whose authority? We the people own…
Councillors should be qualified and accountable
As we emerge from a period of forced administration and face a council election I must express my concern at a matter that has long bugged me: the qualifications to…
Further housing density on the Coast
The NSW Government has just announced new planning measures for both Gosford and Tuggerah to facilitate more housing density across these key transport hubs. According to the State Government, this will mean…
Would-be councillors have priorities wrong
After years of Central Coast Council under administration I was excited that we will finally have elections to restore democracy. How disappointing to read in CCN 449 that a group…
No abuse at greyhound facility
I want to address a comment in the article Greyhound industry inquiry “grossly inadequate” (CCN 447) by NSW Director of the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds Kylie Field. She…
Nuclear energy as dead as dinosaurs
Those in the anti-renewables lobby don’t give up, do they? One could be excused for thinking that they have shares in the fossil-energy industry (and for the record, I do…