Strategic plan … or weasel words and twaddle?
Central Coast Council’s recently released draft Local Strategic Planning Statement is a tragic reflection of what has become of our state and local planning systems. Systems which are so important…
Central Coast Council’s recently released draft Local Strategic Planning Statement is a tragic reflection of what has become of our state and local planning systems. Systems which are so important…
[Forum] I was standing isolated in the queue at a Point Clare supermarket waiting for my goods to travel along the conveyor when I suddenly realised that I had left…
[Forum] The last several months have shown people in the world how life quickly can change whatever that may be. It has resulted in good things and bad things. Many…
[Forum] I note that in edition 191 of Coast Community Chronicle, Kathleen Minassian, wrote about council parking, in response to my letter that appeared in the previous edition. It is…
[Forum] The process of Restorative Justice for Environmental Crime has been successfully used in law as a means to have greater input into decision making, and a form of healing…
[Forum] I read Sue Wynn’s letter (Chronicle, May 27) and was struck by how far we need to go to get a change in our country. We all love breathing…
[Forum] Your various excellent publications in May have contained several references to changes in the planning regime governing developments on the Central Coast. I am concerned that the voice of…
[Forum] I am alarmed at the apparent agreement between the big parties, Labor and Liberal, that the Central Coast wants a University of Newcastle extension here, on the Central Coast….
[Forum] Dear Premier, Treasurer and Member for Terrigal; I request that you abandon your recently announced plan to offer a $1000 [inducement] as opposed to honouring already agreed upon pay…
[Forum] Adam Crouch manages to criticise Central Coast Council (CCN edition 243) both for opposing the government’s decision to have any contentious development application determined by an independent expert-dominated panel,…
[Forum] When Mannering Park Progress Association asks Central Coast Council about developments that remove mature trees, we are told that there is a two for one replacement policy. This sounds…
COVID-19 has turned our economy on its head, and with that, the usual way of thinking about how to collect the taxation revenue required to have everything in society working…
[Forum] In response to Vic Wulf’s letter that appeared in edition 190, parking is a Central Coast Council matter. Metered on-street parking at Gosford and Woy Woy have been deleted…
Congratulations to all at Coast Community Chronicle. Bringing back a weekly newspaper is very much appreciated and fills a large gap in our lives. It’s a great read for us…
When essential services stayed open at the onset of COVID-19, two of those services were the early childhood centres and aged care providers. Federal and state leaders commended and praised…
[Forum] I’ve lived on the Coast for around 40 years, so I think I qualify to be a local. Have followed the changes in various areas, some for the better…
Recently, there has been a debate in the Forum of Coast Community News regarding the merits for Australians of industrial protectionism as against us operating in a relatively free market…
[Forum] As we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic in six, 12 months or more, let’s take the best we have discovered about ourselves in lockdown and re-imagine a new and…
[Forum] Central Coast Council requests that the community has input into a myriad of strategies and policies on exhibition, as if our concerns are automatically acted upon, or not overridden…
[Forum]Hospital staff shouldn’t have to pay for parking I would like to congratulate the doctors, nurses and all other staff who looked after me for 19 days in the surgical…