Developer meetings show one in four success rate
In the Peninsula News, August 21, we read that a proposal for a 160-bed nursing home valued at $27.8m for a site in Hillview St, Woy Woy, was refused by…
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Airport expenditure should be put to better use
While regular flooding blocks roads, endangers lives and ruins businesses across the Central Coast, our Council wastes millions of rate payers’ dollars on temporary flood mitigation levee bank work at…
Look at what a party does
I noted with interest the media release from the Labor member for The Entrance regarding housing affordability (Wyong Regional Chronicle edition 123 Aug 15). Mr David Meehan MP and Mr…
Large effects can be initiated by the actions of a very few people
As an anecdote, I gave a short presentation at Ourimbah RSL Club a couple of weeks ago, when Van Davy (Community Plan Central Coast) chaired a meeting to meet the…
It’s time
My name is Sue Chidgey and I wish to state my reasons for standing behind three new independent candidates campaigning for the upcoming Council election on September 9. In 2015,…
Remember the past before you vote
I hope the people in the Gosford West Ward think about who they are voting for when voting in the new council election. If you drive around the streets of…
Finally, someone has taken notice
The recent ABC 4 Corners report on recycling, featuring amongst other things, the Mangrove Mountain Landfill, comes after several years of letters and reports published in Coast Community News. The…
Subdivision of the Old Farm is thin edge of the wedge
I read with disgust your reported coverage of the ‘vote’ by the Administrator at the Council Meeting on July 26 (Agenda Item 2.6) “the 300 lot subdivision of the Old…
Heritage preservation opportunity wasted
The proposed gutting of the School of Arts building completely exterminates its history of use, as both a School of Arts and an Education building, as very significant public uses….
Council fixed the problem but not the problem it caused
I have a problem with the former Gosford Council and the Central Coast Council. There is a water easement next to my property where the stormwater pipe has developed cracks…
Support sought to save our water supply from being contaminated
On behalf of Mountain Districts Association and all those who have been fighting Council and the EPA to get Mangrove Mountain Landfill closed and thus prevent the Central Coast drinking…
Look at what happened last time
I have just heard that Mr Chris Holstein is to stand for election to the new Central Coast Council. As a ratepayer on the Peninsula, I could not believe my…
Administrator rejects rezoning report, no reasons given
The Empire Bay and Districts Roads Action Group is outraged at the report on page 13 of the July 10 edition of the Peninsula News about a proposal to rezone…
Sporties proposal could not be more unsuitable
The proposed development at Woy Woy Bowling Club (Sporties) could not be more unsuitable. Enquiries to Central Coast Council is that the DA has been sent back to the applicant…
Call for community members to consider standing for election
I ’m sure I don’t need to remind readers of this newspaper of the importance of local issues to the quality of life in the Central Coast Local Government Area….
Community Strategic Plan is not pro-community
In June I attended a forum to discuss the council’s Community Strategic Plan. By the time the plan is released for public comment, the community, as we know it, will…
Why won’t government finish underpass job?
The wonderful news about the State Government’s reversal on Wyong Hospital got me thinking what about a reversal on the Bulls Hill rail underpass for those of us on the…
‘Leisurely does it’ is council watchword
“Leisurely does it” seems to be the watchword at Central Coast Council. The latest announcement that the Woy Woy Town Centre Master Plan will be completed in June 2020 (“Town…
Council needs better newspaper advertising arrangements
Is Central Coast Council aware that the Central Coast Express Advocate (CCEA), Council’s main newspaper advertising medium, has in recent months, substantially reduced both its print run and distribution network?…
East Coast Low anniversary marked by lack of action
It is 12 months to the day that people living along Wamberal Beach could see for the first time the damage caused by a series of East Coast Low storm…