The people will never be silenced
[Forum] I would like to give a hearty congratulations to your newspaper on being independent. As the people have shown, the Liberal and Labour parties are not the only ones who…
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Planning controls are being taken away
[Forum] Classifying any development above $75m as state significant development, is taking planning controls away from the democratically elected local Central Coast Council and transferring that control to unnamed bureaucrats and…
Caroline Bay Reserve compromised for Teahouse
[Forum] I am writing to express my concern at Central Coast Council’s proposal (DA 55218/2018) to take back 550sqm of Caroline Bay Reserve to build a Teahouse on behalf of the…
Prime Minister asked to ensure access to ceremony
[Forum] I have sent a letter to the Prime Minister requesting an urgent intervention to ensure the 100-year ceremony to mark the end of World War 1 is not disadvantaged…
Impose fines on waratah thief
[Forum] The October long weekend saw the arrival of several magnificent waratahs at the top of the Patonga Hill Ridge. These beauties were in several stages of bloom and admired by…
Not satisfied that Delta has our wellbeing at heart
[Forum] I write regarding the article ‘Australian Lawyers concerned about 400-hectare ash dam’, published on Page 5, of the Wyong Regional Chronicle on August 22. Residents living in the northern part…
Support for rugby appreciated
[Forum] I wish to thank your publication for supporting Central Coast Rugby Union this year. We have had a great year, which culminated in a wonderful Grand Final in Woy Woy,…
Draft DCP overrides too many previous regulations
[Forum] I would like to express my concern and objection about the short time frame that Central Coast residents have been given to study and reply to the rather complex draft…
Proposed changes in DCP are of serious concern
[Forum] I am deeply perturbed with what I have seen happening in Gosford CBD of late, and the draft Development Control Plan (DCP) exhibited. Issues of concern are: Traffic flow and…
Safe pedestrian access only half completed
[Forum] It is not hard to see the lovely sandstone where half a path has been constructed along Brisbane Water Dve, Point Clare, for safe pedestrian access. However, the second half…
Time to tell the truth about school funding
[Forum] Education is too important to be hijacked by politics and spin. The fact is that there are no cuts in Commonwealth school funding, in fact there are year on-year increases….
Council has not done enough with ferry services
[Forum] Many residents joined together on Tuesday, September 18, to protest about the fact that Central Coast Council has not done enough to ensure the continuing service of the Palm Beach…
A mobile phone is now a must
[Forum] Our house has a lift originally installed for disabled use, and in the old days of landlines and ADSL, the lift telephone continued to work in a power blackout as…
The council, and we as citizens, can’t afford to sit and do nothing
[Forum] In regards to the video news interview with Coast Shelter’s, Laurie Maher, re affordable housing, it is not enough to provide even a massive increase in transitory housing for rough…
Koolewong boating area only half done
[Forum] Congratulations on the fantastic new boat ramps and pontoons at Koolewong, but please tell me the rest of the potholed and the derelict car park is going to be resurfaced….
The world’s gone mad
[Forum] After reading some of the newspapers lately, I’ve come to the conclusion that our country is now out of control with stupid political correctness. Is there anything now called…
Return our local government planning powers
[Forum] We did not ask for a Coordinator General for the Central Coast. I thought that only yesterday, in the wreckage of the Wagga by-election, our Premier said she was listening…
Wrong place to grow water-hungry crops
[Forum] Call me heartless, but I am afraid that I have very little sympathy for ‘Big Irrigation’, who also steal water by by-passing their meters, who insist on growing water-hungry…
Not too late to move Oyster Festival
[Forum] Our association, the National Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association of Australia, fully supports the Vietnam Veterans and Mr Bill Jackson from Ettalong Beach Diggers in their opposition to holding…
There needs to be massive development of Social Housing
[Forum] It is not enough to provide even a massive increase in transitory housing for rough sleepers who wish shelter. As things remain, the number of homeless will just keep rising….