Freezing of rates has thawed
The IPART press release P.12 WRC 5/12/17 requires some further truth. Former Wyong ratepayers’ rate paths were subject to a special rate variation (SRV) of 6.7 per cent for four…
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Bouquets for Wyong and Gosford hospital staff
In August, I was diagnosed with Small Cell Cancer, and was admitted to Wyong Hospital for immediate chemotherapy. All the staff were friendly, diligent and professional. Even the volunteers were…
Cost of soap is miniscule
Mr FitzSimons I hear, wanted to lose more weight, due to using too much soap as according to him, fat people use more soap, which was a big drain on…
We have a lot to celebrate on Australia Day
I enjoy your local news journal. It’s not just the only local news we ever get these days, but more useful coverage than we ever got with the Advocate and…
Slow start not a good sign for the future
In December 2017, the NSW Government’s Department of Planning announced, with great political fanfare, the opening of their Regional Planning office in Mann St, Gosford, attended by Planning Minister Roberts…
Coast should receive its share of government spending
I am writing to your paper in relation to the deterioration of the Central Coast and regional NSW, through the focus on Sydney, and the waste of money being spent…
Community Plan’s Open letter
The Community Plan Central Coast group has sent the following open letter to the Central Coast Council. Those of us who have laboured over these past 15 months to produce…
Case for airport should be closed
The Central Coast Airport continues to be debated into its third decade, and although I generally favour aircraft and airports, I do not favour ratepayers having to foot the bill…
Where are the regional boundaries?
I wonder whether anyone really knows what and where the NSW Central Coast is. For example, the Sydney Television channels display Gosford as being part of Central Coast but vaguely…
Only system changes could make councillors responsive
What Fred Charles fails to grasp (Do we have to wait another three years? Peninsula News, December 11) is that the majority of councillors do not represent the ward they…
Party councillors have been missing in action
In response to Fred Charles, “Do we have to wait another three years?”, how would things have been different when the candidates that were elected didn’t live on the Peninsula?…
The north has third world infrastructure
An attempt by NSW Planning Minister, Mr Anthony Roberts, to supply straight answers regarding the Central Coast Regional Plan 2036 has appalled us at the Northern Lakes Disability Tourism Precinct…
Mount Penang Development Plan 2014 needs to be redrawn
Central Coast Regional Plan 2036–Gateway to the Central Coast A person could not be forgiven for thinking that this is simply a local affair which only affects the people of…
Comments on key Council appointments needed correction
I refer to the article titled ‘Elected Councillors have yet to deal with several critical issues’, published on November 22, and need to correct a number of errors that are…
Gosford Council’s accounts are now magically OK
The draft consolidated accounts for the merged Central Coast Council (business papers, December 7 extraordinary meeting) leave a number of old questions unanswered and raise new ones for rate payers…
Do we have to wait another three years?
For years, the residents of the Peninsula have had to put up with no representative on Council. If, perchance, you did spot a councillor somewhere their response was “I don’t…
Wicks mails out misleading energy information
Lucy Wicks has done residents a disservice by mailing out to residents misleading information about the best solutions for reducing energy costs. Although some good strategies were mentioned, the information…
Zero evidence of council applying itself
Our freshly-minted, shiny-faced, brimful-of-ideas, democratically-elected councillors have now been in office for nearly three months. In that time, they have just managed to discuss (but, of course, not reach a…
Elder abuse needs to be more widely reported
Is it not strange that abuse of the elderly in nursing homes seldom gets reported to the police, or brought to the notice of the media? Some seniors who arrive…
Local tertiary student figures are unacceptable
These are figures from the ABS 2016 Census QuickStats. In the Central Coast, 10,275 people are undertaking studies at a University or tertiary institution. Statistically, this represents 10.9 per cent…