Something needs to be done about multiple vehicle accidents where one party is clearly in the wrong, but the insurance companies have been placing the innocent party’s contributions on a…
On September 25, in there were great gasps and groans from the community when Clr Jane Smith had the casting vote for Clr Chris Holstein to be Deputy Mayor. This…
Editor’s note: Mr Paul Alexander, CEO of Mangrove Mountain Memorial Club and Golf Course, contacted Central Coast Newspapers as we had published extracts from a letter he recently sent to…
I have been meaning to get in touch with your Editorial team, great work on the Central Coast local election. You were an oasis in a desert. Like many people,…
There is a great sense of relief in the community since the recent Council elections. Some have even said it is like a huge weight has been lifted off their…
Whatever the composition and flavour of the new and first democratically-elected Central Coast Council, it seems clear that its 15 members will face an enormous task. The organisational integration of…
Regarding the power, water and transport situation, it is imperative that they remain in the hands of the people and not private enterprise. It is essential, as those three are…
The Council election results are in and it is plain that Central Coast residents have overwhelmingly voted for change. Both the former Wyong and Gosford Councils had their governing cliques,…
May I congratulate Peninsula News on its sponsorship and publication of the Central Coast Community Plan. It is a thought-provoking document, and the authors are to be commended for their…
Regarding the Coast Community News article on the Mangrove Mountain garbage dump, published July 13, issue 162, I am delighted to see that people are still concerned about this man-made…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…