Great sense of relief in the community
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…
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Precinct committees will be essential for the new council
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…
Power water and transport need to be in public hands
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…
This is what Open Council means
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,…
Authors congratulated for thought provoking plan
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…
Don’t even consider reopening the project
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…
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…
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…