Council election results are mostly predetermined
On September 9 we will vote for 15 Councillors for the new Central Coast Council. I will be overseas and not a candidate, but I am deeply worried about the…
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New York City view raises questions over skyline
Sitting in my hotel room on the 39th floor of a Manhattan high-rise, provides me with a reasonable perspective of what the Central Coast Council believes are appropriate building heights…
Government office block with water views is a disgrace
In April, Gosford City Council reaffirmed its decision not to build the Performing Arts complex on the waterfront Poppy Field site, as Council’s preferred location is the old Gosford Public…
Inaction is symptomatic of the malaise that has bedevilled Gosford Council
Our Central Coast Council owned, former Broadwater Hotel, at 53-71 Mann St, is currently the 17 year planned location for the new Regional Library, but only approved late last year….
Vote for fresh ideas for the whole Coast
Regarding Mr Bruce Hyland’s letter from the November 14 issue: I must agree with Mr Hyland that if the existing councillors, especially from the Gosford Council, stand for re-election and…
Hospital phone system could be indicator of bigger problems
Recently I endured the nonsense of service at the hands of Gosford Hospital’s telephone equipment. A very old friend is currently incarcerated in one of the wards, so I phoned…
Name suggestion for ATO building
The Australian Taxation Office building on the old Gosford Public School site will be unwanted and out of place. Nonetheless, the building needs a name and one refl ecting its…
Baker St South Rd was set aside as open space
The old Baker St South Rd, which ran along the western edge of the Gosford Public School site, when closed, was absorbed into Leagues Club Field, and an integrated public…
Waterfront is being turned into a parking lot
Whilst the Doma Group’s Mr Gavin Edgar may well argue the zoning and use of the Baker St extension across Gosford City Park to Vaughan Ave (‘”Lucy’s Lane” is a…
Bigger councils are not necessarily better
I just got off the phone to the general manager, Mr Yves Demarais, of Morin Heights, a town an hour north of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Morin Heights is a…
Elected representatives ignore our pleas
Do any of our elected representatives listen to us? Close Manus Island and Nauru detention centres, now. Desperate men, women and children are fleeing conflicts we have been implicated in…
Not all CBD development is good development
I write in response to Stine Haastrup’s online petition to stop the minority ruining Gosford revitalisation as published in Coast Community News. Stine Haastrup believes that readers will accept revitalisation…
Whose fault is it that Gosford is the way it is?
Senator Deborah O’Neill is on the warpath over the proposed access road to the new ATO building on Gosford waterfront (O’Neill calls on Wicks to stop the use of park…
Australia should not be for sale
I am writing to the newspaper in regard to the closing of all our industries in this country, and I ask when is the government going to act on our…
Liberals fail to consider properly and cost accurately
At least one thing is clear. Liberals fail to consider properly and cost accurately. The rail crossing project in Woy Woy was promised in election mode. In governing mode, they…
Use Cairns’ waterfront as an example
I have recently returned from Cairns and I was very interested in what the local council had provided for their residents and for tourists. For about two kilometres, there are…
Does Lucy Wicks support ATO location?
So the ATO obscenity is going ahead, despite a pending court challenge. How did you vote on this, Lucy? Did you listen to your constituents who are vehemently opposed to…
Red light camera required
I regularly see vehicles ignoring the traffic lights on the corner of Henry Parry Dve and Glennie St. Large trucks, such as vehicle transporters, are particularly egregious in this respect,…
Safe walkway required from station to carpark
In response to the Commuter Car Parking at Gosford Station issue, following my previous letter, I believe there is no point complaining if you don’t suggest a reasonable solution. Very…
Urban planning principles subjugated in Gosford
It was interesting to hear from two senior bureaucrats at the JRPP hearing last Thursday (September 15) that the justification for the NSW government building a finance office on Gosford…