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…
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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…
Not impressed with council’s first 100 days
After reading an article about council’s review of its fi rst hundred days of operation, I suggest that the editor seriously consider a Fact or Fiction page for the Central…
So many kind people in Gosford
Last Friday (September 23) I had a serious fall in Gosford Car Park. I was headed to the station for a day out in Sydney and instead I had an…
Gosford position as the region’s capital questioned
In your article, “Gosford’s battlefield” (22/9/16), you say that “The NSW Government’s plan for the Central Coast has clearly positioned Gosford as the region’s capital”, but there are several points…
Lost touch?
Ms Wicks, are you incapable of listening to the community whom you claim to represent? Or are you merely incapable? Perhaps you ought to remember what happened to some of…
Not impressed by pension delay
Being unable to find part-time work in my field, I have been struggling on the Newstart pittance, and am apparently not disabled enough to qualify for the disability pension. I…
Senator O’Neill reminded “people in glass houses….
I read with interest the media release in the Coast Community News (September 8) from Labor’s Senator Deborah O’Neill giving her opinion on the recent ICAC report, Operation Spicer, and…