Native Title claims cast doubt over arts centre
Unresolved Native Title and Land Title claims could see Crown Land on the Gosford Waterfront frozen for years, making it impossible to build a Regional Performing Arts Centre (RPAC) on…
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Watermark development 80 per cent sold
A boutique residential development on the fringe of the Gosford CBD is expected to be completed in nine months, and 80 per cent of units have already been sold off…
Love and colour added to Gosford CBD
The Gosford Business Improvement District (GBID) will be installing a host of wheelbarrows filled with brightly coloured flowers throughout the CBD to celebrate Spring. GBID has worked hand in hand…
Crown requested JRPP deferral of decision on Department of Finance development
The Joint Regional Planning Panel has deferred its decision on whether or not to approve the $34.2 million NSW Department of Finance office development at 32 Mann St, Gosford. The…
Doma seeks cost guarantee from Land and Environment Court
The Doma Group, the developer of the Australian Tax Office (ATO) building on the corner of Mann St and Georgiana Tce, Gosford, has lodged an application with the Land and…
Gosford’s battlefield
Claims and counter claims in the Land and Environment Court, the JRPP’s decision to defer a ruling on the NSW Finance building, and the growing perception that the Central Coast…
RMS to review 40km school zone at Point Clare
NSW Roads and Maritime Services have informed Point Clare residents that they are reviewing the appropriateness of installing a 40km per hour school zone along Brisbane Water Dve to cover…
Key Council Group Leader Ms Jaeger resigns
Council’s Group Leader of Customer and Community Relationships resigns. Central Coast Council’s Group Leader of Customer and Community Relationships, Ms Judy Jaeger, is leaving Council after almost forty years of…
Heritage-listed Creighton’s Building / Rola back in JRPP
The future of the heritage-listed Creighton’s Building in Mann St Gosford will soon be back in the hands of the Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP). Amended plans were received by…
Wildlife Protection Area still sought after 20 year delay
In May 2016, Saratoga and District Sport and Recreation Association (SDSRA) issued a written request to Central Coast Council to consider, as a matter of urgency, the establishment of a…
West and North Gosford water contract let
Kerroc Constructions Pty Ltd has been granted the contract for Reservoirs Valve Pit Construction in West and North Gosford. Works under the contract form part of the Mardi High Lift…
Tender let for Somersby Industrial Park upgrade
Central Coast Council has accepted a tender from Ourimbah based Milbant Constructions Pty Ltd for Stage One of the Somersby Falls Rd, Somersby Industrial Park upgrade. The Tender Evaluation Report…
Six hour siege results in arrest
A man wanted on two outstanding warrants has been charged following a police operation in West Gosford on August 16. Just before 8:40am on Tuesday morning, offi cers from Brisbane…
Sewer upgrade and Baker St road reserve works have commenced
Sewer upgrade works have resulted in Central Coast Council fencing off the area of the Central Coast Leagues Club Field that it has also described as the Baker St road…
Merindah Apartment building could be the first to start construction
The $72.16 million Merindah Apartment building, at 21 to 23 Mann St Gosford, is the development we have chosen to profile in this edition of Coast Community News as part…
DOMA and Council summonsed over JRPP approval of ATO
The Gosford Waterfront Alliance Inc (GWA) has formally lodged a challenge in the NSW Land and Environment Court to the development consent for Doma to build an Australian Taxation Office…
Gosford City is facing a parking crisis & no plan
Gosford City is facing a parking crisis, with uncertainty, confusion and congestion surrounding the city’s major car parks. With the fate of the 400 free car parks atop Kibbleplex (formerly…
Damning evidence of neglect at mountain dump – FOI reveals
A 2012 NSW Office of Water report – ‘Evidence gathered onsite indicates that the groundwater table has been intercepted by excavation with seepages noted up to approximately half the height…
Rotary Club members to deliver aid to Madagascar
A team from Gosford North Rotary Club will travel to Madagascar to deliver much needed aid to those affected by natural and man-made disasters later this year. Team leader, Mr…
5,000 signature petition to fix The Dip at Wamberal
Member for Robertson , Ms Lucy Wicks, has vowed to take up the cause to fi x the notorious strip of Wamberal’s Willoughby Rd called The Dip. According to Ms…