Environmental activists within Central Coast Council along with Community Environment Network group have highjacked future plans for Central Coast Airport which will it remain little more than an airstrip. Following the appointment of Rik Hart firstly as CEO and then Administrator of Council undertook new revised Master Plan that was expected to be completed by late 2022 early 2023.  Shrouded in secrecy ever since, Council in late December 2023 announced that it would place an entirely...

Business NSW has announced the appointment of Scott Goold as Regional Director Business NSW Central Coast. Mr Goold joins the organisation after three years with the NSW Department of Regional NSW where his most recent appointment was as Deputy Director Regional Development. A resident of the Central Coast he comes to the position with over 30 years’ experience at senior levels with major corporates and for a short time in 2020 was Business Development Manager at Central Coast Council...

Planning is well underway for the upcoming Central Coast Industry Festival. Exhibitor registrations were extended due to the Christmas holiday break but the organisers, Central Coast Industry Connect (CCIC), are pleased to advise that they have reached their quota of exhibitors. To be held on the 6th and 7th March 2024 at Mingara, the Festival has attracted a broad range of exhibitors covering well known manufacturers like Sanitarium and Mars Food to organisations like 4id Solutions who prov...

Small business will be “sent to the wall” by the complex and unworkable industrial relations changes in the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill, says the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia. The complex legislation has become the number one threat to the sector, COSBOA says. It said the latest tranche of IR revisions were being rammed through the lower house of parliament despite the concerns of small business and called on the Senate to reject the legislatio...

Plans by Woolworths to expand their Distribution Centre at Warnervale have been stymied by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Tanya Plibersek after a so called ‘field of critically endangered orchids’ was found growing in a lawn planted on the site by the company. Ms Plibersek made her decision to block the expansion in mid-December, with her declaration that the development would have “clearly unacceptable impacts” on the environment made public last week. Ac...