3 July 2023
While Australia and NSW are suffering a critical affordable housing shortage and people are sleeping in their cars at night staff at all levels at Central Coast Council are more interested in trees, squirrel gliders and the swift parrot.
But there’s more! This Council simply does not want any development of any kind if it means cutting down a tree or taking out some so-called endangered species of plant.
Their focus is totally on green space.
Currently a proposal by a group of 50 lan...
3 July 2023
The national RLB Crane® Index for the 1st Quarter of 2023 was revealed last month with the Central Coast recording a net increase in crane numbers bringing the numbers to 13 including one at Glass Apartments The Entrance and one at 35 Scenic Highway, Terrigal.
Meanwhile the crane count by CCBR for Gosford at the end of June across eleven sites was 13.
Rumbalara Residences and Vue Mer sites both have two cranes in operation.
Commenting on activity in Gosford, Raine & Horne Gosford r...
3 July 2023
It was a very small window, just three years, during the time of the McKinna/Anderson Council that would change Gosford.
Prior to that Gosford Council, for over 40 years opposed almost every development proposal that came its way.
Today, we are seeing what that Council achieved.
With twelve cranes working across the CBD, and a few more to come in the next six months, Gosford and the Central Coast is making news on the national RLB Crane Index®. See Cranes Galore in Gosford o...
9 June 2023
As Central Coast Council continues to obstruct Central Coast property developers and builders in approving Development Applications frustrated developers are taking action in the Land and Environment Court.
Currently 15 cases have been listed for mention and another 8 are heading to court.
Apart from industrial land that is depriving Central Coast people of employment there is a huge backlog of residential subdivisions which council is deliberately holding back as well as simple building bl...
9 June 2023
We all accept that the 2016 forced merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils has been a disaster right from start.
The first phase in the amalgamation of Central Coast Council saw the Administrator back off from anything contentious leaving it to the elected council. So the whole organisation virtually went into limbo for eighteen months until we ended up with an elected council.
This council under Mayor Jane Smith, former CEO (part-time) of Community Environment Network, resulted in one of the ...
