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Gosford Signs - 50 years one family
3 July 2020
Barney and Leslie Waters started his sign company 50 years ago this year outliving all the competition and are now seeing their three sons taking over as signage heads into a new era of technology. Within a few years of setting up in Gosford, Barney Waters relocated the business to Manns Road, West Gosford where it remained for the next 38 years and the name Gosford Signs would become the best known Sign Company on the Coast until moving to a new factory unit overlooking Manns Road in 200...
How Loss of Profits saved The Bakehouse
3 July 2020
Like all insurance policies the cost always seems to be a waste of money until a loss occurs and many businesses often find themselves underinsured. The Paul and Karen Mackie operate seven Bakehouse Cafes at Fountain Plaza Erina, Green Point Village, Avoca Beach, Lisarow Plaza,  Gorokan,  St Ives and an Artisan Bakehouse Café adjacent to their kitchen facility in the Erina Industrial Area which produces bread, pastries, cakes and pies for their shops. Following the mass...
How much has Council spent on Warnervale Airport?
3 July 2020
First question though.  Why does CCBR keep harping on about Warnervale Airport? Simple. We have been advocating for this airport for over 25 years, on the basis that the Central Coast needs to create real jobs (not government paid jobs) and good quality jobs where local residents can be paid wages comparable with the national standard and get a real career. The issue of Warnervale Airport is symptomatic of the attitudes of most of our political and community leaders whose sole inte...
June long weekend booked out - summer season looking good
3 July 2020
Holiday letting agents at Ettalong and Terrigal are reporting the best June long weekend for years. Stephen Brooks from Accom Holiday Rentals told CCBR that all their properties in Ettalong Beach, Terrigal and Avoca Beach were fully booked. "Due to the COVID19 lockdown we did not plan to let any of our properties," he said. "But at the last minute the restrictions were changed allowing people to get away and the phones started ringing." Mr Brooks said that while it...
"Not happy Minister" as Council loses more planning powers
3 June 2020
The 11 May meeting of Central Coast Council will go down as the day this recalcitrant Council reluctantly agreed to hand over more of their planning powers to the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces. After three years refusing to approve or delaying legitimate development applications that would benefit the regional economy and costing ratepayers hundred of thousands of dollars in unnecessary court costs, the Minister finally called time To put it in the words of Deputy Mayor Jane S...

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