Posted in Business News

Local property developers, the Brand Group, are expanding their interests in early learning centres with work nearing completion on a new centre at Wamberal that will bring their total number of centres to four with another planned for Holgate. Currently nearing completion, a Sprout Early Learning Centre in High Valley Close, Wamberal will open in January 2022 and will be the second early learning centre for owners Simone and David Brand . The couple’s first venture in early learning ...

University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO has announced the appointment of Professor Michael Bowyer who will take on the role of Interim Executive Dean (ED) Central Coast. To be formally recruited later this year, the Executive Dean Central Coast is a new role reflecting the University’s strong commitment to the Central Coast and the delivery of outstanding educational offerings, research and engagement for the region. This role will be a member of the Unive...

A grant of $900,000 from the NSW Government’s Regional Job Creation Fund will support Western Australian brewery, The Beer Farm Pty Ltd which owns Beerfarm, a brewery at Metricup in the Margaret River Region of WA, to build a new $9 million manufacturing facility at Halloran, near Warnervale. The grant will enable the company to develop the site at 92 Mountain Road to build a brewhouse, manufacturing facility, laboratory and packaging area  as well as upgrades to town water connec...

It was 13th April 2011 and 18,000 people lined the headland from The Skillion at Terrigal to North Avoca and the beach at North Avoca. After a long and arduous fight by a handful of local activists to stop it a team of explosives experts detonated the charges and the former warship HMAS Adelaide creating one of the most successful dive sites on the NSW coast. In the ten years since thousands of divers from Sydney, Canberra and elsewhere including overseas have made the trip to Terrigal to d...

The Greater Sydney Commission (GSC), a statuary planning authority reporting to the NSW Premier on the future of Greater Sydney is advertising for a Executive Director – Central Coast Precinct. This follows an announcement in October 2020 by the Premier that this would be a first-of-its-kind strategy for the GSC to bring new businesses and jobs to the region (see CCBR October 2020). Almost twelve months later no announcement has been made by the Premier as to a Central Coast Strategy....