planning

97% of Crown Land leases go to those in the know, says Auditor General

The Baird Government is grossly mismanaging the Crown Land estate and the community is being frozen out of decision-making, according to a report from the NSW Auditor General into the Sale and lease of Crown land<http://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/publications/latest-reports/sale-and-lease-of-crown-land>. This report confirms what the Greens and members of the public have been saying for years, that public parks, reserves and foreshores lands are …

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Finance Minister announces plans for the old Gosford school site

The future of the old Gosford School site has been revealed and the vision does not include a regional performing arts centre. Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet today announced a development application would be lodged within weeks to deliver a six-storey, 7000sq m mixed-use commercial building housing 300 finance workers and ground-floor retail and alfresco dining. It will be built next …

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We don’t need to be a backwater

by Perry Gretton Chattanooga was once described as the dirtiest city in America, and with good reason. It was so polluted that people drove through town with headlights on all day long. Yet it has now been twice voted by Outdoor magazine as the best town ever. How did that come about? The short answer is the Gig. This is …

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Thoughts on Wyong and Gosford Council amalgamation – Sue Wynn

Sue Wynn, former Greens Councillor at Wyong, writes about council amalgamation: Here are my thoughts re the amalgamation of Wyong and Gosford Councils and the effect on the communities they are supposed to serve both from my experience as a Councillor from 2008-12 and as a member of the broader community on the Central Coast. Firstly, the only reason WSC …

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Tourism Jobs Vital for Coast

Federal Government Should Protect Sustainable Jobs on Central Coast Central Coast Greens call on Lucy Wicks to act to create and protect real, sustainable tourism jobs on the Central Coast by stepping in to stop the expansion of the Calga sand-quarry which threatens the viability of neighbouring tourism and farming businesses. “We have seen this week stories about tourists by-passing …

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Avoca Beach Decision

Greens Councillor Hillary Morris supported the decision to refuse the application for development of the Avoca Beach Cinema at the Gosford Council meeting on June 9 2015. Her reasons included that there is a significant hurdle for the applicants to overcome with the use of South End Park as parking for theatre attendees. This area is subject to flooding and …

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Inappropriate Development Planned for Mardi

Central Coast Greens are standing up with the local community, especially Hands Off Our Farm (HOOF) against this inappropriate development planned for Mardi. It is wrong because all Coast planning strategies keep residential estates east of the freeway, much of the land is flood prone but no floodplain study has been done and the evaluation of lost vegetation gives the …

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Finalise the Bambara Purchases on the Central Coast

Dear Mr Stokes, Please continue to work with the OEH to speed up the process of purchasing the remaining lots of land on Bambara Rd at Kariong. This has gone on too long. Our community was promised at the last election that the government would protect Bambara, but there have been too many delays. The landowners may be unco-operative, but …

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